Representative Jason R. Bunting, one of seven farmers in the House Republican caucus, soon joined Leader Hammond, issuing a challenge to Democrats to do more than give speeches, and actually take action to help struggling Illinois farm families.
“Man, I am truly, truly feeling the agricultural love on the floor today,” he began.
Bunting mentioned that he is a sixth-generation family farmer, hoping to be raising the seventh. He mentioned his kids, who “woke up this morning to tend to our livestock, to check the farm, go back into the house, get dressed up for school while their father is down here fighting for rural Illinois.”
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