Eric Sorensen actually said...

"The place is special, and it includes my district in northwestern Illinois."

"The region features extremely productive, but very fragile soils vulnerable to erosion."

"I was raised in abject rural poverty by a single mother. I was on what were actually food stamps at the time."

"I don't believe that the fearmongering with those in most need by playing partisan politics with disingenuous talking points, I think that is neither productive or appropriate for this Committee, and ..."