[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 1]
[Senate]
[Pages 1150-1151]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        TRIBUTE TO ZIPPY DUVALL

  Mr. ISAKSON. Mr. President, first of all, I am privileged and honored 
to commend Zippy Duvall, a great Georgian who just a few weeks ago was 
elected, in the 97th year of the American Farm Bureau, as its 12th 
president. Zippy has been the president of the Georgia Farm Bureau 
since 2006. He has been a leader in our State for decades, and I am so 
proud he will now represent agriculture throughout our country. He 
himself is a cattleman. He raises hay. He raises broilers. He has run 
the Farm Bureau and been a great advocate for agriculture and farming 
in our State.
  He and his wife Bonnie have four children and three grandchildren. He 
serves on the Farmers Bank board. He serves as the president of the 
Georgia Farm Bureau. He serves on the local electric membership 
corporation board. He serves on the soil and water conservation board. 
He is a total public servant, and he is an outstanding advocate for 
agriculture and an outstanding representative of our State.
  The best example of Zippy Duvall that I know is, if you ride through 
South Georgia--the heart of agriculture country in my State--and you 
look at all the bumper stickers on all the pickup trucks, you will see 
a unique bumper sticker--not mine, not a Member of Congress's, not the 
Governor's, but a bumper sticker that says very simply ``Ditch the 
Rule.'' Zippy Duvall was one of the leaders in our country who took on 
the EPA to stop from going into place the waters of the U.S.A. 
regulations that would hurt agriculture so desperately in our State. 
That bumper sticker became a slogan for agriculture all over the 
country, and farmers worked together to advocate on behalf of better 
agriculture without an overly oppressive EPA effect.
  I am proud to come to the floor today and recognize a member of my 
State, a great farmer in Georgia, and a great citizen of our country. 
He will be the 12th president of the American Farm Bureau, and he will 
be the best president of the American Farm Bureau. I commend him and 
his family for all their sacrifice and effort. I wish him the very best 
of luck in his endeavors as president of the American Farm Bureau 
Federation.

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