I just want to dispel the notion that any community is being helped by being treated differently.
We are wasting precious government resources on low level drug offenders.
The Major Drug Traffic and Prosecution Act would eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses and redirect Fe...
You know, just recently, with Speaker Pelosi's leadership, we rammed through legislation that would dramatically increas...
The dairy industry in the United States is in meltdown, let's make no mistake about that.
I have had two suicides in the San Joaquin Valley and areas among dairymen that Congressman Cardoza, Nunes and I represe...
I mean, the costs they are receiving for their milk at $9 to $10 per hundredweight and their input costs are $17 per hun...
I think more needs to be followed up in that area.
Do you agree that a better Federal Dairy Price Support Program should be updated to account for the production costs?
Clearly, the tools that they have at hand are not working.
I think we need to sit down and consider what else could be done to help address this situation.
But I do believe in California we need to become more innovative. The markets are there.
I would like to see California join the Federal Order if the incentives are put in place.
Dairy producers have to get together.
I mean, we could lose 20 or 25 percent of the dairy industry in California--I don't know what the estimates would be nat...
I think we have to restructure the entire Federal Order.
What it does add up to is a lot of greed and corruption.
Someone is lying about this surplus thing or maybe it has something to do with the record amount of protein concentrates...
