Political Quotes

“Next, we have possibly the only rice farmer that I know in Congress and that I probably ever will know, and that is my good friend, Doug LaMalfa, from the great State of California's First District. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. LaMalfa). Mr. LaMALFA. Madam Speaker, I appreciate my colleague from Tennessee with that very warm introduction and allusion to the fact that we do produce food in California when we are given the water that we already own to do so, but that is a little different supply chain discussion that we could be having tonight. {time} 2015 I want to focus this evening on the border situation that is unnecessarily wide open. It doesn't have to be this way. It is just inattention to enforcing the laws and doing the things you would normally do to maintain a border. We have millions of dollars' worth of steel fence material laying in piles down there next to the border that could be used to fill some obvious gaps that would make it so much easier for Customs and Border Patrol to do their jobs that they would like to do. Morale down there, of course, is really bad amongst our officers, just for inability to do their job effectively, and not being supported by this Federal Government and this administration.…”