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

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.

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?

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

I don't think 30,000 troops solves it. I don't think 10,000.

The presence of our troops there over this last decade has essentially been the driving force of Afghanistan's economy.

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.

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