John Scott Duarte

Today I rise to celebrate three great Central Valley universities: UC Merced, Fresno State University, and Stanislaus State University, that The Wall Street Journal ranked three out of the top four colleges in America for helping students…

I thank the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Bost) for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of my bill, the Clear Communication for Veterans Claims Act. I am proud that the House is considering my bill on the floor today and for the…

I thank the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Fleischmann) for yielding time to me. Mr. Chairman, the last 2 years in California have been very, very wet, and flooding has devastated our valley. I saw firsthand the devastation in Planada…

Under the Clean Water Act, the EPA or States with delegated authority regulate point sources of pollution into the waters of the United States. Point source pollution is pollution from any discernible, confined, and discrete conveyance…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you to the panelists today. I am a farmer from California.

We are weighing the last air quality increment over affordability.

We are giving up enormous food resources out of America because of these onerous, idiotic regulatory programs.

Do you believe, Ms. Arias, that diet is a key health factor for working families, low-income families, all families, color; I don't care.

Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this important hearing today, and thank you for inviting Mr. Dillon Olvera...

If we had due process, we could take into account the dietary needs of American families and balance them against the air quality needs of American families.

Are you capable of recognizing a hopeless boondoggle? Because that is what we are discussing right now.

I don't see electric vehicles making lives tremendously better here in the United States. They are crushing lives around the world.

My district is full of very smart people, with firm grasp reality. They can smell (EXPLETIVE DELETED).

These dams are 92 percent full. We have farms that need this water to produce crops this year.

I am dropping the EV Fair Trade Act, which simply says, if you want to get a Federal check to subsidize your electric vehicle purchase, that's fine... it's going to be certified by the manufacturer not to involve constituents or components…

I am very suspect of the social equity claims made by the electric vehicle industry.

I live in a rural part of California, 18th highest poverty level in the country, where they have taken the water off the farms and my families simply can't afford it.

Energy infrastructure is an issue of promiscuity. I mean, you have to be permissive to allow the carbon economy to grow and lift more billions of lives out of poverty.

That is a complete mischaracterization of what I just said. I am not being insensitive, and also----

Your policies sound insensitive and mean to the most vulnerable people on earth, and I really detest that.

The poorest folks in the world are lacking natural gas?

We are shutting down oil leases, we are shutting down oil transport. We are shutting down the oil economy which includes many derivatives, many industries that many families can better themselves on.

we also have a very blue State government. And that doesn't bode well for red rural counties, in terms of getting our share.

obviously, we can't haul anything on that in regard to ag products. We certainly need to keep priorities in line and remember that the local areas are really best suited to determine what their needs are.