Sam Farr

Nobody is against building this fence. It is just, why waive all of these rules? We have built 14 miles of this fence without having to waive any rules. I do not think it is necessary. I think it is a guise and a political maneuver.

Look, you have been able to build almost this entire fence without the waiving of any environmental laws. The record that the gentleman showed there just a moment ago gave the Attorney General the authority to waive NEPA and ESEA. You are…

Reclaiming my time, it will not go to legislative intent. It will go to what you have stated in words here, and it says ``any other laws or requirements.'' Any.

In its report just released last month, the National Park Service labeled the land of Fort Hunter Liggett as ``relatively unchanged landscape'' from the time of the California's missionaries; as having ``no equivalent'' in terms of…

The bill we debate today cuts NOAA funding by 15 percent when compared to fiscal year 2004 levels. The decision to cut the funding of vital NOAA programs flies in the face of two in-depth oceans studies, The Preliminary Report of the U.S…

I would like to also associate myself with the gentleman's remarks, and remind this body that only last week with all the construction that is going on, and we are trying to get that construction over with because it is so bothersome, but…

I just wanted to say that today we launched, and this week, essentially a focus on how we should upgrade the oceans in America. We have ignored them. We paid attention to clean air, clean water, and we have 10 different agencies…

I am not from Illinois, but I have to tell my colleagues that Senator Simon was a man of all seasons, was a mentor and a teacher. And most importantly, when he talked, people listened. I remember when the Defense Language Institute, which…

That interesting, cooperative solution is done by, in congratulations to the gentleman as a representative from Oregon, that the Oregon State University, along with the University of California in Santa Cruz, that is in my District; the…

Treaty of the seas, law of the seas, something our Navy is very interested in having ratified. The Senate failed to do that many years ago. I have suggested that the Senate ought to revisit that, particularly with the Navy's interest in…

Even then it is not off limits to people who want to access it on foot rather than by motor vehicle.

Well, it is rather embarrassing, if not shameful, that our country that is always sort of championed as being in a leadership role of higher quality, of better standards, of caring for living things, protection of species, and so on, would…

I represent the most productive agricultural congressional district in the United States, not only in production, but in diversity of crops, and I go home every week and I talk to my farmers and they ask me, when is somebody going to get…

Everybody here has been elected under the law that allows a $1,000 limit. We had no problem getting elected. Many of us have been elected many, many times. There is nothing broke out there that needs fixing. The law is a good law, and let…

Fishermen were assured by this language and the terms of the Designation Document.

Mr. Chairman, I carried that issue in the California legislature. The issue is not just perishable fruit. I would admonish the Committee on Agriculture, we have to solve this. Every time we vote for buy American for the gentleman from Ohio…

This is an argument about if it is not good, just do a little bit. But if it is not good, that is like saying if we were going to drill on Capitol Hill, it is all right, because it is just a little bit. Where would you begin? Is a little…

I come from a district which has had seven presidentially declared disasters. If there is anything that I have learned, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Everything we do in this country is to try to prevent injury and harm…

California is a testing area for the globe, not only for our Nation. It is a State that has learned that you cannot take care of the people unless you take care of the land. And we have developed in California a very extensive way of…

I thank the gentleman. The concern here is that in a bipartisan fashion, we funded the farmers of this country who grow the food that feeds the people, that feeds the children through school lunch programs and school breakfast programs and…

I want to thank him for the opportunity to discuss with him the funding for a critical project in my district, which is the central part of California. This is the second year I have sought appropriations to carry out a preconstruction…

The time has come for Congress to recognize the lasting contribution of volunteerism in America by passing the National and Community Service Amendments Act of 2000.

They have totally zeroed out this program. I ask the gentleman from California (Mr. Walsh) as chairman of this committee, when he goes into conference to fight as hard to get this reestablished as he did to get the Peace Corps funded, as I…

For its exemplary record of service to the poor and hungry, I would like to extend best wishes for success in the future.

Dorothy's Place is a great community resource deserving of praise and thanks for the humanitarian spirit and service that it has provided for so many years.