David Valadao

What do you mean as the people also get for this investment? Do we get a high-speed rail service?

I have only been in Congress for about 5 months, but I served 2 years before that in the California State Legislature.

It seems a lot of the concern is getting San Francisco and L.A. connected in a quick manner.

Joe Simitian actually did a wonderful job on the floor if anybody has a chance to listen to his speech, because he has always been a supporter. But he voted against the project when I was there.

When I hear from teachers and public safety officials and we talk from all the different Government agencies where we have seen so many cuts and so many things that affected people in their everyday lives.

Have you done an independent risk analysis for this first construction segment?

We want to work with them and our State transportation authority to make sure that rail service continues there.

Would you build the first section from Fresno to Bakersfield if you knew there was never going to be any additional funding?

We do not have any plans to stop Amtrak service--it is not ours to stop--between Corcoran, Wasco, and--

There is still no money to fund anything connecting the southern tip of this with any of the population south of Bakersfield--Palmdale, L.A., nothing.

It really started to scare those constituents because it is a way that they were able to get up to Hanford or Fresno to see doctors.

Why did the Authority reject the offer from the French high-speed rail company, and supposedly one of the best in the world?

As I have explained numerous times in Kings County, we support the continuation of rail service on those smaller stations.

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the budget proposes a substantial reduction in the Self-Help Housing Program.

If we continue to grow the supply of legal temporary workers past the 156,000 number to match closer to that actual demand for all agriculture workers, would we continue to see these increases in agricultural output?

Did you plan for this? Did you budget for this accordingly, or did you wait for the last minute and kind of take a wait-and-see approach?

I am sorry, I don't fully understand the reasoning behind the WIC program using an outdated set of dietary guidelines.

I agree, Congress needs to get serious about our Nation's irresponsible spending; however, broad-based, automatic spending cuts and tax increases are not the way to get our fiscal House in order. This week, the administration warned of the…

Not only do we need to eliminate duplication within each office and departments, we also need to eliminate duplicative efforts across different legislative branch offices.

What is not mission critical?