Jack Kingston: “Relief for farmers now in the Southeast and the Midwest particularly. We have had a tremendous farm disaster. I…”

“Relief for farmers now in the Southeast and the Midwest particularly. We have had a tremendous farm disaster. I represent Georgia, and I represent coastal and agrarian Georgia, and one of the things that is easy after a hurricane, to get relief because there is pictures of buildings that have blown over and boats in the middle of the street and so forth. Unfortunately the farm disaster, often you cannot see it unless you have a farmer out there in the field and you know what an undeveloped cotton boll looks like, or you know how big a soybean or a peanut should be at a certain time of year, and you know when it is not that big. And so in Georgia $700 million of agriculture disaster is a tremendous drain on the moms and dads who are in the farming business, the farm families, but also important to the local economies in the small town, the banks, the implement dealers, the county commissions, and the school boards and so forth. This has some major farm relief. It also has a little bit of tax relief for farms.”