Doug LaMalfa: “I appreciate it, Madam Chair, and for your appearance today, Ms. Lago, and I will yield back.”

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

So, better water years typically result in better fish runs is a pretty safe conclusion, I would say.

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…