Jerry Brown: “That was not my contention, that the gentleman has not picked the number that we approved for 1996. My contention is the…”

I was not sure that I wanted to become engaged in this debate. But I do have some concerns about the Food Quality Protection Act; and since we have been discussing that in a very enlightening way, I thought that I would proceed with the…

I presume that the gentleman from California (Mr. Lewis) is trying to hint to me so that I should not beat this subject to death so we can move on with his bill. But I am very deeply concerned that we progress in terms of understanding…

We are a very powerful if not the most powerful country in the world. And if the country cannot make decisions about how it spends money or how it deals with its basic problems, but instead squabbles with the scapegoating, finger-pointing…

It's a historic drought that demands unprecedented action.