Dianne Feinstein

I am a big believer in desal. I would like to see it go ahead.

I don't want North Korea with a 6-kiloton nuclear cruise missile.

I think that's very difficult for me. The nonproliferation program request is a $300 million decrease from its peak in fiscal year 2012.

Could the chairman and I and you, could we sit down and discuss this?

I think it is becoming very clear that unless we reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, we are going to see catastrophic sea level rise, devastating droughts, more wildfires, more habitat loss, greater ranges of exposures for disease, and…

For the first time, 195 countries have mutually pledged to constrain their greenhouse gas emissions in order to slow the changes in our climate.

I would like them back in a couple of weeks because there are issues that are pressing.

3 months is more than enough time for us to be able to respond to your questions.

It is my understanding that we must contain temperature rise to 2 degrees or less by 2100 or we court disaster.

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

I believe that Yucca Mountain can and should be part of the solution, but we have more used fuel than Yucca Mountain's legal capacity.

The seismic risk in California is not going down. It is going up.

In a world armed with nuclear weapons, regrettably so, I think that in order to deter nuclear attack or the threat of nuclear attack against us or allies, we need a corresponding nuclear deterrent.

I came away unconvinced of the need for this weapon. The so-called improvements to this weapon seem to be designed candidly to make it more usable, to help us fight and win a limited nuclear war.

I think we ought to take a real look at those subsidies that have existed for more than 20 years.

The question is do they have a design, and I thank you, General, very much.

Thanks very much, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, you and I and certain members in the House of Representatives were able to get $100 million in the omnibus for drought.

As long as we concur that Prisoner's Point is 17 miles from the pumps, right?

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.

Drought is a problem for the whole Government and will require a whole of Government solution.

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

A 23 percent drop in the Corps' budget and a 13 percent drop in Reclamation's budget is simply unacceptable.

I do not think you find that acceptable, and I do not find it acceptable.

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

It seems to me your job is already difficult enough, and I am not pleased to have to play these games with the Administration for yet another year.