GOP: Support Our Farmers

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Last week, Speaker of the House and Representative of California’s 20th Congressional District, Kevin McCarthy, attended the World Ag Expo in Tulare, California.

McCarthy was Tuesday’s KVML “Newsmaker of the Day”.

Throughout his visit, he offered keynote remarks, fired the ceremonial cannon to open the Expo, hosted a media availability with fellow Members of Congress, and participated in a Farm Bill Listening Session to hear about the priorities of local agricultural producers.

Speaker McCarthy shared the following sentiments:

“When I look around the World Ag Expo, I see hardworking Americans – I see my neighbors, I see people who meticulously till the ground, tend their orchards, and make art.

But in order to ensure that we are not destroying this art, we must not only increase water storage to capture more water during wet years so that this critical resource doesn’t run off into the ocean, but we must also end government-imposed manmade droughts.

We must put people above fish so that our communities get the water they contract and pay for.

And we must support our farmers at the highest levels of government by advancing a Farm Bill. I look forward to working with my colleagues and local stakeholders to develop the best legislation that works for farmers in the Central Valley, California, and the United States.

I am proud to be a Speaker from the Central Valley, and I am committed to working in a bipartisan fashion to empower our agricultural producers who feed the world.”

The “Newsmaker of the Day” is heard every weekday morning at 6:45, 7:45 and 8:45 on AM 1450 and FM 102.7 KVML.