Sam Farr

As co-chair of the Congressional Travel and Tourism Caucus, I am pleased to see the House of Representatives take up the Travel Promotion, Enhancement, and Modernization Act of 2014 today. I want to thank my caucus co-chair, Rep. Gus…

Thank you for yielding. Madam Chair, this bill has in its title ``America That Works.'' It is not going to work with this provision in it, and that is why the bill fails. I think year after year of failing and failing is a policy of upward…

Well, I am not sure that I understand the gentleman's question, but there are different kinds of data, and there are different places that you collect that data, as there is in everything we do in government and the private sector. I think…

It is often said as a food analogy that if you like sausages or laws you should never watch either of them being made. Perhaps what you are watching is that white potato mandate is getting stuck into this bill.

Thank you for asking. The other provision is not in this school nutrition program, but in the WIC--the Women, Infants, and Children--program where we give vouchers to mothers of newborns or pregnant women in expectation that they are…

I rise having cosponsored this bill as the ranking member on the Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee. I have to say that I think we have worked very well together. We have worked together as chair and ranking member over a period of…

May I inquire as to how much time each side has remaining? The CHAIR. The gentleman from California (Mr. Farr) has 12\1/2\ minutes remaining, and the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Holt) has 3\1/2\ minutes remaining.

First of all, I would like to announce that the Tom Colicchio group-- he is one of those celebrity chefs and his group is called the Food Policy Action Network--they have told us that they are going to score the vote on this bill because…

How much time do I have remaining so I can see how much time I can yield? The CHAIR. The gentleman from California has 4\1/2\ minutes remaining.

We worked hard to try to put together a pretty good bill, except for these two provisions that we were just talking about and the underfunding of the Federal Commodities Futures Trading Commission, and we will be having amendments on those…

I respect the gentleman's desire to cut, squeeze, and trim and be a deficit hawk, but I think you are really cutting the wrong area. There are a lot of statistical departments in the Department of Agriculture because it is involved with a…

Let me explain that not a drop of this money, a cent of it, can be spent on a teacher's salary. This is not, ``We are going to spend it on food or a teacher's salary.'' This is only for food, and the Federal Government takes sole…

Let's be very practical about this. I think you have to put it in the context of what has happened. We passed the Dodd-Frank bill because of an incredible financial disaster in this country, and what we found out is that the regulators…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Chair, I rise in general debate to talk about NOAA. But I first also want to echo everything that has been said about our great colleague from Virginia, Frank Wolf. Frank is one of the few Members…

Rep. Farr's H.R. 1776 would fix all of these shortcomings.

Representative Farr's H.R. 1776 would fix all of these short-comings.

This bill truly represents a bipartisan collaboration and I am proud to have them join me in working to advance this modest bill.

I hope we can move this legislation, so that the 50,000 riders that enjoyed the Clear Creek Management Area in 2003 can do so again in 2014.

We cannot support provisions in the bill that could increase the exposure of public land users and employees to naturally occurring asbestos.

The BLM appreciates the work by Congressman Farr on H.R. 1776.

Thank you. I am glad to see this bill has been protected from senseless budget cuts. I strongly encourage this Congress to honor the balanced approach that this bill shows in the bipartisan Budget Control Act that we adopted last year…

Because it is prohibited by Federal law and I happen to be in a State where Federal law ignores this because law enforcement, medical folks, it is part of our system. We have worked out the regulations. You don't see the Feds coming in and…

Yes. And so you are going to have the doctor say: I am sorry, you are in a Federal facility. I can't talk to you about a prescription of medical marijuana, even though you have asked the question. I can answer your question about…

Thank you very much, Ranking Member Bishop and Chairman Culberson. I rise as the longest serving member on this subcommittee, and I want to commend you both, the chairman and the ranking member, for your hard work in ensuring that this…

I couldn't disagree more with my respected chairman. This is really a medical issue that ought to be in the hands of medical doctors. It does not allow them to prescribe marijuana. They can prescribe Oxycontin. What this amendment does, it…