John Scott Duarte

Has the Bureau of Reclamation taken an interest in California Legislature's recent efforts to rewrite our water rights?

I would like to talk more broadly about abundance and access implications of our farm policy.

Are we displacing our highly diversified food system with commodity crops, farm policy, and biofuels?

I am from California. I represent a district that is--we looked at it--the 18th highest poverty level in America.

I am very concerned that this might be the first generation in America that is actually moving our diet away from additional produce, and protein, and diverse nutrition on the dinner plate.

Do you believe that this route serves as the multimodal transportation system that was called for 5 years ago?

We see that service there could happen in several years.

It is something that has been long awaited, and we are very excited about the movement.

Give them the shot in the arm of confidence that this is actually going to happen.

I have been inspired by how Congress has worked together on this issue.

In conversations that we have across the countryside with producers of all types and all backgrounds, they want the same opportunity that your producers are talking about.

I believe that as we conduct our review of the 2018 Farm Bill's conservation title, we must examine this enormous influx in funding and how these dollars are being allocated by USDA.

This is why I was proud to introduce the Increased TSP Access Act of 2021 with Ranking Member Spanberger, which will address the Technical Service Provider shortages.

Today I rise to recognize Nicole Moradzadeh of Merced for her outstanding submission to the congressional art contest. A junior at El Capitan High School, Nicole's artwork titled, ``Give Thanks,'' highlights the hardworking families who…

Are we to take this serious that the commitment on the Federal Government's part to provide that kind of growth of supply of biofuels in order to fuel our economy versus diesel, and what we might drill, is actually coming?

Well, thank you. That is great news.

I represent a whole bunch of orchard and vineyard growers in my district that just love the EQIP irrigation efficiency grants.

Finally, as we look at the farm bill's conservation programs, we must ensure that Title II programs will always be voluntary, incentive-based, producer-first, and locally-led.

We are destroying our rural economy. We are destroying hydroelectric power. We are destroying our irrigated landscapes and other habitats throughout the state, flushing water out to the ocean to restore salmon.

Do you have more salmon now than you did 10 years ago? Because you can't stop climate change by flushing our water out to the ocean.

In the Supreme Court arguments on Prop 12 just a few days ago--well, the ruling was a few days ago, the arguments were a few months ago--the arguments supporting it centered around morality.

Would any of you on the panel agree that there is a moral problem with our animal husbandry production systems in America today?

It is immoral to keep a pig in too tight a pig pen, it is immoral--not an animal welfare issue, not a human health issue.

The only real way to deal with it is to eradicate wild horses from the plains.

Yes, the climate is changing. It has been changing for a while.