Doug LaMalfa

We are impugning the entire foundation of what this country, this institution, this House of Representatives, is founded on when we make statements like that.

I still have this ideal concept that the founders had, that this is the people's house.

I cannot let go by earlier what the Ranking Member was saying about the process becoming such a closed, political--

We don't have a jobs economy lately.

We are having food costs, or other, like, Health Department issues, where people that want to donate food, or they want to help people in certain ways, find barriers to that.

I hope the efforts of this Commission will help us to shape that.

The legislation provides for certain aspects that the County can predict, whereas the Tribe wouldn't necessarily have to do certain things under a BIA decision.

It is important that we in Congress back up, basically, our oath to preserve constitutional ideals.

This will direct the Secretary of the Interior to take land into trust to enable the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash to address a shortage of housing for their members.

Unfortunately, anti-growth obstructionists have already threatened to stall this process with lawsuits.

I appreciate the strong support that the committee is showing here today.

There is a lot of frustration with that.

You know, it seems to me in Washington, if it ain't broke you go meddle with it.

Congressman Doug LaMalfa also requested the OIG review these allegations.

For those employees that are there grinding it out at the grunt level, using a military term, we appreciate you.

I took a picture of the cart and I forwarded it to Congressman LaMalfa.

Allegedly these informal claims were also being improperly stored.

I just wanted to follow-up, Mr. Dolcini, on the drought relief again, affecting California.

I supported removing direct payments, and so there is an implied promise there, I guess, with direct payments, again, happily being gone.

I would imagine it would be pretty overwhelming, given the feedback we are getting so far on this, that they are not at all in favor of the proposed rule and that it should likely be scrapped, or some other angle taken on that.

Why is the Commission seeking to take away this longstanding legitimate hedging tool from farmers?

Position limits are, in my opinion, a sideshow that has unnecessarily diverted human and fiscal resources away from actions to prevent another financial crisis.

Of course, one of the key issues we are concerned with is the ability for end-users to have the access to the market.

We are all concerned that some of these requirements impose a burden that is much greater than any possible benefit for U.S. markets.

These requirements were so costly that many swap and futures sellers simply stopped working with publicly-owned utilities.