Mike Bost

And then I want to go down the panel with the same question. But the only thing I would say is, is one thing that we are known for, and that is the big fear, is that if we do nothing, nothing will be done.

I have many veterans in my district who have spoken to me repeatedly about this issue.

This bill enjoys broad bipartisan support from this Congress and I will say I am strongly supportive.

H.R. 299, the Blue Water Veterans--Navy Vietnam Veterans Act is brought forward by Representative Valadao, who I see has already joined us and is on the first panel.

The seven bills we will talk about today address issues that are very important to veterans and their families.

As a lender, do you believe that the current limits on FSA guaranteed loans are adequate to support the needs of the modern farmer?

You can learn a lot when you listen. During times like these, when political infighting makes it difficult to hear everyone's voice, we need to try even harder. Today I would like to encourage all of my constituents in the Illinois 12th…

Thank you for the opportunity to serve on this committee. It is kind of a committee that is near and dear to my heart.

What we are doing is not any intention to privatize or anything like that.

I am a little concerned, and the Department itself has estimated that it can treat and cure most of the remaining 124,000 diagnosed cases of hepatitis C within the next 3 years.

It is a republic, Madam, if you can keep it.

I will be a morally religious person that can self-govern.

What are you willing to do to defend this Constitution?

We've killed 57 million babies in 43 years.

Only a moral or religious people can self-govern.

If we don't, then we'll lose the ability to self-govern and we'll lose this republic.

It's not partisan; it's a group of people that understand the issues and want to work forward to make it better.

If we don't do that, then, at some point, the history of this nation will be written in the sins of that long, slow, miserable decline into oblivion.

Be that keeper of the republic that each of us has to be.

We can't fix it in Congress or the state House or the local county commissioners courts or city councils.

A republic, if you can keep it.

John Adams wrote that only a moral and religious people can self-govern. And amoral and immoral people have to have a different scheme altogether, because they will not voluntarily comply with the laws and rules that confront them, even…

As my colleagues and I examine changes to the farm bill, the current farm bill, you can hate it or you can love it. But it delivers the most abundant and safest and affordable food and fiber supply of any developed country in the world.

What are we asking God to bless and what's my role in reclaiming that moral high ground.

We have to step into the breach.