George Miller: “I tried to make the point in general debate, and as the gentleman knows, we have levee failures in our State and we have…”

“I tried to make the point in general debate, and as the gentleman knows, we have levee failures in our State and we have had them across the country, and there is very little or sketchy evidence, in my opinion, that says it is due to ESA. But also, the Corps of Engineers in fact requires annual maintenance of the levees that includes mowing, burning, vegetation removal, filling in of burrow sites; all of the things the gentleman and I associate in the Sacramento Delta with that.”