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Noem Speaks, Adds Three Amendments to Farm Bill

Rep. Kristi Noem can sure speak up when she knows the press and the voters are watching. In one marathon hearing Wednesday, our one and only Congresswoman cleared her Fox News calendar and quadrupled the number of statements she's made in a year on the House Agriculture Committee. She proposed three amendments Wednesday to the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act, the new farm bill. Her proposals:

  1. Rep. Noem expands government by creating an Office of Tribal Relations within the USDA.
  2. To re-establish her anti-government cred, Rep. Noem expands the definition of "smaller" forest-thinning/fuel-reduction projects from 1,000 acres to 10,000 acres (from about one and a half square miles to a bit less than 16 square miles) and exempts such projects from administrative review (because Kristi knows better than the professionals in the Forest Service). This measure is part of Noem's new obsession with the pine beetle, which starts to fly in the Black Hills next week.
  3. Someone handed Kristi a third amendment to read: Arkansas Rep. Rick Crawford's proposal to maintain funding for projects already receiving funds from the Biomass Crop Assistance Program. (Note the official text was submitted with Rep. Crawford's name on it; someone in House Ag scratched out Crawford's name and penciled in Noem's.)

Noem used the phrase "common sense" in two of her three committee comments Wednesday, which for her is rationalizing code for, "Someone handed wrote this for me, I don't have time to really study it, so it just must make sense."

Noem also calls it "common sense" to cut $16 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (a.k.a. food stamps)... because common sense says we should balance the budget on the backs of hungry people.

6 Comments

  1. Rorschach 2012.07.13

    So fiscally, her first amendment adds bureacracy and spending. Her second amendment may or may not be fiscally neutral. And her third amendment (or Rep. Crawford's amendment) prevents cuts in spending. So much for fiscal conservative.

    How many times did Rep. Noem say, "at the end of the day" in her prepared statements?

  2. larry kurtz 2012.07.13

    Anyone hear Dakota Digest with Frank Carroll on Bill Janklow's idea of public radio?

    His common sense explanation of why old growth trees are at risk to Rep. Noem's campaign contributors who bear no responsibility for habitat restoration after taking the money trees and leaving the doghair.

  3. larry kurtz 2012.07.13

    ..is told in complete sentences.

  4. larry kurtz 2012.07.13

    (note that Rep. Noem's political party also goes out of its way to defund public radio in efforts to expose ethical and moral wrongdoing.)

  5. larry kurtz 2012.07.13

    911? send the sentence nazis to this addresssss

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