Dianne Feinstein

I am disappointed in the proposals from both agencies represented here today.

This is important, so thank you.

I would like to ensure that they proceed as quickly as possible because the seismic risk in California is not going down.

Our economy lost $42.7 billion from the drought last year.

I want to extend my gratitude for your service to this country.

I would appreciate it if you could let me know.

I suggest you use some of the drought $100 million to get it done.

It seems to me that this is an appropriate use of that money, and I would like very much to work with you to see that the appropriate monitoring gets set up as quickly as possible because time is a-wasting.

I do not intend to quit, so I am going to be at this, and there are so many conflicting opinions.

This drought is the hardest thing I have ever done in my 23 years in the Senate.

It is disappointing that every year we go through the same exercise of examining an Army Corps budget that has been cut by over $1 billion from the previous year's enactment level.

I do not want to ask your successor 10 years from now, if I am still alive, what happened.

I continue to hear that water pumping decisions are still being based on when protected fish might be near the pumps rather than when we know they actually are present.

That, as a Californian, is really unacceptable.

You have served with distinction within the Army, both at home and abroad.

I want to ensure that they proceed as quickly as possible, given the seismic risk in California.

I am not ever giving up on King Cove and getting my 10-mile--the people of King Cove a 10-mile, one-lane gravel non-commercial use road.

One El Nino year alone will not be enough to end this drought, and Californians are really hurting.

I want to thank you for your testimony today.

It is a serious problem in our State. We have some 24,422 abandoned mines.

We have 69 California communities that face significant water supply and water quality issues.

Do you believe that the bill, if enacted, would increase operational flexibility and increase water supply during this drought?

I want to thank you for your efforts related to the President's designation of three new national monuments in the California desert.

We have done 26 drafts of that legislation and made 41 amendments to it, as the time has gone on.

The drought has led to a loss of 35,000 permanent jobs in the State.