Sam Farr

I feel very strongly, we're all hired to do our job responsibly.

We will continue to work on this problem until we have been able to solve what is happening.

should we not be teaching them how to fish so that they can, indeed, produce professionals?

I wish our former colleague Jo Ann Emerson were here today. She was a very active member of this committee, a Republican from Missouri, and she and I were involved in the first bipartisan Cuba Working Group.

I think that unfortunately, despite what the Chairman says, I think we give you awfully short shrift.

the fear also was unintended consequences. This rule would prohibit the research that could be done on building organs and things like that.

It is important for the industry to have up to date information on changes in the market so that they can adapt quickly and make informed business decisions.

I represent probably 25 or 30 marine research entities, both public and private, around Monterey Bay.

I want the Department to tell me that it will direct adequate resources to ensure that the agricultural export markets impacted by LBAM quarantines will be protected going forward.

Every year this committee talks about the Department doing sunscreen labeling, and nothing gets done.

It is absolutely essential for these refugee camps to make sure that the food is there.

my district is known as the salad bowl capital of the world, and we grow something like 70 percent of all the lettuce in the United States.

my feeling here is that Secretary Vilsack said the other day that the privilege we all have to choose a profession is because we have people growing food for us, and we do not have to go out there and grow it.

This is my last year in Congress and on this committee, and this is one of the areas I think when I came to Congress I knew very little about the FDA.

We both got to know Rich through politics. It is amazing that he was a person who supported us both: Jeff being a Republican, myself being a Democrat; Jeff being in the State legislature, I being in the State legislature. I got to know him…

I thank the gentlewoman and congratulate her on probably being the Member of Congress who has been to Cuba more times than anyone else, has done more to lift the nuances of the embargo, and to, essentially, start the end of the cold war…

Yes. You were so instrumental. Think about it. A year ago, Alan Gross was on a plane coming back after spending 5 years--longer-- in a Cuban prison. You and I had the chance to visit him there. As we knew, his state was frail, and if he…

I thank the ranking member of the committee, Mrs. Lowey. Mr. Speaker, I want to just remind people that this is a big bill. It is a bill that has got a lot in it. It has got a lot more good in it than it has bad in it. Big bills have both…

October is Dyslexia Awareness Month. It is part of the broader Learning Disabilities Month. This is the time we focus on learning disabilities, particularly in our students and our own children and many who suffer from learning…

I thank Ms. Lofgren for yielding, the chair of our wonderful California delegation, the largest Democratic delegation in Congress. When I arrived in Congress in a special election in 1993, Don Edwards was the dean, the chair of the…

I rise on a lighter note, a very positive note because I represent a very beautiful and positive part of the United States: the central coast of California. This is a place where you hear the towns of Santa Cruz, Monterey, Pacific Grove…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Madam Speaker, there has been a lot of talk here about a bill that is only two pages long. You have heard a lot of talk about and a lot of misstatements of fact about Planned Parenthood. But guess…

I don't think anybody on your side has read the bill. It doesn't do anything that you have talked about. It doesn't stop abortions. It doesn't stop any of those other issues that are already illegal. It does one thing: It shuts down…

I have been listening to this debate all day, and I really have to be, I guess, angered by the amount of misstatement of fact here and about this House being so negative about this country and about our President. You can't get away with…

The problem is that this community policing, the problem is this bill just busts all that, all the trust that has been built. As Congresswoman Lofgren said, the San Francisco deal was a big screwup between law enforcement. But don't…