David Valadao: “Did you plan for this? Did you budget for this accordingly, or did you wait for the last minute and kind of take a…”

The regulation requires that railroads operating in California must quickly begin adopting zero emission technology for locomotives, technology that is currently not commercially available.

California is in its second consecutive wet year. Every major reservoir in our State is above the 15-year average, and our snowpack in the Sierras is at more than 100 percent of average for this time of year. These conditions should mean…

I urge my colleagues to support this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

My amendment would add the text of my bill, the bipartisan Headwaters Protection Act, to the Fix Our Forests Act. This commonsense language is led by my colleague from California (Mr. Costa) and myself, and it has bipartisan support. It…