Doug LaMalfa: “I find it fascinating that the comfort level with which urban legislators can just dismiss what the impact is...”

Last year, we were able to fill San Luis Reservoir 100 percent. This year, there was a vast amount, like 95 percent, of cut-down in running the pumps.

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

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.

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…