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Douglas Lee LaMalfa is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 1st congressional district since January 3, 2013. A member of the Republican Party, LaMalfa has focused on issues such as agriculture, natural resources, and rural development during his time in office. He has been an advocate for policies that support farmers and promote economic growth in his district, which encompasses a large portion of Northern California.
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…
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…
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.
I actually agree with him on some of these issues that maybe we ought to look at incentives.
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?
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...
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...
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.
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.
Do you see a stronger enforcement mechanism over fraud on the oil that is imported under false pretense?
I will be looking at my 'USA made' label rules real carefully over time as well.
Just so I can take this back home and clarify on the TPP and market access there for rice.
The stuff they sell us may be a sensitive issue as well. I mean, their consumers would like to buy this product.
Some of my colleagues expressed some concern or even a little dismay at how that has gone
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.
This is a giant success for doing nothing, because we are still... going to be susceptible to drought.
They are still suing away. They are still preventing decent salvage operations from happening.
The other 96 will just be left to turn back into snags and grow into brush and become the next tinderbox for the next round of fire because the government can't manage its land and refuses to do so.
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