Doug LaMalfa: “If we want to have a state of readiness, there is so much private equipment--I drove past some in Siskiyou County today.”

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

I am pretty big on the privacy side, sir. So, I think let's design a system where people aren't being followed around even more so just for the Government to take money from them, right.

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.