Lynn C. Woolsey: “When I came to Congress I couldn't have asked for a better mentor--a public schoolteacher from New Jersey, someone kind…”

Again, Mr. Speaker, nothing in the proposed rule would have applied to children working on their parents' family farm, and I reserve the balance of my time.

We know that the smelt has its place in the ecosystem and that, yes, indeed Southern California needs water.

I just want to repeat what I said in my opening remarks. Nothing in the proposed rule would have applied to children working on their parents' family farm. The proposed rule maintains the parental exemption. But again, to remind everybody…

Thank you, George, for doing this. Thank you for honoring those of us that have been here and now are leaving. I arrived feeling very green and feeling very good 20 years ago. I had no idea how little I knew about how to get something done…