[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 48 (Tuesday, March 19, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H1224]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            NATIONAL AG DAY

  (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, today in the United States it is National 
Agriculture Day. This is a day that we recognize that the food on your 
table came from somewhere, Mr. Speaker, and it isn't just a 
supermarket, or a truck, or maybe even a taco truck like in California. 
No. It came from the hard work of a farmer or a rancher producing for 
all of us.
  One of my goals here as a member of the Agriculture Committee is to 
make sure they can keep producing and keep the food on the table. 
American grown products are of the highest quality and the highest 
responsibility as far as labor, environment, and the whole works.
  Nonetheless, do you know what, Mr. Speaker?
  They still need the tools to be able to do that into the future. We 
need to pass, more immediately, another 5-year farm bill like in my 
home State of California. We also need to have the input. We need to 
have a water supply that is steady and growing. As the population 
grows, we need to increase the State's water supply because more and 
more of it is going to other things than sustaining agriculture which 
has been so strong in the Sacramento Valley, the San Joaquin Valley, 
and the whole State.

  As we celebrate National Ag Day, Mr. Speaker, if there is food on 
your plate, remember it came from a farmer.
  If you are going to complain about the farmer, Mr. Speaker, just 
don't do it with your mouth full.

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