"opening statement"
"Today we are reviewing access to the nation's voluntary conservation programs."
"If you all want to talk about wanting to have cleaner running trucks on the road immediately, especially with CARB coming down on California truckers on January 1, just days away from now, and you mak..."
"To continue down this road--basically you get to Bakersfield 20 minutes sooner than you would have for many billions of dollars and much ag land lost and parts of cities effected."
"Thank you, Madam Chair Spanberger, for holding today's hearing, and the way we conduct this Committee. I really appreciate it."
"We are here, of course, as you mentioned, to examine the benefits of precision agriculture on conservation, which is indeed one of the many tools we have at our disposal to help improve conservation p..."
"Indeed, rapid advances in technology over the last several years--I would say several decades--has made precision agriculture more important because of the benefits it will provide."
"Precision agriculture has increased productivity and in my own experience growing rice with fewer inputs required on our land, water savings, less fertilizer, less pesticides needed."
"We need real solutions. We have a treasure. We have a national treasure in the San Joaquin Valley, and to see it sit idle because of a lack of water is wrong."
"We have the opportunity to raise Shasta Dam 18, 600,000 more acre feet on those years that it would fill."
"The issue in northern California has been pretty tough the last couple years, starting with the Oroville Dam..."
"We need much more action by the Forest Service to be inclined to do more on forest management."