Steve Southerland: “I think it is sad that we have gotten to the point that the government feels that it is its responsibility to inject its…”

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 336, line 8, strike ``$375,000,000'' and insert ``$372,000,000''. At the end of subtitle A of title…

we cannot increase taxes on hardworking families that are making their living fishing, and yet we have the ability to go out and remove reefs with explosives that kill tens of thousands of fish

I mean I look at when you have had 50 percent reduction in water flows, it is having a--you did allude to the oyster industry down in Apalachicola. That is the heart of my district.

With food stamp usage now cutting a swath well into the middle class, is it fair to ask if we were anticipating that average Americans would be buying each other their groceries through the Federal Government?