Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I want to talk about the bill that we want to vote on right now and why it is so important that we pass it. For my part, what I work on is support for our farmers and our ranchers, and that is exactly what we have put in this bill is help and support for our farmers and ranchers, for rural America. And yet, my understanding is that Democrats are objecting to the help and support that we have put in this bill for our farmers and ranchers. Last week, the Department of Homeland Security recognized that agriculture--our supply of food, fiber, and feed--is one of our Nation's critical industries. Our country has been blessed with an abundant, affordable, and safe food supply that we rarely stop to notice but that we depend on every single day and we certainly depend on at this time with this pandemic. The good news is, our farmers and ranchers, our ag sector, are out there working every day, carrying on this critical work of ensuring that we have the food on our grocery shelves throughout this pandemic. The bad news is, the farm economy, already facing a number of years of declining income, has taken a further nosedive on account of the coronavirus. So we have put forward assistance to make sure we address that. Let me just give you one example, though, of the difficulty faced in farm country, in rural America.…”