Doug LaMalfa

Defending Against Imitations and Replacements of Yogurt, Milk, and Cheese To Promote Regular Intake of Dairy Everyday Act.

It is great cost to the people that are the assistance part of this program, and it is also of great cost to the people, for lack of maybe knowledge or the idea that the government is incentivizing it, sending them home with candy bars and…

I don't think that we have a role here in being the food police.

What do you think the USDA's incentive is to deny these possible studies and the learning we can get from that at state level or New York City level?

So today we are talking about the SNAP program, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. Supplemental meaning in addition to what might be someone's personal income, or other forms of aid a family might be receiving.

So if we were to have this discussion about things that are nutritional and we have items on the list that maybe are now eligible for SNAP but determined somehow to not be nutritional, is it really that much tougher to differentiate…

I actually agree with him on some of these issues that maybe we ought to look at incentives.

If you have a million head of cattle that is consumed per year, and you lose 6,000 of them--I wonder what General Motors would think...

Despite all contrary data, this is essentially providing guidance to state agencies...

I find it fascinating that the comfort level with which urban legislators can just dismiss what the impact is...

I hope you have all week.

This is indeed something that the taxpayers should be looking at and saying we have been taken to the cleaners on this.

What the voters voted for in 2008 was a $33 billion project, a high-speed train, one train, not switching trains, from S.F. to L.A.

I am going to say that is a breach of contract. I am going to tell you to take a flying leap.

It is awesome to hear a discussion about property rights, especially in Northern California...

California has had a respite. It has its own problems such as forcing the $15 minimum wage.

Every time you turn around they want to make another monument, another wilderness land, another set-aside of some type or another that is supposedly going to preserve something from something.

Well, please keep my office and this Committee abreast of how those conversations are going and what we can do to help ensure that olive oil is as it is labeled.

I have more confidence with those folks' ability to work with you than I do the EPA.

This is a giant success for doing nothing, because we are still... going to be susceptible to drought.

Just so I can take this back home and clarify on the TPP and market access there for rice.

I want to know that there are protocols to guarantee this in the future, because our growers are, again, growing a high quality product in a more costly atmosphere to do business with, and our kids would want those higher quality products.

Rural broadband is very important for folks like Mayers, and telemedicine, and a lot of the other technology to keep rural America hooked up.

You guys are going to have to start upping your budget for litigation to fight back on them because we are suffering out here in the West.

They are still suing away. They are still preventing decent salvage operations from happening.