Chuck Grassley: “I want to congratulate an Iowan, Cara Miller, on her retirement. For the last decade, Cara has led Silos & Smokestacks…”

“I want to congratulate an Iowan, Cara Miller, on her retirement. For the last decade, Cara has led Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area in the State of Iowa as its president. For those who don't know, Silos & Smokestacks is a 37-county, congressionally designated heritage area that shares a rich history of American agriculture. Mr. President, I am going to put a short list of some of the historical things that are in Silos & Smokestacks in the Record. I just would like to name a couple of these because there are dozens of them, and I am only going to submit a list of about 10. One is the childhood home and birthplace farm of Dr. Norman Borlaug, famous for the Green Revolution because of the research that he did to take disease out of wheat and rice that increased production very much. Another one is the home of Carrie Lane Chapman, one of the original suffragists. Her home was in Iowa, and that is one of these sites as well. Another one would be the REA Power Plant Museum because the first rural electric cooperative plant west of the Mississippi was in Iowa.”