Jeff Denham

The administration has declared this week to be National Latino Enrollment Week in the hopes of mounting a special push--a big rush--of Latinos rushing to sign up for the Affordable Care Act because it is supposedly going to help their…

I am pleased today to offer my bill, The ENLIST Act, as a partial solution to the recruitment challenges of the future.

As someone who served, I remember the pride that I had wearing the uniform, and cannot think of a better way for these young people to earn the right to fully share in the rights and freedoms of America.

Well, certainly, we are falling way behind the rest of the world. Other technologies are starting to flourish in other parts of the world, yet here this project will take at least 30 years but, more likely, 50 to 60 based on where they are…

There are important deadlines. Again, this is part of the Antideficiency Act that says the 50/50 match now is coming due for the State. So April 1, $180 million is due. The question for the Governor is: Where is that money going to come…

It would be a fraction of the price, tens of thousands of jobs that would be lost of seeing farmland that goes by without being planted this year. We have a huge drought. There are huge issues. And what everybody is trying to say is a…

Well, certainly, one of the big concerns right now is where are these jobs? These were stimulus dollars that were supposed to be ready for shovel-ready projects 5 years ago--5 years ago--and still not one shovel is in the ground. Not one…

I thank the gentleman from California. I, as many other Californians at one time, supported the California high-speed rail project. It was initially supposed to be a $33 billion project with equal amounts coming not only from the…

My concern is that we build another Amtrak that stops in Bakersfield, and the rest of the Nation looks at California and says, 'You just spent $6 billion,' and it is decades, if ever, that this thing ever gets accomplished.

I was serving in the State senate at the time, and voted in favor of this proposition because of the guarantee to taxpayers it would be fiscally responsible, and not need an ongoing subsidy.

California's taxpayers simply cannot support a multibillion-dollar boondoggle.

We are not investing any money. Eight billion dollars, not a dime--and proud of it--not a dime for high-speed rail.

This is the most transparent administration in the history of our country.

The most transparent administration in history, not just to Democrats, but to both.

I have consistently called for the California High-Speed Rail Authority to develop a viable plan that accepts economic and budgetary realities.

We are becoming a third-world country, while we sit here and argue about nickels and dimes.

What are you hiding?

Sadly, after 5 years, we are nowhere closer to that viable plan, nor have any construction jobs been created.

the prudent use of billions of taxpayers' dollars, which the Authority has proven time and again that they are unable to be good stewards of.

Sixty-eight billion dollars that could balloon to $100 billion is something I am going to continue to have a lot of questions about.

So, given the November ruling, does the FRA have the right, under the grant agreement, to suspend payment?

What I am concerned about is an agency that is hiding information from Congress.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. LaMALFA. We are also joined by a colleague from the lower San Joaquin Valley area of the State for whom this issue is very important, very key to his district as well, on the impact of the rail route…

My concern is this does not seem to be raising any red flags.

Florida is not a third-world country. Texas is not a third-world country. They are just doing high-speed rail much cheaper, and with private investors.