George Miller: “This is about the excesses where a State and its population reach a consensus and whether or not you are going to…”

“This is about the excesses where a State and its population reach a consensus and whether or not you are going to provide a tool in this legislation so that people can obstruct that and obstruct it on the fallacy that somehow they have some value in their property that is there because of what they do as opposed to the billions of dollars in subsidy that flow down that canal every year from Shasta Dam down to Tulare Lake. The fact of the matter is they do not have those rights, and my concern is we are now about to put the taxpayer of this country on the hook based upon very narrow interests that have rights under their contracts and now they are trying to bootstrap those into additional rights. I would hope we would oppose the amendment for that purpose.”