Devin Nunes: “I want to thank the chairman for allowing me to speak on this important bill. Mr. Speaker, today we are going to hear…”

“I want to thank the chairman for allowing me to speak on this important bill. Mr. Speaker, today we are going to hear, Mr. Speaker, a lot of falsehoods. But we need to get to the bottom of why are we hearing those falsehoods, because, for 40 years in this body, people have made a career of using water as a weapon. Why? Because they never liked the fact that farmers and farm workers were making what was once a dry area of the State the Garden of Eden of this world. They never liked that. Why? Because they don't want to have to admit to themselves, when they live in their beautiful cities of Hollywood and San Francisco and all these great cities that are on the coast of California, beautiful areas, it is a desert. They don't have any water either. So they wanted to keep our area, where I grew up, they wanted to keep it as a desert because they feel bad about the destruction that they have done on the coast of California. So if they can keep inland California in its original state, they would be happy with that. But for the farmers and the farmworkers that are losing their farms, farmworkers are out of jobs. We are going to lose 30,000 jobs probably this year. It is an inconvenient truth that for 40 years this body has been preempting State law and taking water away from one region and dumping it and wasting it out to the ocean. You started with the Endangered Species Act, State preemption.…”