David Valadao
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David Valadao is an American politician serving as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives for California's 22nd congressional district. He was first elected to Congress in 2012 and has served since January 3, 2013, with a brief hiatus from 2019 to 2021. Valadao has been involved in various legislative efforts, particularly focusing on issues related to agriculture, water resources, and healthcare. He is known for his bipartisan approach and has worked on initiatives to support the Central Valley's agricultural community.
If you subtract the water that is sent out to the ocean for the environment you can look at it that way.
I appreciate every effort you have made to try to resolve the situation we have in California.
For the Central Valley Project, out of that $100 million in drought funding, we allocated $37.9 million to that.
The Corps and the EPA joined forces--no, that is not the right word--the Corps surrendered to the EPA.
CVPIA sets an ambitious goal to at least double the populations... Is it a good idea for us to spend taxpayer resources to protect or add to the population of the striped bass?
So in--back to those projects and what was mentioned about the water plan, we are at very low levels in a lot of those reservoirs.
And totally off the wall question here, but I did a flyover with some folks over some of our reservoirs over this past summer.
This administration has been relentlessly targeting coal operations, kowtowing to and coordinating with extreme environmental organizations.
Under Section 404 of the Clean Water Act, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers can issue general permits that authorize activities that have minimal, individual, and cumulative adverse environmental effects.
the severe chronic water supply shortages affecting the Central Valley Project have been the result of drought, not regulation.





