Doug LaMalfa

if people want to say that the Constitution and having duly elected officials making the laws through the constitutional process is too politicized, then I guess that is giving up on the American way of doing things.

I would be shocked, Mr. Chairman, shocked to hear that politics would be coming out of the Administration or the BIA.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

There is a lot of frustration with that.

Congressman Doug LaMalfa also requested the OIG review these allegations.

Allegedly these informal claims were also being improperly stored.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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