Political Quotes

“It is about government control. I thank the gentleman for his work on that, and we urge our colleagues to support the bill. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. LaMalfa), the gentleman from the northern portion of California. Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. I just happen to be speaking about the subject of California. Now, California is a beautiful place, beautiful climate and terrain and territory. It is just that its politics have gotten so upside down in the last--pick a number of years--40 years, 50 years. I am not really there to serve the people anymore but to serve climate agendas and other crazy agendas I will not go into here tonight. I live in the rural part of California. I like to say, I live in the normal part still in the far north where we farm and we ranch--we still attempt to do mining--in order to produce the products that city people need. If they didn't have us around to do those things then, I don't know--they want to, I guess, import all of it, which seems to be the direction here. Let's import it all from China. One of the interesting things--I won't say funny, although the people watching might think it is funny because we do this to ourselves--but our California Air Resources Board released a rule requiring all new cars in California that will be sold new to be zero-emission vehicles by 2035.…”