Candidly, I find that unacceptable.

I appreciate the fact that you are taking action to capture more water from this week's storms.

California could never get its fair share back.

Well, when will the first competitive launches begin? And how many launches, for the record, will be competitive at that time?

Okay. Fair enough. Thank you.

I rise to join Senators Cardin and Schatz in introducing the Energy Efficiency Tax Incentives Act. This bill has been drafted cooperatively, and my colleagues have been especially accommodating of changes requested by California's experts…

The program is estimated to cost over $70 billion through 2030.

If you can devise a sharing ratio for this, this funding that is based on what States pay in.

I think that we should have some discussions among us on a bipartisan basis as to how we might be able to be of more help.

We are the biggest ag State in the country. It is a $50 billion industry.

I have a bill that I have introduced.

So is that all you are doing? There are other things in our bill--keeping open the cross-delta channels, the one-for-one release ratio. Is any of that being done?

It is now raining in California, and we need to take advantage of that water.

I very much believe that the need is there.

The California Water Project has a zero allocation.

I have never seen a drier Central Valley.

Just one comment, and this isn't your problem. It is ours.

I am fully supportive of this, and I want you to know that.

I want to talk about John Owens, who is the first vote, for a judgeship, particularly one for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. No one questions his qualifications. I spoke on the floor about him before. I was proud to…

I have come to the floor to urge my colleagues to support the nomination of John Owens to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. This was approved by the Judiciary Committee without dissent. I would like to quickly mention his…

I have long supported the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Mars exploration program.

Now that we have seen that conviction rates have been higher in Federal criminal courts than in Military Commissions, aren't there some GTMO detainees who we would be better off prosecuting in Federal criminal court, especially for…

This may be the last opportunity we have to get enough additional water to make the five points in the drought bill that Senator Boxer and I have introduced.

this may be the last opportunity we have to get enough additional water to make the five points in the drought bill that Senator Boxer and I have introduced

I would like to ask that now, of both you and your distinguished Commissioner of Reclamation.