Kevin McCarthy may not be doing the greatest job but he is trying and has done a lot for the people, as for Terry Phillips did anyone really listen to this guy? I'm an Independent and no way would I vote for this guy!

Write a letter to Kevin McCarthy and see what you think of him. The replies, if you get one, are a joke. Obviously no one in his office reads the letters. Look at who donates to his campaign, for example the big bailed out banks, then decide who he really works for? I don't think that he is interested in most of his constituents.

McCarthy has done a great job for us and I see no reason to replace him. He is willing to work in a bipartisan way in Washington and has been successful in many of those efforts. He has been the main voice for the valley on trying to bring our farming back to what it used to be. As for the Pell Grant cuts, like Murph56 said, and I strongly agree, the grants should be paid directly to the schools the grant receivers are attending. My bet is that if it is made a direct to school payment that we would not see any discussion of cutting them at all because most people who get them see them as free money to spend on anything they want. With direct pay, they will loose one more way to fleece the system and we would see the requests for Pell and other grants slow down on their own.

I can see cutting pell grants is BS but when we have people applying for all of these grants and then never going to school after they get the money it makes it harder on the kids that really need the money. They need to apply all of these grants to the school they attend not to the student. I know a few that took the money and went out and purchsed big screens,computer and not for school work, sound systems, etc and never attended school. Now as for the kern country water the farmers are paying for their water and only getting 60% or less so their crops are dying and we are paying for it so I agree with McCarthy on getting out water back. But the day anyone in office does everything to help the people the world would sure to end the next day! It's not going to happen and unions will see to that!