"I am from Arizona and we drink whiskey because water is for fighting over."
"Water is serious business in the West."
"I applaud your effort, and I am looking very forward to seeing a government closest to the people."
"So, almost 99 percent of that jurisdiction is west of the Mississippi, right?"
"The swamp wants to keep centralized control over everything, instead of what is best is politics that are driven locally."
"This hearing is yet another example of Democrats on this Committee wasting time on political theater."
"If we want to scrutinize science manipulation, then we should point the finger where it belongs."
"Let's not forget Dr. Houser, the Reclamation Science Integrity Officer, who was shoved out the door when he started reporting fraudulent science."
"This is a bogus probe by the Democrats on this Committee that involved a potential twin metals mine in Minnesota."
"what the Obama administration did with this 425,000 acre land grant in northern Minnesota...was not based on science or process, and was purely a political decision."
"When you have good process, you build good policy, it builds good politics, plain and simple."
"The whole deal with the Paris Climate Accord was that the United States was going to pay for it."