Political Quotes

“I want to thank my colleague from Florida, Representative Neal Dunn, who is not only a great colleague but a great friend. Madam Speaker, it is not just Hurricane Matthew--pardon me, Hurricane Michael. In my district we had Hurricane Matthew in 2016--but it is also Hurricane Florence that devastated southeastern North Carolina and many other areas this past fall as well. A lot of the previous speakers, colleagues who have come before me here today have talked about the need for disaster assistance, and they are exactly right. I want to complement what they have said, supplement what they have said, and paint a little bit of a broader picture here. You have got to understand that agriculture, in particular, has faced 5 years of really, really low prices; so farmers, whether they are in North Carolina and have suffered from the flood of Hurricane Florence, or whether they are in Georgia or Florida or anywhere else and have suffered from Hurricane Michael, or the floods in Nebraska, for example, they have no equity left. They have suffered 5 years of really, really low prices. We had a farm bill in place that, quite honestly, was not adequate in terms of the safety net that was in place and, as a result, they have no equity.…”