"The levees date from the 1870's when farmers began building nearly 1,100 miles of protection around the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta."
"Robert Bea, professor of engineering at the University of California-Berkeley, warns in terms of damage, deaths, and long-term costs, a rupture of the delta levees would be far more destructive than w..."
"A flood in the Sacramento region would be devastating to 1.4 million people who live in our metropolitan area."
"We maintain a competitive advantage. As a scientist myself, as someone who spent countless hours in the lab..."
"Now, to start off with, I would want to make sure we don't give the impression that our scientific community and our research institutions are producing faulty data."
"Anti-Semitism and hate crimes continue to plague our nation and the world."
"America's pivot to Asia is critical at this juncture and is a much needed evolution of our foreign policy."
"I would ask our Committee to look at returning veterans, men and women who have already shown their patriotism to this country."