Doug LaMalfa

I will be looking at my 'USA made' label rules real carefully over time as well.

Do you see a stronger enforcement mechanism over fraud on the oil that is imported under false pretense?

the stuff they sell us may be a sensitive issue as well. I mean, their consumers would like to buy this product.

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

some of my colleagues expressed some concern or even a little dismay at how that has gone

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

The other 96 will just be left to turn back into snags and grow into brush and become the next tinderbox for the next round of fire because the government can't manage its land and refuses to do so.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

So I will look forward to your answers on that.

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

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

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

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…

We are impugning the entire foundation of what this country, this institution, this House of Representatives, is founded on when we make statements like that.

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.