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W. Todd Akin: I have to wonder, particularly of the people out in my State of Missouri, what they'll be thinking when they find out…

On the recordMarch 2, 2011
I have to wonder, particularly of the people out in my State of Missouri, what they'll be thinking when they find out that $3 million of their money is being used to come up with a program to take care of spilled milk. I don't know how you found this treasure out. I heard there was another one that was similar. I think it was an EPA requirement that you couldn't have rogue dust. So, if you're a farmer, you can't farm with rogue dust, which is dust that comes off your property and goes over onto somebody else's property. It makes me think that whoever is writing these regulations lives in one of these office buildings downtown here. If there happens to be anybody who is working on the rogue dust program, I'm sure that's another $3 million wonder--or maybe worse--just to go out on a combine in the good old State of Missouri and just run down a couple of rows of corn and see what happens when that old, dusty corn hits the combine and how they're supposed to keep all that dust right over their own properties. So that's another one of these examples. I think Ronald Reagan talked about the fact that we're buying too much government, and that's what we've been doing these last number of months. The point of the matter is, when you start cutting a lot of this government trash, you're going to create jobs in a couple of ways.…
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W. Todd Akin
Missouri
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Mar 2, 2011

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The speaker criticizes government spending on unnecessary regulations affecting farmers.

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