"While climate change affects us all, this is incredibly personal for me, and the community that I represent."
"I represent the city of San Bernardino where the incident was last month, and obviously it could have gone a different way."
"And thank you for citing the threat to the concentrated population of Korea, because actually what you are saying is the capital Seoul has a population of nearly 20 million people, very compact, very ..."
"SNAP plays a crucial role in connecting families with accessibility to healthy and nutritious foods."
"For many families SNAP makes up the majority of their food budget."
"They struggle to make that budget and to plan their meals and they struggle with food insecurity every day."
"I appear before you as a representative of a city in an area where the economy will be severely impacted by the new Santa Ana Sucker boundaries drawn by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service."
"There is no question the expansion of the critical habitat of the Santa Ana Sucker will bring dire economic consequences for our communities."
"I think you need to base it on science."
"We are going to have to look at additional strategies, recycling and--and those are the issues that I think are important to us as local communities."
"Oh, and it is going to increase them, without a doubt. We are going to have to be less reliant on the State water."