Political Quotes

“Madam Chair, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California (Mr. LaMalfa). Mr. LaMALFA. Madam Chair, I appreciate Mr. Neguse working on this legislation here, but to have this all in a catchall bill--in my home State of California, the two biggest things going on are wildfire and drought, other than politics. So, to have so little time to put this together, I wish we had more time to work on this. I appreciate that he included a small piece on biochar that I was working on, but the big picture here is the drought is affecting so much of my State. These crops listed here, many of them 100 percent of what is used in the United States. Hundreds of thousands of acres are being left out. The people in this country will not see these crops come from California or the U.S. They will come from other countries if we get them at all. On the forestry side, I had the Dixie fire last year. That was a million acres. Yet, we are going to take the power away from the Forest Service, which already moves at a glacial pace of 1 percent per year under their 10-year plan of treating forests lands--take away 600 of their staff and basically just make it that much slower for the Forest Service to respond. Between the drought and the weaponizing, possibly, of monitoring against farmers the water supply, we are going backward on this. So, I am disappointed. {time} 1230”