Honorable Tony Cardenas
United States Representative, California, Democrat
Representative Cardenas, of the Twenty-Ninth District of California, has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2013. He served in the California State Assembly from 1996 to 2002 and as a Member of the Los Angeles City Council from 2003 to 2013. He sits on the Energy and Commerce Committee and is an Assistant Minority Whip. The following is from the July 16, 2015, House floor debate on H.R. 2898, the Western Water and American Food Security Act. What we have here is a failure to communicate, a failure to communicate our priorities, but, more importantly, as legislators, a…