Sam Farr

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this bill but with real dismay. First, it is ludicrous that Congress continues to pass the SGR instead of to fix it once and for all. This bill, though necessary, doesn't fix what is broken, and we will…

I rise today in strong support of the DREAM Act. Bottom line: The DREAM Act is good for America. It is good for the economy and it is good for the future competitiveness of our country. According to Secretary Gates, "The expansion of the…

I would like to, first of all, praise the grandmother leadership of Speaker Pelosi and the leader of the committee, George Miller. There are no two legislators in the history of the United States Congress who have done more for children…

I rise on behalf of my colleagues in Congress who are return Peace Corps volunteers--Congressman Petri, Congressman Honda, Congressman Driehaus, and Congressman Garamendi. Fifty years ago this October in a predawn address…

Mother Earth, wake up. Today's the day that Congress is going to show some leadership. Leadership is about getting results. And last week, the President of the United States enacted, by Executive order, a government oceans plan, a…

Yet there is one bill you can't vote against, and that is the bill that supports the troops in their residence, in their training and back here at home--the quality of life that we provide defense personnel, military personnel. This is the…

10 years ago, the United States Congress enacted legislation to create an Oceans Commission to look at how we can prevent the oceans from dying. Yesterday, the President of the United States enacted, by Executive order, the first national…

Tonight I would like to share with you essentially a tale of two States, States that are both oil-producing States, States that both have offshore oil drilling, and those two States are California and Louisiana. Mr. Speaker, the comparison…

I'm a proud lifelong member of the NAACP, and today I join my colleagues in celebrating its 101st anniversary. The Monterey County Branch of the NAACP was created in 1932. Our chapter now ranks as one of the largest per capita branches in…

I appreciate the support for this bill on both sides of the aisle. I would just like to address that although the resolved clause is very simple, it recognizes for the first time that Congress recognizes for the first time that we ought to…

Ladies and gentlemen, the oil spill isn't the only mess in town. The mess was first started by the past administration, which takes great glee in cutting taxes for the very rich in this country and then leaving behind a huge deficit…

And, unfortunately, this President's budget calls for a huge increase in the observing systems in space at the expense of cutting programs in the ocean side, in the wet side.

Congressman Farr's Truth in Trials Act would actually remedy that injustice, allowing defendants in federal court to tell the truth about state law allowing them to dispense or use marijuana.

But those are the communities that are really dependent on what we call a coastal economy and it can be everything from tourism to fishing to transportation and so on.

I am a big fan of the Drug Courts. It has nothing to do with NOAA, but it is part of the Justice Department.

I rise in support of this legislation, and I think it is interesting that people are talking about health care because, if you don't have a healthy planet and healthy ocean, all of this discussion about how you care for human beings on the…

I can attest that this program works and is money well spent. I urge its adoption.

We sent our troops to war in Afghanistan, but after more than 8 years of war, we are only now actively trying to support peace. For years, I have worked to develop a Civilian Response Corps that can bring the whole of government approach…

I live in Carmel, California, and when the phone rang and I heard that Jack Murtha had died, I couldn't believe it. I broke into tears. I just couldn't believe it. It was like when I heard my father had died. And what I did at that moment…

Having the discriminatory lines in schools is just awful and we have got to just change that.

I certainly want to help Colombia have an alternative to the drugs, but I think we made it awfully easy for them not having any tariffs and so on to sort of take over our flower industry.

The only way you can solve it in those communities is to have what you call total wrap-around.

I think the Administration ought to really require these economic rural development plans for rural America.

USDA is really the first responder to poverty in America.

Perhaps we made a big mistake when we created the whole new Homeland Security Administration.