"We hope to continue to vet that with you during the month of August."
"If we are going to deal with these long-term boom-and-bust cycles, that is going to have to be a critical part of the long-term solution."
"Mr. Chairman, we need to get a handle on this as we move forward on whatever long-term solutions we find..."
"We have a very serious, serious problem, a critical one."
"We want to get the Agriculture Department back over here."
"We are committed to helping the dairy farmers and to bring some price stabilization."
"We have moved from deep recession in the communities that Congressman Cardoza and I represent to depression unemployment numbers."
"I am not here to defend the California Air Resources Board. Let's make that clear."
"Thank you very much, Madame Chairwoman, for hosting this important hearing on the economic stimulus and its impact on water conditions as it affects our entire country and the potential for the stimul..."
"I want to thank you and the Ranking Member for allowing me to make comments that I think are critical."
"the state ought to take the lead on this so we could get through this process"
"This is a crisis that we are facing again in the Valley."