We have to find a way to work around the Endangered Species Act and other environmental laws that are set in place for obviously good reasons but can be challenging and cumbersome to actually get good work done on the ground to enhance…

I share your frustration as well on getting permitting done to do some of the other things we need to do.

So please, anybody on the panel that was-- you are nodding your head, too--send your thoughts along as I have run myself out of time here.

Yes, indeed, had California been required to do the high-speed rail--I call it high-cost rail--project on its own without Federal help.

Although the 2020 Navigable Water Protection Rule finally provided long-awaited clarity on the scope of WOTUS, the new Administration has decided to unravel this rule, once again creating confusion and chaos.

The marijuana is running rampant with cartels.

We have multinational cartels up there getting away with this as farms go dry, and even water for fire suppression is taken away.

a one-size-fits-all--if government ends up, because of this climate change situation, forcing this on farmers, we are going to be in a bad way in this country as our people and others around the world look to us

It was sold to the voters then in 2008 as a $33 billion project with the possibility of adding also a Sacramento and a San Diego spur.

So, the Secretary of Transportation has called for railroads to improve their service levels.

We have a lot of ability in this country to make up for imports.

This is a critical situation. So, we need not be just looking into it.