mr. valadao: so this week my bill comes up. this bill is something that's very personal to me because i'm a farm. i grew up in the central valley. decided to run for congress. but my background is still agriculture, i still farm to this day. and watching all my friends and neighbors, the people living in my community, suffer because of the regulations that are passed by this building, we're trying to change that. we've got a new piece of legislation that really makes a difference but to the folks who live in the valley, when you look around to all the folks who have now lost their jobs, i mean, we've got people living in shacks alongside of the road and it's gotten to that point where we're trucking water to some of these homes. it's a real dire situation. and for most people around the nation, they think this doesn't affect them, you've got to remember that we grow food. we grow food for everybody around the nation. this is having a real impact. i know every mother, every father out there, when they're budgeting what money the

mr. valadao. . mr. valadao: i want to thank so many on both sides of the aisle who worked hard on this legislation. we spent months working on it. we crafted it throughout the beginning of this congress and it's been an important bill and it's going to continue to be an important bill. we look forward to seeing who has the courage to stand up and actually vote to help the folks of california. when we see the situation that's going on out there in the valley, and we see the faces of these people standing in those food lines, the people that worked so hard for so many years to help build farms to help build businesses for their families and we see those farm workers who have come and had the opportunity to put their kids through school, many of them end up in really great places. some of them in congress like myself. when you see so many different opportunities that come from the valley, and when we have a situation like we have today where we've literally been cut off from water, we've had years in the pa

mr. valadao. mr. valadao: i hear on the other side that there's no solutions in this bill solutions that help deliver water that frustrates me to no end. there are a lot of solutions that have a lot of support. we also here the delta smelt has had no impact on dumping this water out of the delta when the bureau of reclamation say about a million acre-feet annually between the central valley project. that's a government agency that's doing the restrict that's telling them. every year we hear another three fish were caught in the pumps and they're counts and they're stargetting to figure out when to turn the pumps off again. this doesn't have an impact on farmworkers. farm workers aren't looking for a handout. they're tired of taking -- sitting at home and taking a check. they want to produce. they want to walk into a grocery store with the money they earned and purchase products they were involved in growing. that's a sign of the american dream. that's a sign of being able to produce and being a product

mr. valadao: we have new leadership there and i do believe there's a real opportunity to get it done. the bill's going to pass the way it passes in its current form off the house floor. what happens in the senate is still up in the air. we do believe we have some support over there. questioner: [inaudible] speaker boehner: i wonder if she brought her emails with her. questioner: [inaudible] speaker boehner: there were an awful lot of if's and and's and but's there so i think i'll pass on that. welcome to the capitol. if hillary clinton wants the benghazi committee to finish their work, she could help them by turning over all of her emails sooner rather than later. questioner: last week -- [inaudible] speaker boehner: we had a very good meeting with the chairman last week and frankly the week before. there's a lot of issues that -- a lot of moving parts around here. i think he understands that it may not have been his preference, but it's clearly the congress' preference in terms of how we proceed. spending was offset by other reductions in mandatory spending and we have a good relatio

mr. david valadao. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for four minutes. mr. valadao: thank you the gentleman from washington for his help with this important legislation. a little bit on the history of the valley and area i represent. that area's an area filled with immigrants. when you look at my district and look at the people i represent, 80% are minority. one of the reasons i feel that i have the opportunity to be elected and honor being able to represent that district is because of my own background. my dad came to this country in 1969 as a new immigrant, didn't speak english as well as he should and still o to -- to this day speaks with a strong accent. but my dad started working in plants and trying to save money so he could start his own farm someday and give us the opportunity to have the american dream. he learned to speak spanish working alongside a lot of hispanic folks and working really hard and saving his money. he had the opportunity to save enough money