If we commit to making these investments, we are going to protect not only the local needs of our valley, but the country's access to healthy, home-grown food.

This is a public safety concern for the farmers, families, and water users across the state, and it's a concern for anyone across the country who eats our produce.

We have an obligation to move quickly to invest, to prepare for the one that we know is just around the corner.

Our region's access to water allows us to deliver over half of America's fruits, nuts, and vegetables.

We have real challenges making sure that we actually are connecting people into jobs.

this is a proven program with high success, and yet all the centers that exist are in areas that don't actually have the same needs as my district.

I hear again and again how much tougher things are going.

As the Chairman said, I represent the California Central Valley, and if you have ever seen those happy cows come from California, that is us.

It is one of the most critical keys to agriculture and to jobs.

The sustained period of low prices and negative margins is something he has never seen.

I think what kills me about this isn't just the context of the fact that we are cutting some of the most critical programs to improve literacy, it is the hypocrisy of what I see from this Department.