Political Quotes

“I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 4238, which designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 930 39th Avenue in Greeley, Colorado as the W.D. Farr Post Office Building. William Davin ``W.D.'' Farr was once described by the president of Colorado State University as ``one of the true giants in Colorado history and in the history of the modern American West.'' Mr. Farr was born in Greeley, Colorado, in 1910 and was proudly a third-generation Coloradan, pioneer rancher, statesman, and banker. When he was 15 years old, he began working on a cattle ranch in western Colorado. This job was the first of many during his lifetime of work in agriculture. As he became more involved in ranching, he looked at many ways to improve and develop the business of cattle feeding. He was famous for his Greeley T-Bone Club, where he and several other ranchers in Greeley would have a steak dinner and discuss ways they could improve cattle ranching. One of his first inventions helped aid cattle ranchers by making the cattle feeding process significantly more efficient and less wasteful. During his work in the cattle industry, he became very involved in bringing water to dry regions of Colorado. He did extensive work on behalf of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project, which delivered water from the Colorado River to various regions of Colorado that needed water.…”