Joe Neguse actually said...

"Generates more than $40 billion in economic activity annually. It supports more than 170,000 jobs with cattle and calves making up over 50 percent of all the receipts."

"I would just think is something that this Congress could, I would hope, rally around."

"I think agriculture--the industry, as I see it, is saying that it is not seasonal in nature..."

"But, fundamentally, they are only as good as their backbone, which is their employees--the farm workers who work in their fields."