Mike Pompeo: “I thank the chairman for yielding. This is a great day for rural America. H.R. 1633 is going to do what we've been…”

“I thank the chairman for yielding. This is a great day for rural America. H.R. 1633 is going to do what we've been trying to do for a long time, during my entire 11 months in the United States Congress, which is to provide just a little bit of certainty for those folks who are out there trying to create jobs, trying to create food for America, trying to do the things that we've done in the rural parts of our country for so long. The truth is the other side continues to say we are shooting the fairy dust and talking about Tinker Bell. I can assure you that I'm not amused. I can assure you that the 500 folks with whom I met just 2 weeks ago now at the Kansas Farm Bureau meeting were not amused either. {time} 1200 We understand that the very real risk of Lisa Jackson and the Environmental Protection Agency beginning to clamp down on farm dust still exists. We worked in our committee diligently. There were some valid concerns raised by the folks on the other side, and we endeavored, Mr. Chairman, at every moment to try and meet those concerns. We offered amendments. I offered an amendment in the nature of a full substitute which tried to address some of the concerns that the opposition expressed. The truth is they just want to leave our farmers and our ranchers and our agricultural community at the whim of the EPA. That's not the place to put good, hardworking Americans who go out there every day trying to do the right thing.…”