DENNIS A. CARDOZA: “Despite the collapsing economy and rising crime, higher poverty levels in my district, the Central Valley receives only…”

As we all know, our country is facing enormous troubles like we have not seen since the Great Depression. At the national level, there is clear evidence that some of the actions that the Democratic Congress have taken are, in fact…

My objective today is straightforward. We are here to assess what is working, what is not working and how we can improve upon the historic 2008 Farm Bill effort on behalf of specialty crops and organic agriculture.

I would like to take this time to correct the statistics and the statements that we just heard from my colleague from North Carolina. My colleague forgets that in the Clinton administration we created-- not ``we,'' because I wasn't…

Congressional Republicans threaten to take us back to the failed policies that created the economic crisis, siding with special interests, i.e., the Wall Street investment banks. These economic and fiscal policies created the Bush…