Dana Rohrabacher: “If we store water, that is going to be bad for the environment? I mean, I am sorry. That makes no sense to me. And it…”

“If we store water, that is going to be bad for the environment? I mean, I am sorry. That makes no sense to me. And it doesn't make sense to ordinary people either that after a drought, that in some way it is against the environment to make it easier for us to store water so we don't have to have the same destruction and the same lowering of the standard of living of our poorer people when the next drought comes around. This act by Mr. Tom McClintock, H.R. 1654, will make it easier and quicker for us to build these dams. By the way, if we don't do this, many of those dams will probably be built, only we are talking about the evaporation not of water, but of money. After you have to go through years and years of paperwork, what evaporates is the money that should be going into education and transportation programs. No. It is wrong all the way around not to permit people to go as fast as we can rationally and engineeringwise to build storage for our water supply today so when the next drought comes around, ordinary people won't be hurt.”