"We support your efforts and this legislation as a means of providing greater flexibility in the management of Central Valley Project."
"We appreciate your leadership in advancing this legislation and addressing California water issues so important to our collective future."
"Thank you for introducing legislation authorizing and establishing a permanent long-term program to promote and manage water transfers."
"Your legislation will provide immediate, much needed relief in the form of a flexible and useful tool."
"I spoke to Senator Leahy yesterday and indicated that we would like to work together, if possible, so we do not get into battles of sequential referrals and that kind of thing."
"the Mexican Government is very concerned about the massive importation of guns from the United States into Mexico. Big guns, too."
"Earlier this year, my Senate colleagues and I wrote to you to request a more coordinated response to conflicts between the military mission and wind power."
"We are the only industrialized nation on Earth that does not provide performers with a full performance right."
"Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and I very much agree with your comments, and I do agree that the time is now and that we need to know what the concerns are."
"The way I would like to proceed, ladies and gentlemen, is to ask each witness to confine your opening statement to 5 minutes."
"This lack of a public performance right for sound recordings is a huge international embarrassment."
"The best rate standard for all radio platforms is fair market value, as you proposed, Madam Chairwoman, in the Perform Act."