Sherrod Brown: “I rise in opposition to the Coburn amendment's 41 percent of a $1 billion cut to USDA's rural development mission.…”

“I rise in opposition to the Coburn amendment's 41 percent of a $1 billion cut to USDA's rural development mission. Everyone in this Chamber talks about job growth, as we should--some of us want to do some more specific things than others perhaps--but we have to ask the question: If we are going to consider a 40-percent cut to rural development, how does a small town recruit a 21st-century business or support entrepreneurs when the best it can offer is dial-up Internet access? How does a rural village in Allen County, OH, finance a $2\1/2\ million water system without some kind of grant or loan? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Time in opposition to the amendment has expired.”