[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19007]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        A WORD CALLED ``IRONY''

  (Mr. REHBERG asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. REHBERG. Mr. Speaker, I want to talk today about a word called 
``irony.'' Webster's dictionary says irony is when there is an 
incongruity between the actual and the expected result of events.
  Unfortunately, Mr. Speaker, we have a prime case of this in my State. 
The people who have produced food for all of us in this country for our 
whole lives, farmers and ranchers, are now having a hard time affording 
food themselves. The very hard-working people who made this country the 
breadbasket of the world now cannot afford bread themselves.
  That is a pretty good example of an irony; is it not? It is also a 
good example of a cruel irony.
  Mr. Speaker, I implore the Members of this House to finally hear our 
plea for assistance for drought-stricken farmers and ranchers, and 
quickly pass an agriculture disaster assistance package for crop years 
2001 and 2002.

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