Jul 5, 2016
It seems that when it comes time to attempt another repeal of the Affordable Care Act, House Republicans are willing to bring an unlimited number of bills to this floor, consume an almost unlimited amount of this House's resources. It…
Jared Huffman
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Jared William Huffman is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 2nd congressional district since January 3, 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, Huffman has focused on issues such as environmental protection, healthcare, and education during his tenure in Congress. He has been an advocate for science-based policy and has emphasized the importance of government support for scientific research and public safety initiatives.
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Jul 5, 2016
The whole point of the Democratic sit-in to demand congressional action on gun violence was to say that empty gestures and moments of silence for 30 seconds, followed by the bang of a gavel and resumption of business as usual will not be…
Jun 15, 2016
The boogeyman of Russian coal and Vladimir Putin really do strain credulity. In addition to the option of buying coal in Germany itself, which would obviously be one way to do this, as my colleague, Mr. McClintock, points out, there is…
Jun 15, 2016
I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California will be postponed. Amendment No. 18 Offered by Mr. Peters The Acting CHAIR. It is…
Jun 15, 2016
I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Strike section 8127. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 783, the gentleman from California (Mr…
Jun 15, 2016
May I inquire as to the balance of my time? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California has 2\1/2\ minutes remaining.
Jun 15, 2016
I stand, once again, today to offer an amendment with my fellow Californian, Tom McClintock, and I have to say this is a deja vu moment. Just last year, Mr. McClintock and I worked together, on a bipartisan basis, to finally strike a…
Jun 10, 2016
444. That is the number of times Lynn Woolsey came to this floor, stood at that podium right over there, and addressed this House during Special Orders, speaking against war and in support of peace. Lynn Woolsey, for 20 years, represented…
May 25, 2016
When I hear my colleagues across the aisle continually describe outflow through the delta estuary as water that is somehow wasted and available to be taken for any purpose, it requires us often to remind them that this delta water system…
May 25, 2016
I share the majority leader's view that California is a unique and iconic and majestic place. I would only add that part of what makes it so includes the great rivers and iconic salmon runs in California from the Central Valley to the…
May 25, 2016
Today I rise in opposition to the litany of bad, environmentally harmful bills that the House Republican leadership is offering in place of the bipartisan Senate energy bill. Now, the Senate bill, S. 2012, was sound policy and represented…
May 25, 2016
Calling the Valadao water bill bipartisan does not make it genuinely so. Let me just share with my colleagues what Senator Dianne Feinstein has said about this bill. She said it contains ``provisions that would violate environmental law,''…
May 23, 2016
However, the two other bills on today's agenda would approve a legal settlement agreement recently reached between the Federal Government and the Westlands Water District, which is missing significant environmental and budgetary…
May 23, 2016
So, you are telling Congress and the people of California that we should entrust the Enron accounting team with taking care of that particular environmental scenario.
May 23, 2016
the settlement agreement calls for nearly $400 million in a taxpayer bailout for the Westlands Water District.
May 23, 2016
Does the agreement protect the taxpayers in the Department from claims outside the San Luis Unit?
May 23, 2016
In exchange for amending that law, which I think almost everyone now agrees should not have contained this taxpayer obligation in the first place to finance a boondoggle drain for these lands, the settlement agreement requires taxpayers to…
May 23, 2016
Well, Mr. Costa's legislation says that they will be implemented notwithstanding any other law. Doesn't that include NEPA, 'any other law'?
May 23, 2016
the argument that this is somehow saving the taxpayers money is at odds with the fact that if the Federal Government were required to somehow build this drain under existing law, the Westlands Water District would have to pay for that.
May 23, 2016
The settlement agreement would relieve the Federal Government of an obligation under a 56-year-old law to build an interceptor drain.
May 23, 2016
environmental and water quality safeguards are completely missing from this deal.
May 23, 2016
This, I believe, is good public policy and ought to move quickly through the committee.
May 23, 2016
I think if people are going to come in here and say they have heard Members of Congress say certain things, that if something helps Westlands than they are opposed, they had better be ready to name names.
May 23, 2016
Folks within the San Luis Unit sued the Federal Government, and court rulings subsequently found that unless that old law is amended, that the Department of the Interior still has an obligation to provide drainage service to Westlands and…
May 23, 2016
it is mind-boggling that we would simply take Westlands' word under this agreement.
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