04/17/2012
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"California needs more storage, and that is certainly true. We are waiting and we have waited for 15 years now for Reclamation to complete the feasibility studies on sites Los Vaqueros and Temperance F..."
"I will never forget the Sunday afternoon just over a year ago when we heard that the collapse of Oroville Dam's emergency spillway was imminent. It would threaten 180,000 lives if it collapsed."
"By delaying funds or providing insufficient funds to an ongoing construction project, the total cost of that project is going to go up."
"the Administration's budget request represents a $2 billion or 30 percent cut. That is devastating."