[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19840]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




            FARMERS CONFRONTED BY OUT-OF-CONTROL REGULATION

  (Mr. HULTGREN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. HULTGREN. Mr. Speaker, last week the Illinois Farm Bureau 
Federation polled its members about the long-term challenges 
confronting them. It shouldn't surprise anyone that the number one 
thing that they named is government regulation. After all, Washington 
bureaucrats too often know nothing about rural America and challenges 
confronting our farming families. They've sought to burden them with 
new regulations on everything from spilt milk to dust.
  But while those bureaucrats are trying to generate more regulations, 
here in the House we're working hard to cut it back. This year, we have 
passed numerous pieces of legislation to roll back the most egregious 
rules proposed by the EPA and others to ensure that America's family 
farmers have the regulatory certainty they need to survive and thrive 
over the next decade and beyond.
  Now it's time for the Senate to act.

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