Our problem is not supply--it is distribution.

Cheaper water is better than more expensive water.

What we suffer is a super abundance of bureaucracy and a catastrophic shortage of vision and political will. That is what has to change.

The purpose of today's hearing is to identify the current impediments to increasing water storage and hydropower capacity, and to look at new concepts on the construction of smaller high elevation dams.

More water is better than less water.

The status quo is simply not working and the purpose of today's hearing is to chart a path that leads us to a new era of abundance.

Western irrigated agriculture is a strategic national resource, and the role of the Federal Government in the 21st century should be to protect and enhance that resource.

there is a little bit of revisionist history going on here.

limiting what we're doing to help al-Sisi defend himself against radical Islam and defend Egypt against radical Islam--limiting that is harming his ability to defeat an enemy that affects our own national security

how can you justify not giving them the weapons they need to defeat the radical Islamicists that will change the nature of that situation?

the future of Egypt is vitally important to the stability of a huge section of the planet

we're just going to let them run down until--and the word that we're giving them and we're sending the Islamicists oh, don't worry, we're not going to give them any new weapons.

we're leaving them hanging out to dry.

CO2 is not toxic. It is not a pollutant.

That is really an important distinction, and certainly, the Court did not mandate that they take steps to take the CO2 out of energy production, did they, or did they say that has to be considered but they didn't say they have to do it?

It is based on a world climate theory, not on a personal health concept.

It is no longer acceptable to the people of the United States to be the policemen of the world.

How much does it cost to have 1,000 troops in Afghanistan? You are advocating 30,000 residual troops. How much would it cost?