"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."
"I hear again and again how much tougher things are going."
"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."
"We must work toward enacting fundamental agricultural guest worker reform that will benefit American agriculture, the American consumer, and hungry people all over the world."
"Labor is the life blood of the agriculture industry. Without the ability to find and retain a reliable workforce, our agriculture industry will continue to struggle to meet the market's needs."
"The Labor Department believes that workers who do have legal status appear to be leaving farm jobs because of age or opportunities for more stable and higher-paying employment outside of agriculture."
"But creating a sustained national funding mechanism that companies can tap into while we grow into this idea of taking people from nontraditional sectors, would be significant."
"I don't think there were a lot of tech jobs that were really in 1937."
"So, in other words, in the last 10 years, since I got out of school, the aggregated amount of student debt in this country has tripled in the last 10 years?"
"the maximum Pell Grant was about 76 percent of the cost of attendance for a 4-year school, about 76 percent in 1980."