John McCain actually said...

This is a real emergency crisis in California of proportions the likes of which we have not seen in that State.

The environmental community has more influence here than those 40,000 families who have lost their jobs.

the state is not empowered to address some issues such as the Endangered Species Act and others that are Federal law.

So really what we're doing is maybe not endangering the existence of human beings, but certainly we are endangering their way of life that, ...