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

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

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.

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.

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

Our problem is not supply--it is distribution.

You have all told heartrending stories of threats by your own government, of everything from jail time to financial ruin.

It seems to me that we are moving more and more toward a European model vision of sovereignty.

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?

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

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

the broadest reasonable interpretation standard should apply to what has already been invented.