Steve Southerland: “This Administration speaks a lot about helping rural communities. Well, the rural communities in my district, they just…”

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

Today marks the 50th anniversary of America's war on poverty. While this war may have been launched with the best of intentions, it is clear we are engaged in a battle of attrition that has left more Americans in poverty than at any point…

Quit talking about it and show us. Let our people work.

This appears to me, Mr. Chairman, to be a solution looking for a problem.