Doug LaMalfa: “I appreciate the strong support that the committee is showing here today.”

When this was passed back in the 1970s by Congress, if Congress would have passed a bill that is being interpreted the way it is now to stop any type of development or farming, those Members of Congress would have gotten thrown out on…

But that costs a lot of money to the taxpayers. We always say Government needs to do something. It is the taxpayers that pays for all of this.

Now, if you were a miner, if you were anybody else, that would probably be life in prison for what they are doing there.

The Clean Water Act and many other environmental measures have been weaponized to stop people from doing most things.