Senator Jeff Denham
Senator Jeff Denham was elected to the California 12th Senate District in November of 2002. Now in his third year in office, Senator Denham has focused his efforts on education, agriculture, and Workers' Compensation reform. He has been a leading voice in the effort to liquidate state surplus properties and reduce government waste in Sacramento. He serves as the Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman and Vice Chairman of Government Organization.
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Articles by Senator Jeff Denham
July 31, 2007
Lost in all the rhetoric and false accusations about the Governor’s proposal to reform CALWORKS (the state’s welfare system) are the facts. While the liberal Democrat leadership of the Senate and Assembly try to portray this proposal conforming to federal law as somehow throwing single mothers and ...
January 13, 2006
The Governor kicked the year off with a powerful State of the State Address with numerous challenges for legislators to jointly accomplish. He followed that speech by announcing the proposed 2006-07 budget focusing on state priorities, including transportation and education. I strongly believe that ...
November 23, 2005
When you first think about it, testing all of our cattle for “Mad Cow”, also known as Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), may sound like such a good idea. But when you look closer, does testing every single American cow really make sense?
In August, I chaired an informational hearing exam...
October 14, 2005
California is a growing state. Every year we are fighting more traffic on the highways and seeing more new housing developments than ever before. As our population grows and we develop more land for houses and industry, we are also losing a real jewel of California - our agriculture lands. As the...
August 18, 2005
Nearly a year and a half ago amid hearing reports of a bureaucratic nightmare in relation to the state government's management of its vehicle fleet, I requested an audit of how the state handles its car procurement and use. The discussion started after we began investigating how the state utilizes i...
August 03, 2005
As many farmers know all too well, catching thieves who steal farm equipment, chemicals, crops, and livestock is extremely difficult. Individuals engaged in agricultural crime, also known as "rural crime," are generally well organized and have the advantage of operating in territory where there are...