Alan Lowenthal actually said...

I think this is a model for the way the legislature should work, and I am proud to be part of this subcommittee and to state that.

What do I go home and tell the people in Los Angeles? Where is that focus?

I would like to step back and look at this in terms--as the only Representative here on the panel from southern California.

This discussion draft makes a clear statement: our shared public lands and waters are only worth the oil and gas that we can wring out of th...