"Last year in a bipartisan effort, we decided to really take a closer look at the dairy title, and we made changes."
"When we lose a dairy farm, we also lose the jobs and investment that the farm provides."
"Dairy directly provides nearly one million U.S. jobs with an economic impact of over $200 billion nationwide."
"America's dairy industry is in crisis and today's hearing is just one part of this Subcommittee's continued effort to respond to the challenges facing dairy farmers across this country."
"The Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture will now come to order."
"I know, I am trying to take credit for it, since I got blamed for the drought. I think it is only fair. It is not working."
"As they say, all politics are local, and water, of course, to California is an absolutely critical issue."
"If we can't provide maximum allocation in an abundance in a big hydrological year as this year, then obviously we will never be able to come close to making allocation numbers."
"Without the Drought Contingency Plan under current operational agreements, what would happen if Lake Mead goes into shortage conditions below 1,075 feet or 1,025 feet?"
"We look forward to continuing to work with you, and my time has expired, but this is a critical issue, obviously for American agriculture, as you know."
"I think that strategy is a mistake."