Sam Farr

I repeat, it does not legalize marijuana. It is a very straightforward amendment. It removes the Federal interference from local law, from local affairs where States have adopted through their legislative process or initiative process, a…

Because this is not a debate about farming versus the environment. This is a debate about economics versus economics. It is about coastal economics, where the majority of the population of the people in California live, versus interior…

I rise here on the floor of the United States House of Representatives in the Capital of this country to pay tribute to one of California's most beloved public servants: Alameda County Superior Court Judge Richard B. Iglehart, who passed…

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

Let me say something. I think that before our lifetimes are over we are going to see the ability to rent a vehicle where a person can drive under the sea. They can drive in the sea. And that will really open up this massive amount of…

I think what happens now, according to a spokesperson for the Navy that I talked to several years ago, was that we have dozens of Navy research vessels which are owned and operated by the Navy, but the operators are mostly contract marine…

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…

We have also shown, though, that where we have degraded that habitat to such a point where all known life forms have failed in those systems, they have gotten so polluted, some of those streams, but with good management techniques we have…

It is more difficult to trace than the Exxon Valdez, which was essentially one spot, a big contamination. These are subtle contaminations. But these contaminations are not just chemicals. We have a way of transporting nature. Certainly we…

I think in light of tonight's discussions, which really have wonderful populist appeal about issues of drug sales in America and about the practices of licensing telecommunications in this country, it is also appropriate that we focus a…

What is interesting about tourism is, why do people go into the outdoors? It is really to experience the outdoors. And how is that? It is not just the beautiful shapes of mountains and trees and natural forms; it is also the wildlife. We…

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…

earlier in the year, Department of Defense (DOD) approached Congress with a request to exempt itself from several fundamental environmental laws in order to strengthen military readiness. At the time this request shocked most of us…

I rise today to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, which honors Asian Pacific Americans throughout our history. From the early reaches of our Nation's history to the present day, Asian Pacific Americans have played a crucial…

I rise in support of S. 870, a bill to amend the Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act to extend the availability of funds to carry out the fruit and vegetable pilot program. We hear a great deal about the importance of teaching our…

through all the debate over attacking Iraq, it is important to remember how the threat of the United States attack on Iraq affects our youngest constituents. Here is a letter that I just received from one such concerned constituent in my…

I came here as a freshman and was assigned to the Committee on Resources, which I think is probably the most important committee in Congress, because it really deals with the terrain of America, the landscape of America, the things that…

I rise tonight on the issue of war with Iraq. I have to ask myself in casting the votes before us, what is the best way to achieve peace in Iraq, not only for its own diverse ethnic people living in Iraq, but also for the people in the…

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 would love to see the leadership, the political leadership, elected leadership and the administration, would it not be wonderful if the electricity on the President of the United States' ranch was totally generated by solar power and…

It certainly does not demonstrate leadership. There is no way anyone can take the United States position and argue that we are a leader in this field. I think we have been a leader in bringing about the consciousness of global pollution…

I think what turns that around is leadership. Leadership needs to be provided to get us out of the broken modality. I think back to the years when I was a Peace Corps volunteer and had no resources except the people. They did not want to…

I want to congratulate him and my other congressional colleagues who went to Johannesburg, South Africa. While he was in South Africa, I had the privilege of being in his beautiful State, in fact in his district of Portland, Oregon; and I…

What this amendment is all about is recognizing, America has linguists and we have language teachers and we have language institutions but we have not brought them all together so we can make them skilled linguists. And in order to do…

today we debate the level of our federal commitment to arts and humanities programs. We have an opportunity to ensure that the children who today dip their hands in pots of fingerprints and sit listening to storybooks will grow up to be…