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Kevin Roberts: “I encourage my colleagues to join with me to oppose the amendment. The amendment would provide government loans for…”

On the recordJune 20, 2012
I encourage my colleagues to join with me to oppose the amendment. The amendment would provide government loans for brick-and-mortar projects, including food refrigeration capacity. We are talking about refrigerators--big refrigerators. At a time when we are working to streamline current programs and reduce the size of government, I am concerned we would be expanding the size to serve a new pool of applicants competing for very limited resources at the Department of Agriculture. In this regard, the gleaners would be taken to the cleaners. I encourage my colleagues to oppose the amendment.
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