Political Quotes

“you folks on the other side of the aisle, the House Agriculture Committee voted out the bill that Senator Warnock successfully defended. That same House Agriculture Committee voted out a bipartisan bill that had the support of Congressman Feenstra of Iowa and Congresswoman Axne of Iowa. It got out of committee, and then you know what? The Rules Committee took it out of this bill that came over here. So I am asking for the reconsideration of that. This amendment does this: It makes farmers in Iowa that were hit by the derecho wind--and that is a wind that you don't predict like you do a tornado, and it just crops up, 150 miles long and 30 miles wide. It destroyed 855,000 acres of corn, laid it flat. And if it was meteoric, you still couldn't harvest it. So most of it was plowed under. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator's time has expired.”