As Cong. Cheri Bustos leaves Congress, she says she hopes the Agriculture Committee she served on works on crop insurance in 2023. It’s time for negotiations on another farm bill.
Bustos says there were 9,600 family farms in her western Illinois district. The Quad Cities Democrat says serving on the ag committee was personal too, because of so many people in her family being farmers. She was elected to Congress in 2012 and chose not to run for reelection this year.