Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I thank the Senator from Indiana for yielding. Yesterday, in Norton, KS, the temperature was 118. I read the story where they just watched the thermometer go up degree by degree, and it has now been more than a month in which the temperatures in our State have exceeded 100 degrees. Certainly, it has been more than a month in which we have had little or no rainfall in most places across the State. The drought is real, and it puts people in a different mood. There is always optimism on a farm, optimism on a ranch. My small business men and women in Kansas are optimistic that when they get up and go to work every day, it will be a better day at the end of the day, and tomorrow will be better than today, and next month will be better than this month. I can tell you, with the weather pattern we have had in the Midwest this summer the optimism begins to disappear. Today we have come to learn just one more thing that is now going to be oppressive to farmers and ranchers and small business men and women in Kansas and across the country. We started this year with a discussion about something the Department of Labor did--the proposed rules to prohibit restricting a young person from working on a family farm. We have had a series of regulations from the EPA and others that make it so difficult for a small businessperson or a farmer to succeed.…”