I'm convinced, that instead of spending another half trillion dollars of taxpayer money on a questionable stimulus plan, Congress needs to help private industry create more jobs by reducing the burden of over-regulation.

If this action by the Fish and Wildlife Service continues, we will not have the water to grow.

hold them accountable for the damage they have done

this Subcommittee must take notice.

I applaud them for their efforts, and I thank them for their leadership on this issue.

These ideologues abandoned projects in mid-construction.

arbitrary and capricious manner

This policy has laid waste to a quarter-million acres of the most fertile farmland in America.

There is talk about a bond to build additional projects, which I think need to be built, expand the--build the site's reservoir expansion, storage, Shasta, the Upper San Joaquin, more efficient utilization of the pumps, diversion around…

I want to make a point about Judge Wanger. I am glad the Chairman--his reputation is unblemished.

Do you believe there could be an effect on how you operate this billion-dollar enterprise that the taxpayers pay for?

This project that Mr. Lewis and myself and others over the years have protected and tried to get completed, the all-river plan...

If you think, for years we talked about trying to transition the Inland Empire from a bedroom community supplying jobs to the coastal communities...

I think we can all agree up here, I think we can all agree in the audience, additional water deliveries from the Delta is not certain.

the Service's decision totally disregards the scientific and economic realities of the Inland Empire

I do not believe that managing America's natural resources and promoting America's continued economic prosperity are mutually exclusive.

Jerry Lewis, Joe Baca, and I all represent this area along the Santa Ana River, and we are all joined together, Republican and Democrat, concerned about the economic future of this region.

I am concerned that the revised critical habitat designation for the Santa Ana Sucker could become the Inland Empire's 'Delta Smelt'--and cripple our region's economic engine.