John J. Faso

Today I rise to congratulate two local businesses, craft breweries, within the 19th Congressional District in New York State. These two local breweries, Brewery Ommegang, located in Cooperstown, New York, and Roscoe Beer Company, located…

I would like to draw the House's attention today to the ongoing negotiations between New York City and the States of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania, regarding the Flexible Flow Management Program. The current Flexible…

I hope you will take this back to the Administration and to the President and tell them it is vitally important that we have a stream of workers who can come into the country and perform these seasonal tasks.

I have always thought it is unusual that the same USDA that says you can't sell whole milk or flavored milk, or have it in a lunch program, allows us to purchase $3 billion of soda in the SNAP program.

I wanted to point out to my colleagues that a fundamental change is being made with the new health law we have before us, and that is, we are, for the first time, equalizing the treatment of people who do not have employer-provided health…

SNAP is an efficient and effective program. It alleviates hunger and poverty and has positive impacts on the long-term outcomes of those who receive its benefits.

Maybe a means by which we could perhaps bridge some of the Republican-Democrat philosophical divide would be to actually take savings, if they accrue, and plow them into those kind of efforts.

Here is the crux of the matter, it seems to me, that the public is oftentimes very frustrated by what they perceive to be the abuse of the system.

It is really important that we nourish and allow to prosper this thriving agricultural sector, these small processors, new processors, a lot of young farmers coming in.

There is no doubt that I hear from food pantries and others that the need and the demand for their services are more significant now than they have been in recent years.

The issue to me is U.S. manufacturing. We have clearly a skills gap in our country.

We never want that sickening scenario to occur in this country.

We strongly support the Organic Farmer and Consumer Protection Act introduced by Representative Faso.

My point would be that we have these wonderful academic researchers and experts. Perhaps we could design a study that was statistically valid and which would consider the difficulty that the food merchants have, but also get to the core of…

I represent a district in the Catskills in Mid-Hudson Valley in Upstate New York, and I can tell you I have talked to dozens of dairy farmers and not a single one of them thinks the Margin Protection Program works.

My apologies for not being able to be present for today's recorded votes. My flight from ALB to DCA was cancelled due to a winter storm, and I could make no other flight that would have gotten me to Washington in time. Had I been present…

Well, I look forward to working with the gentleman from Georgia, and I look forward to working with all of my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to try to fix what is wrong with our country today, to improve on what we already have, and…

I appreciate that, and I appreciate the gentleman from Georgia's hospitality in yielding the floor to me at this time. Mr. Speaker, indeed, I am privileged to represent the 19th Congressional District of New York State. This encompasses a…

I thank the new chairman of the Budget Committee for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I have listened to the debate and I understand the difficulty that both sides have with fixing this system. We clearly believe the system needs to be repealed and…