Grace Napolitano: “Would you, please? I would be really very, very thankful.”

In my view, we get lost on questions of who is best suited to protect our water resources, rather than talking about the importance of rivers, streams, lakes and wetlands for current and future needs.

I thank our remarkable team at legislative counsel for putting all of these provisions into legislative text. I am fortunate to have some of the best water leaders in the country in my district and southern California who provided valuable…

I believe the question of who should ultimately be responsible for protecting rivers, streams, and wetlands has become hyper-politicized.

Clean water was not always a partisan issue, and no issue has more support among American families than the protection of our nation's waters.