Mike Bost actually said...

"This shows why rural economic development is so important to supporting agriculture."

"I want to thank you for bringing this up before the Subcommittee, and I would encourage everybody for an aye vote to try to move it on to the Full Committee."

"It seems to me that small farmers and ranchers have been neglected for too long."

"Farming looks mighty easy when the plow is a pencil and you are a thousand miles from a corn field."