John Scott Duarte

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...

We are weighing the last air quality increment over affordability.

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.

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

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

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

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…

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.

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.

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.

The poorest folks in the world are lacking natural gas?

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.

We have got an administration that is administering the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act funds to a great extent out of a White House office, not through formulas, not through DOT grants solely, but literally has a White House office to hand this out…

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

This is regulation by imagination. This is the worst waste of Federal resources that I can imagine.

This Cottonwood Decision has caused a state of paralysis in managing our Federal forests by requiring forest plans to go through new ESA consultations every time a new species is listed.

The most compelling reason to support H.R. 7408 is the urgency that we see every single day on the landscape.

So, what this bill does, it simply says notify the importer, your company, within 5 days if there is a problem with a shipment.