David Valadao: “I would like to begin by thanking so many on both sides of the aisle who worked very hard on this legislation. We spent…”

“I would like to begin by thanking so many on both sides of the aisle who worked very hard on this legislation. We spent months working on this. We have crafted it throughout the beginning of this Congress, and it has been an important bill. It is going to continue to be an important bill. We look forward to seeing who has the courage to stand up and actually vote to help the folks of California. When we see the situation that is going on out there in the valley and we see the faces of these people standing in the food lines, the people who have worked so hard for so many years to help build farms, to help build businesses for their families and we see those farmworkers who have come and had the opportunity to put their kids through school. Many of them end up in really great places, some of them even in Congress, like myself. You see so many different opportunities that come from the valley. When we have a situation like we have today, where we have literally been cut off from water, we have had years in the past decade where we have had abundance of water and abundance of snowpack, and we still get a small fraction of the contracted amounts. Now, today, we are down to zero. When people speak of conservation, we have got to find a way to conserve water, we have got to find a way to save water, absolutely. We have done those things.…”