Daily Review Atlas: Bustos Column: A farm bill that helps all
As a young girl growing up in central Illinois, few things made me happier than my family’s trips to my grandparents’ farm in Milford. I’d spend hours outside on the farm, playing with the baby pigs while taking in the sights, sounds, and yes, the smells. My grandparents, aunts, uncles and nearly every one of […]
Galesburg Register Mail: Local woman recalls ‘remarkable’ experience
GALESBURG — While millions of Americans tuned in to President Obama’s Sate of the Union address, Pam Davidson watched live from the gallery. At the invitation of Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-East Moline, Davidson, who serves on the Knox County Board, traveled to the nation’s capital to attend the address and see it from a different […]
Quad-City Times: Bustos, Loebsack vote for farm bill
Reps. Dave Loebsack, D-Iowa, and Cheri Bustos, D-Ill., both voted for the farm bill that passed the House on Wednesday by a 251-166 vote. Bustos, a member of the Agriculture Committee, said the bill would provide certainty for the farm sector. She noted it contains language she sponsored that requires the U.S. Department of Agriculture […]
Moline Dispatch/Argus: Displaced Maytag worker is Bustos’ guest
Pamela Davidson, of Galesburg, will accompany U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-East Moline, to the State of the Union address on Tuesday. “Each of us gets one ticket to bring whoever we’d like to attend the State of the Union,” Rep. Bustos said Saturday morning at her office in Rock Island. “We put a lot of […]