Jimmy Panetta actually said...

"You have shown a great deal of empathy and understanding when it comes to this issue and how it affects our specialty crops."

"One is here in Congress with proper immigration reform, but two is mechanization in dealing with the lack of labor."

"I come from an area on the central coast of California that, unfortunately, suffered the most expensive wildfire in our Nation's history this last year, the Soberanes Fire."

"I am concerned that a proposal from the National Organics Standards Board (NOSB) could be working counter to those goals."