Doug LaMalfa

For me it comes down to what provides the most freedom.

We have seen Federal agencies...attack activities that are specifically exempted in the Act, exempted in the Act from regulation, particularly farming activities like maintaining irrigation systems.

this Walden legislation, I think, is perfectly in line with having a better say by your local government

Well, you need to give people an outlet, and they find that there is no outlet.

I always want to take it back to the kitchen table, to our average Americans that hear what goes on with their land, the way it is managed, how it affects their power, its reliability, its costs.

I heard hope in some of what you had to say there, in that--and responsiveness, that you really seem to want to get there with an MOU that is going to work long term.

What I am asking for, Mr. Ashe, as well as two lawsuits currently are underway, or have been brought, to get the job done.

The issue is that we need to build it while the sun shines.

I think this bill, H.R. 3980, could actually be like Moses parting the red tape to get the job done here.

So, as we see with our shortage--I look at it as buckets. The more buckets you have that have stored and been filled to capacity when we have plenty of rain, the longer you can draw up on it.

It makes you wish that back in the day, when things were easy to build, they just built everything, and we would still be enjoying these benefits.

my proposal was to say just put a pause on any spending until a true plan, stem to stern, could be developed.

You know, you would have to pose the question, what is the utility of this project?

Would you like to still go through with this plan, in light of all the other challenges we face...

Indeed, in order to afford to ride high-speed rail, it would have to be subsidized per ticket in the true cost of operating it.

California Legislature being what it is, they are still hell-bent on doing this project as-is.

Thank you all for coming the distance you have come here today, and for fighting back, and for not just taking it sitting down.

It seems to be a shift in opinion by those that govern or regulate us, a different type of people in government these days.

So how can you justify people from stopping at a rest stop or a turnout on a State highway?

the partisan rhetoric just doesn't help a whole lot with that.

I just don't understand the obstructionism.

it seems to me kind of naive, with some of the placement here.

Some have suggested that the way to 'fix' the special entity sub-threshold is for the CFTC to lower the de minimis registration threshold for the entire energy swaps marketplace to $25 million.

I believe that lowering the de minimis threshold for all energy swaps to $25 million would negate the explicit Congressional directive to exclude end-users from the new regulatory requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act.

I think the bill could still be supportable if there was a commitment that the land involved would not be one that would be involved in gaming.