The presiding officer duly noted. Mr. Lankford mr. President , i want to be able to address this body to talk about an issue that we dont talk about enough, the deficit. Its an issue for whatever reason weve stopped talking about in washington, d. C. Were talking about tax policy, as we should. Were talking about Disaster Relief areas, which we should. Talking about health policies, which we should. A lot of other things. We have stopped talking about debt and deficit. I think thats a mistake for us. See, as the trend has moved, since 2011, at a high point when the deficit spending that year was 1. 3 trillion in overspending in a single year. Since that point, deficits have gone down a little bit each year until 2015. In 2016, our deficit number, thats a single year overspending started going back up. It went up in 2016. It went up again in 2017. Turning the wrong direction. As you will recall and as many people in this body would recall, deficits were a major topic for us starting in
Recruit a new generation of farmers and ranchers, then we must take actions that will improve the quality of life in Rural Communities. Thats why why i offered a number of provisions specifically to recruit beginning farmers and ranchers. The first would reduce the cost of Crop Insurance for beginning farmers by 10 . The second would make it easier for beginning producers to graze livestock on conservation reserve programs. In this bill we put in place a new Dairy Program that helps Dairy Farmers in minnesota and across the country that have struggled with prices, with feed costs and we have seen probably that sector of the Agriculture Community hit harder than any other. Crops have had their droughts, weve seen wet springs that have hurt many of our farmers. Weve seen the blizzard i mentioned in south dakota that killed our cattle. Weve seen trade barriers put up in other countries that shut down the markets. But i would still say the hardest hit of any sector of our Agricultural Comm
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