Zoe Lofgren actually said...

"Of particular interest to my district- and especially the rural parts of my district- is the subseasonal to seasonal forecasting that enables communities, water resource managers, and farmers to plan ..."

"Now, where agriculture is particularly important in my district, there isn't a sector of our economy that doesn't use the National Weather Service's data and data products."

"Even as climate change is accelerating beyond predictions of just a few years ago, we still have a long way to go to build a robust national climate service."

"I'll express some disappointment that progress that I expected to have been made by now has not yet been made."