"Farmworkers play a critical role in ensuring our domestic food supply is both secure and sustainable."
"The burden of unsafe and unaffordable water disproportionately impacts lower income communities and communities of color."
"That's why I've introduced the Fairness for Farmworkers Act, last Congress, that would have guaranteed overtime."
"As we speak, I believe the House of Representatives is taking up this debt limit deal."
"Let's be real. Republicans said the same thing about the lifting of Title 42, and the surge did not happen."
"During the COVID pandemic, Congress recognized the risk of impending water shut offs and growing debt nationwide."
"So if that is limited on the Federal side, separate and apart from a dollar, a grant, or a favorable loan, this is hurting more than it is helping."
"Thank you, Mr. Chair. Let me begin with a question for Judge de Alba."
"What used to be a roughly narrow and defined 'wildfire season' no longer applies."
"Let's be clear. That the hostages they're taking, or threatening to take isn't the federal government, it's the American people, including their own constituents. A default would plunge our economy in..."
"But to hold hostage for a budget conversation is wrong, and the exact budget plan not being offered or suggested, or considered, but passed by House Republicans would only make a horrible, horrible si..."