DENNIS A. CARDOZA

Let's let truth in the science dictate the policy.

H.R. 1549 will have detrimental effects, not only on our farmers who feed the world safe and wholesome meat and meat products, but also on public health.

They are really legitimate, concerning issues, and we need to use the best science and complete science.

We too have lost our jobs. We too have lost our homes.

Economic disasters are no less devastating than a tornado, a flood, or an earthquake.

When there is a natural disaster, and the whole premise behind the Federal Government acting is that State and local authorities don't have the resources to deal with the crisis, and so, we expect that money not only to eventually get…

the unemployment rate that really counts is the unemployment rate in your household, which doesn't necessarily know geographical boundaries.

at what point do you get concerned that we are borrowing money from the Chinese, we are borrowing 46 cents on the dollar, and we are sending the bill to our children and our grandchildren.

Despite the collapsing economy and rising crime, higher poverty levels in my district, the Central Valley receives only half the national average of Federal dollars per capita.

Congressman Cardoza and I are here to fight for farmers and farm workers and the farm communities of the San Joaquin Valley.

should a frugal community have to subsidize a nonfrugal community?

This is a powerful tool if this committee passes this legislation for areas like ours where unemployment has shot through the roof.

I am here to plead with you to provide the relief we desperately need.

What has become of our region of California is nothing short of an economic disaster.

We may get these houses back, but we have to have people able to live in them; that our double-digit unemployment...

the most endangered species might be the farmers that are trying to till the land because without water you can't farm

I think global warming is real.

I want a climate change bill that helps our environment and preserves our Earth for my grandkids.

In developing a cure, however, it is imperative that we do not inadvertently kill the patient.

I rise today on this momentous occasion of honoring a great man, John Dingell. And as we do so, I remember another colleague who is no longer with us, Bob Matsui from California, whose wife, Doris Matsui, so ably serves with us today in…

As we know all too well, despite the Blue Dog Coalition's best efforts and the efforts of many other efforts on both sides of the aisle in this Chamber, cutting spending is never easy, but ladies and gentlemen, enough is enough. It is high…

Mr. Speaker, make no mistake about it, these are tough times for our country. The United States is facing an economic disaster unlike anything we have seen since the Great Depression. In the coming weeks, there will surely be differences…

Finally, Mr. Speaker, this bill will improve the oversight of health care needs for our children in foster care. My wife is a family doctor, and she has been taken aback by the lack of oversight in the medical treatment of foster kids. The…

I rise in strong support of overriding the misguided Presidential veto on the Farm, Conservation and Energy Act. It is extremely unfortunate that we must go through this exercise on legislation that is so critically important to both rural…

I rise to join my colleague, Mr. McDermott, and urge the support of H. Res. 1185. Since being elected to public office, I have been in advocate for children in foster care; in part because 8 years ago my wife and I adopted two of our…