"Thank you very much for this opportunity to have this type of hearing on something that is important, not just to my community on the Central Coast of California, but clearly to the United States and ..."
"we have about 15 farmers' markets that participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, as well as WIC, the Women, Infants, and Children Supplemental Program."
"we have a lot of programs--this is one of them--and we have programs in our schools as well to get their children involved in it, too."
"But what puts the fear in me is that deficits are growing beyond our will to control it."
"I do agree with the fact that we need to start developing a plan to combat long-term deficit growth."
"It means that we will need to be fiscally responsible when it comes to our spending and, yes, raise the revenue to do it."
"California pays more in federal taxes than they receive in federal spending."
"This administration has pursued policies that have sort of left them out to dry."
"The 2017 tax law's cap on state and local tax deduction creates challenges for state revenue agencies."
"Thank you, Ranking Member Balderson. I appreciate both of your opening statements and agree with absolutely everything that both of you had to say."
"the Farmworker Modernization Act was a very, very important bill that I am proud to say has not only passed in a bipartisan basis in the House; it must be passed in the Senate and signed into law."
"But more needs to be invested in this technology to do it."