Alex Padilla actually said...

"As members of this Committee we need to obviously consider the economic impacts of extreme weather events holistically."

"But sadly I think it's a little out of the expertise, or the attention of a lot of federal employees because of the programs, the agency that they work in."

"In the example I gave is when the floods right, that leads to lost crops, so therefore less of a need for the workforce to harvest."

"I think that might even have been intentional."