Devin Nunes

Once again, I want to bring up this issue that the minority continues to ignore. They don't want to talk about this, and I don't understand why. They care about this freshwater. They also care about the environment, but they dammed up…

Once again I want to talk about the water exports. You saw this earlier. Here are the water exports, Mr. Chairman, right here at the bottom. The green line represents the inflows to the delta. You can see that most of the water, in fact…

Once again, I will say that delta communities are protected in this bill. They're concerned about water quality. This bill allows water to move through the delta. They're concerned about maintaining their ability to divert water. This bill…

This debate is really incredible. There is nothing about veteran cemeteries in this bill. I can understand why the minority would want to talk about veterans, because we love our veterans in this country and we do everything to support…

Once again, I don't believe the other side has read the bill. This bill provides for the ultimate protections for delta communities--ultimate protections that guarantee their God-given right to their property and to their water. That's…

The gentleman from California (Mr. Denham) just made a very important point. Silicon Valley gets their water from Hetch Hetchy. San Francisco gets their water from Hetch Hetchy. What's Hetch Hetchy? Hetch Hetchy was dammed up. It's in…

We don't need any fancy speeches here today. A sixth-grader from an elementary school in my district--I won't read the whole thing--sent this letter: Not only does this problem affect the farming industry, it also affects the farmers…

I would like to remind the gentleman from California that facts are a funny thing, and the Deputy Under Secretary approved this bipartisan agreement in 1994. I remind the gentleman also that I defended his right in the Rules Committee. I…

I appreciate the gentleman admitting that he was the Under Secretary at the time, and he failed to implement the agreement that everyone came together and agreed upon. Now, earlier, we had the gentleman from California, who was the author…

Their sacrifices have done nothing to improve the environment. Fish populations have declined, and I think what we will prove today here in the Congress is that there is a better path forward, and H.R. 1837 provides that path forward. So I…

I was asking my good friend from Colorado to enter into a colloquy with me, and that's okay. But I do want to say that the gentleman from Colorado and myself work in a bipartisan manner. We're both cochairs of the Mexico-U.S. Caucus. We've…

Will the gentleman yield for a colloquy, please? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Colorado controls the time.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just want to remind my colleagues of Dr. Peter Gleick--we haven't heard from him today--Dr. Peter Gleick, the man who comes to testify in Congress before the committee to tell us why it's so important that we…

Why did they move in 1992 to 25 years? Conveniently that made it very hard for farmers to get loans on their land, especially when they were not sure if they were going to have a water supply. That's what this bill tries to fix. That's why…

Here we have evidence of this. You can see the bass--I know this is a little gruesome for some folks at home. Here you have the smelt inside the bass. Yet this government is allowing this nonnative species to eat the thing that they so…

Once again, as many of my colleagues will say, Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt made a deal with Republican Governor Pete Wilson. A deal is a deal. The only problem was that there were some dishonest brokers at the table who never…

the United States didn't develop a space program or a national highway system with the words 'can't,' and some of the words I have heard this morning.

To achieve the same capacity as high-speed rail of what it would provide, California would need to construct 2,300 new lanes of--2,300 new miles of highway, 115 additional gates at California airports, and 4 airport runways.

I think you are headed in the right direction, as to focus the dollars where they can do the most good.

Our country cannot move forward now with projects like this that are well intended and, yes, visionary.

Thanks to the stimulus grant, the Golden State's high-speed rail project has become nationally recognized as the Train to Nowhere.

The California project is turning out to be an additional disaster in a long list of projects touted for high-speed rail.

The reality is that these jobs claims are part of a fantasy.

Unfortunately, the entire high-speed rail program has turned into sort of a bait and switch operation.

But we must have the courage to say that we need high-speed rail.