I would certainly invite her to come to California's Central Valley, where the ESA has required the diversion, literally, of billions of gallons of water.

This bespeaks a complete lack of balance in addressing the issue, and an ideological extremism that is utterly breathtaking in its scope.

It seems to me the only difference between a hatchery fish and a wild-born fish is the difference between a baby born at home and a baby born at the hospital.

When you have a less-than-3 percent--perhaps even 1 percent recovery after all the tens of billion dollars spent by government, and probably the hundreds of billions of dollars, maybe trillions, of economic activity that has been lost over that 40 years, do we call that a success?

So, what you have here is a trust problem.

The excuse is because of a catastrophic decline in the salmon population on the Klamath.

We want a super-abundance of these species, which, it seems to me, we can produce at far lower cost than the extensive and expensive measures required by ESA.

You testified--conceded that you made at least two solicitations of donations to Enroll America.

I was particularly troubled by misinformation that circulated after the Boston Marathon bombings.

We cannot underestimate the value of useful, accurate information before, during, and after a disaster. It can save lives.

Madam Secretary, what, in your opinion, was the biggest reason or need for Obamacare or this health care law?

Would you be willing to make that legal opinion available to the committee?

So if health care officials say they felt pressured to make donations to Enroll America your response would be what, that they are just too easily pressured or that they misunderstood the conversation?

I'm very concerned that at a time when there is general agreement that we need to grow the physician workforce because of the aging of the baby boomers, the Administration is actually proposing cutting Medicare's support for teaching hospitals and the critical services they provide.

So if there are published reports that you solicited funds from health care companies those would be inaccurate?

What specific code section are you relying on?

Who were the other phone calls to, Madam Secretary? You said you made other phone calls.

We must take some reasonable steps to assure that the users of social media have a clear understanding of privacy rights and protections.