Thirty billion dollars for 30,000 extra troops in Afghanistan. The whole gross national product of that country is $15 billion.

We have forced on these people a system totally inconsistent with their tradition.

We are borrowing money from China in order to maintain a force in Afghanistan.

I am confused about your testimony saying that you are anticipating zero percent because that is very alarming.

I find it rather significant that you did not identify any specific location where the theoretical high elevation storage would happen.

I was interested that in your testimony you did not identify a single river or a single location for these facilities.

What is the number? You said there is 18 million in outflow, 18 million acre-feet in outflow. How much do you think you could actually capture in upstream?

I want to respectfully push back a little bit against the idea that it is somehow environmental regulations or environmental standards that are holding up the possibility of constructing lots of new dams.

Have you looked at water rights? Have you looked at downstream beneficial uses?

But my question is: have you analyzed how much of it is actually available for the conceptual high elevation storage that you are talking about today?

The fact is the most cost effective dams in California and in other parts of this country were built a long time ago.

I am not aware of a single dam, at least in California, maybe throughout the West, that actually has the financing in place to happen and is being held up because of environmental requirements.

There are so many conservation strategies that we have pioneered in recent decades that do produce more water.

I think our Federal Government, our Federal land managers, should always be good neighbors.

Our Federal Government should always be a good neighbor, should always comply with the law.

I don't think any economists believe that that's going to do anything to spark the Egyptian economy.

I would just urge the administration to reconsider its decision to withhold the sale of weapons systems...

It's not just the roadmap. It's not just a constitution and a referendum and an election.