I want to also welcome Mr. Smith to the U.S. House of Representatives. Lacy said that he is a fourth-generation farmer, but he is actually a seventh-generation Missourian, and he has been living on the same farm that his great-grandfather once lived on. He graduated from my alma mater, the University of Missouri, and he has been involved in agriculture and practicing law. As a farmer, I don't think we can ever have enough farmers in this body. Mr. Speaker, Missouri is known as the ``Show-Me'' State, and last night, Jason Smith won a special election with over 67 percent of the vote, and I think that shows that he is truly the Representative of the Eighth District of the State of Missouri. So it gives me a great deal of pleasure to yield to the gentleman from the Eighth District of Missouri, Jason Smith.
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