Doug LaMalfa

You know how uncooperative it feels to my people in my district?

How is that a success, especially if the Federal Government is supposed to be preserving all this land for us?

Every time you turn around they want to make another monument, another wilderness land, another set-aside of some type or another that is supposedly going to preserve something from something.

Rural broadband is very important for folks like Mayers, and telemedicine, and a lot of the other technology to keep rural America hooked up.

I have more confidence with those folks' ability to work with you than I do the EPA.

I want to know that there are protocols to guarantee this in the future, because our growers are, again, growing a high quality product in a more costly atmosphere to do business with, and our kids would want those higher quality products.

How long will it take to get to the 70,000 figure?

This seems like a front company for a process to avoid public scrutiny.

Yes. Bipartisan support to do it----

What he underlines is that the prospective Federal agencies' role in the refusal to declare an end to the drought means a loss of control, power, authority, value, or relevance.

The Sites Project represents the kind of new, smart storage that our state needs.

We need new Federal assistance tools to help local agencies better manage and develop new water supplies critical to a more drought resilient economy.

Sites Reservoir, for example, is foundational to the long-term economic health of our region and the state.

Some of my constituents are continuous cropping on these lands, otherwise you lose your ability to have that exemption.

Will you direct your Agency to cease regulating activities that the Clean Water Act exempts?

So I will look forward to your answers on that.

EPA and Army Corps of Engineers continue to rely upon EPA's interpretation of the Clean Water Act, imposing these regulations that stray far from the Congressional intent.

Nowhere in the law does it specify that, but that is what is being carried out in my district by EPA or your associates.

I had asked for a report a couple months ago from that. So would you please see to it that I can get that report so that I know that our situation there is stable on that?

If you want your outfit to be known as the Entertainment Prevention Agency amongst millions of racers around the country, I would certainly recommend not pursuing that.

A big part of our job should be, and is, government oversight of any program or government operation.

I would be shocked, Mr. Chairman, shocked to hear that politics would be coming out of the Administration or the BIA.

If people want to say that the Constitution and having duly elected officials making the laws through the constitutional process is too politicized, then I guess that is giving up on the American way of doing things.

If there had been a more consistent handling of this, I think, from the BIA and through the Administration, then we probably would not be having this bill, or a need for a bill like this today.

I still think that the founding principles of vesting that power into the lower house first, or even the upper house, the power with the people, instead of ceding that over to a bureaucracy, is going to give the best possible outcome in…