I understand that. I am really interested in specifics in the program, perhaps you can arrange a briefing for me on that.

We cannot have this kind of thing happen, and what I would like to ask that you do is once again take a good look at it and see whatever gauges we have are working correctly, and this does not happen again.

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Thank you, Madam Secretary, for being here. With all the events that we have watched, you are doing a very good job, and that is very much appreciated.

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.

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

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

I cannot express too strongly how serious this drought is for California.

I hope that we can keep our questions relatively limited to the need for this particular session and our budget--our appropriations bill.

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

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

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.

This is important, so thank you.

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

I want to thank you for your testimony today.

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

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

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

I am concerned that Reclamation has pumped less water in 2016 during this El Nino year than it did in 2015.

That will require $118 million just to complete the inventory.

I think they are doing very good work, but they are not the law, and this is the law.

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

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