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On the recordDecember 15, 2010
Well, in the succeeding generations, the dream was passed on even though the equity was not, because they didn't build the equity but the dream was there. The obligation and the duty and the appreciation for America embracing my ancestors coming here was passed on to me, and it said stand up for this United States of America, this free enterprise dream. And today, the families that it's worked out for, those who have made that investment, that hung on to that land, that spent two or three generations or more building a family farm--and let's say now, today, it's not 160 acres that it takes to sustain a family but 1,000 or 1,500 acres that it takes to sustain a family. And that's more accurate. {time} 2340 Let's just say that that unit that was put together, two sections of land now, 640 acres a section, 1,280 acres altogether. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
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Steve King
Republican · Iowa

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