John Scott Duarte

These are the Lords of Scarcity pushing working families up against the edge of privation, right where they want you.

I am a farmer who is prosecuted with threats of criminal penalties for planting wheat in a wheat field under the 2008 WOTUS rule.

We can get better yield off the dams we have by focusing on a multi-faceted endangered species approach, versus just washing water out through the delta each year.

They are paying for 90 percent of their water at a rate of about $250 an acre-foot, and actually getting 5, 10 percent of what they are paying for.

My perception is that there is more to get and that we haven't gotten all there is to gain there.

I personally have seen some technologies come out of the Los Alamos Laboratory on peptide research that have huge implications for plant health.

I wouldn't want grizzly bears in the Sierra Nevada, but I am afraid they are coming to a forest near me soon.

We need to protect wetlands, and we need to protect the clean water supply we enjoy here in America. The Supreme Court has been dealing with this for years, and if we don't get it right here and keep the agencies honest, we are going to…

Somebody from far away outside our base and outside our community, outside our state, outside our country could play the water market through political or environmental manipulations.

I think that commodities are commodities. They move around the globe and they fill voids and shortages through a free market system that you folks help facilitate. But water is not a commodity.

I have hospitals going bankrupt. The property tax revenue in this district is eviscerating, evaporating.

Since the 1990s and the biological opinions and the lawsuits that ensued afterwards, and the removal of water from area to save the Delta smelt, the salmon from the Delta, we have depleted groundwater resources.

We have sacrificed a lot for the Delta smelt and the salmon through single species management schemes that I hope have delivered tremendous results for all the species or the salmon, the smelt, but maybe not human so much.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Speaker, I couldn't agree with the gentleman more. California's Central Valley, whether it be the Sacramento Valley where Doug serves and represents or the South San Joaquin Valley where I serve…

So it is interesting at times to understand some of the investigations and things that we need to write new laws for, or we claim we need to write new laws because one politician does this or his son does that. We can't possibly need new…

The other side of affordability is opportunity, and families can't make ends meet unless they have affordable food, affordable energy, affordable housing. They can't do the best they can do without opportunity. Until America decides to…

I think we have been smoked out and had some level of smoke damage or another on our wine grapes.

Do everything you can to be careful, that's all.

Well, like we say up north, just leave your next of kin so we know who to notify.

Usually you'll get couple of people that, you know, they haven't been through a hurricane before, don't know what it's like, and say, Well, I'll stay in my home. Well, like we say up north, just leave your next of kin so we know who to…