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Sam Farr is a former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, serving California's 17th congressional district from 1993 to 2015. During his tenure, Farr was known for his advocacy on environmental issues, particularly in relation to coastal protection and sustainable agriculture. He played a significant role in promoting volunteerism and community service, as evidenced by his support for the National and Community Service Amendments Act of 2000.
I rise as a former county supervisor remembering the debates about not wanting the Federal Government to leave to close bases, not wanting the Federal Government to abandon land. As a former State legislator, I have never seen a resolution…
On April 3, 1996, the Department of Commerce suffered the greatest tragedy in its history when 35 people perished in a plane crash while conducting a trade mission to the Balkans. Ronald H. Brown, then Secretary of Commerce, was leading a…
I want to speak about Colombia in a way that has not been spoken tonight on this floor and it has been a long day but I am the only Member to rise who has lived in Colombia. I lived there for 2 years. I represented this country as a member…
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.
For its exemplary record of service to the poor and hungry, I would like to extend best wishes for success in the future.
I have known the Reverend Darling for many years. He is a friend, he is a counselor, he is a confidante. His family is not new to this Chamber. Reverend Darling and his wife, Karen, are the parents of Adam Darling, who we all know died in…
Mr. Chairman, I hope our Members are listening to this debate, or more importantly, are reading what this campaign finance reform bill is all about. It is about reform. It is about campaign reform. It is not about doing what the American…
this bill is a travesty. The funding to provide services for our Veterans and to assist with housing for low-income families is wholely inadequate. At this time, I wish to address another area where this bill is unacceptable, the lack of…
Mr. Chairman, I rise with concern over this amendment. The amendment expresses a sense of Congress. Colombia is in a very grave situation right now. Its 40-year-old government guerrilla struggle and the latter day antidrug struggle is…
Salinas' 'Framework for Violence Prevention' is really a 'one size fits all' approach that any community in the country can follow to find their own solutions for youth violence.
Sex, drugs and rock and roll were condemned thirty years ago and here we are today talking about trying to legislate morality when we should really be talking about are education and prevention programs to stop youth violence.
If we truly want to have an impact on reducing youth violence, I urge my colleagues to work with their local communities to initiate the kind of grass-roots assessment that Salinas did because we won't find the solutions to youth violence…
I object to the high-handedness of my colleagues of the other party who have no qualms at all about including in this bill 30, 30 provisions that legislate on the appropriations bill. Thirty. Were any of these 30 items subject to a point…
Mr. Chairman, my colleagues should wake up and smell the coffee. That Juan Valdez, who is in all our homes, on our television sets, telling us about the virtues of Colombian coffee, and we see him in those advertisements in every grocery…
On June 12, residents of the Central Coast of California were devastated to learn that Christina Williams hadn't returned to her family's home after walking the dog. Seven long months later her body was found less than three miles from her…
I respect the gentleman's right, the right to object, but this bill that we are dealing with, the underlying bill, is a spending bill, an emergency spending bill, and we have a legal emergency that has to be taken care of. They are the…
Today is tax day. Everybody knows how much they pay in taxes, but let us not forget that we also have this great country which has great public institutions, a great system of highways, parks and museums. Essentially, the public…
Mr. Speaker, there is no rocket science in this. The Federal Government since history has been required to do a census every 10 years. We do not need to pass any law to do that. We created the Census Bureau to do it. So if we are going to…
I rise today on a good news note to honor the accomplishments of a constituent of mine, Mr. Leonard Paige. In November 1998, Mr. Paige realized his lifelong dream to make a difference in Africa with the signing ceremony of the first joint…
I rise to support the motion to recommit, and I would just like to remind our colleagues that our Nation must maintain a defensive posture, but not at any cost. The Joint Chiefs of Staff have pleaded for increased funding for spare parts…
I rise to discuss this issue because it is indeed an issue that should have a lot more attention in this Nation at the local level than it has been getting. The battle here in Washington seems to be a partisan battle. The battle of getting…
today is the wrong day and this is the wrong way. When our side asked this morning why are we doing this today, the Republican leadership responded, because we want to demonstrate democracy at work. Democracy at work? I served this country…
this has been a rough week for parents. I think every mother and father in America trembled when we heard about Matthew Shepard's beating in Wyoming, and anxiously waited for word of his condition. And we all must have wept at the thought…
I rise this Sunday afternoon here in Washington with, like the rest of us, probably really missing our families and wishing we could be with them. But I happened to think about my daughter who was about the age that I was when this town…
I want to go back to my statement that I made in the 1-minutes on the spirit I felt in this country when I remember first getting involved and getting committed. Many of us are sitting here as parents. I think we have children growing up…
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