I would hope, though, Mr. McConnell, that you could comment on something I think you and I may agree upon, which is that sequestration has affected our ability to make necessary investments in technology when it comes to carbon capture…

Global climate change is one of the greatest challenges that we face.

Global climate change, though, is one of the greatest challenges that we face.

We must take steps to ensure that we are reducing greenhouse gas emissions and lessening their impact on human health, the environment, and the global climate.

If we don't take steps to halt this change, the repercussions for humans and the environment will be catastrophic.

I have repeatedly said that I am for an 'all of the above' approach to energy production as we transition to clean energy technologies.

It seems to be a shift in opinion by those that govern or regulate us, a different type of people in government these days.

Thank you all for coming the distance you have come here today, and for fighting back, and for not just taking it sitting down.

We need to get the feasibility studies complete so we can then determine the cost feasibility.

If we are going to agree on what our deficits are... wet water is wet water.

The Endangered Species Act... has gone in the directions that many of us would not like to see it today.

Improving air quality and reducing greenhouse emissions is a matter that is vitally important to my constituents in Riverside County.

Raising Shasta is a good project. Temperance Flat I think has merit.

Well, should an economically viable water project not pay for itself?

Just in that single watershed, 30 potential sites. So suitable geological sites are not in short supply.

Thank you very much.

What can you recommend to us as changes that need to be made at the Federal level to bring about this new era of water storage?

If the climate continues to warm, as it has been on and off since the last Ice Age, snow packs will not be holding water as long.