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On the recordAugust 24, 2011
I am always fond of telling the National Cotton Council and my southern colleagues that when Stephen Foster wrote that little song, Those Old Cotton Fields Back Home, he was talking about Kansas.
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Pat Roberts
Republican · Kansas

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Roberts humorously connects a song about cotton to Kansas.

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