DENNIS A. CARDOZA: “the most endangered species might be the farmers that are trying to till the land because without water you can't farm”

Unfortunately, I was unable to vote on H.R. 1892, the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 because of road closures caused by flooding in and around my home. The roads were impassable, and I regret that I could not be…

I urge my colleagues to vote for this commonsense amendment and prevent undue economic harm to our communities. I yield back the balance of my time.

I look at today's Hill newspaper and I look on page 31. And I oftentimes believe that cartoons and political satire speak much more clearly than the words that we can use in big long speeches. And in today's cartoon, although I can't say…

In recent weeks we have seen a small but slow and steady improvement in the national housing market while other parts of the country, like my congressional district in the San Joaquin Valley, have continued to deteriorate. I have…