[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 97 (Tuesday, June 7, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H5240]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                             FOOD SECURITY

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, President Biden recently promised us food 
shortages in the United States. This is the country that leads the 
world in production. Well, that is one heck of a campaign promise being 
kept. Food shortages, along with energy skyrocketing; what a reset.
  Indeed, my home State of California, which produces so much of what 
America relies on, due to Federal and State policies, the water has 
been taken away. Up on the Klamath Basin, zero water allocation.
  I just drove around part of my west side of the district the other 
day, and there are miles and miles of open land that is not growing 
rice; that they are trying to put all that water toward trying to keep 
orchards alive. The waterfowl are not coming in. The jobs are not 
happening; all because of a backwards campaign promise, evidently, to 
put food shortages out there for people.
  Empty shelves in the supermarket; it is unbelievable that this is 
what this administration--and what are they doing? What are they doing?
  We are not getting more water facilities built. We are not getting 
more storage made. No, we are just continuing down the same path to try 
and save fish that don't exist in the delta, or that are being marketed 
by people catching them up on the rivers and out in the ocean.
  I guess that is why everybody is leading the charge these days in 
cheering for: Let's go, Brandon.

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