Grace Napolitano

Your leadership has provided the vision that recycling and reusing water is the most significant new water supply available today.

First I would like to commend the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Geological Survey for rightly prioritizing Title XVI water reuse projects.

The outstanding question that your testimony did not answer is how many jobs will the Reclamation ARRA funds create!

What can we do to be able to promote--and I would say to the Chief that the Representatives need to be able to put bills so that they can be considered.

I would also like to thank our witnesses for coming before us.

In this day and age, in this great country of ours, that this still exists is unfortunate. And it is unacceptable.

I am of the opinion, of course, in my own opinion, that we don't have any new water supply.

I believe it would be advisable, if you will, that we start looking at how we can identify those areas that have been long ignored.

First, I would like to commend the Bureau of Reclamation and USGS for rightly prioritizing Title XVI water reuse projects.

I look forward to ensure with them to ensure that funding allocated to the Department of the Interior is spent in a manor that will help us reach our current and future water needs.

there is a great urgency, so if you would also let this Chair and the Ranking Member know

However, for some areas, if it hadn't been for recycled water, they would be up a creek, literally.

Well, we need to have a little bit of conversation in the future on how we deal with some of these issues, especially in areas where there is no drinking water.

I certainly stand ready to work with my colleagues as we proceed with drafting transportation program authorization legislation.

Climate change is not going to change from what we are seeing, so we can expect more.

Many of your containers are not checked for the content so they pay a certain tariff that may not be commensurate to what it is worth.

Haven't seen one for years now so thank you.

I think maybe we need to have the ports a little more involved in what you are shipping so that then you can have possibly more funding.

The gas tax. Now, we are all talking about relying on funding that is coming from the gas tax on all vehicles.

I specifically am talking about the Alameda Corridor-East.

What happens here affects the rest of the country so that whatever it is we can do to work together...

I think that has to be addressed simply because they are the ones who make up the most or the bulk of the county itself or in the affected area.

I certainly want to thank the fire chief for providing us a copter tour yesterday which Corrine had already experienced a year ago.

Passing the Amtrak authorization, the railroad bill, made significant steps, although not as much as needed for our Nation's safety and passenger rail network.

It is not the time for cutting back.