Jared Huffman

It is very important, I think, to recognize that the Colorado River Basin is experiencing an unprecedented drought and has been since the year 2000.

I appreciate that the focus of today's hearing is a bipartisan bill that recognizes the importance of stakeholder collaboration.

H.R. 4465 amends P.L. 106-392, the authorizing legislation for the Recovery Programs, to provide for continued use of Colorado River Storage Project (CRSP) revenue for annual funding of the Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery…

What a great way to start your career in Congress, helping move forward a strongly bipartisan piece of consensus legislation.

If not, our rivers may become nothing more than holding tanks and we'll have to keep endangered species on life support indefinitely.

I applaud the many partners who are represented here today, including our witnesses that work together to make sure that more species are not lost to extinction.

The Republican tax scam picks clear winners and losers, yet our colleagues are rushing it through Congress faster than President Trump can retweet British racists. Let's be clear: the winners in this tax scam are the country's wealthiest…

This political stunt is obviously doomed to fail.

I suspect you would prefer this bill as a stand-alone, as well.

Are there lessons from the 20th century dams that were built without any environmental review that should inform how we approach this?

I hope we can move past these political games soon.

Congressman Huffman, in a previous answer during my testimony, I noted that the production and survival of hatchery salmon is extremely important to both the sport and commercial fishing industries in California and the Northwest.

Despite these facts, my Republican colleagues continue to peddle the fiction that we need to gut our Nation's environmental laws to build new dams and other infrastructure.

I hope we can move on from this phony debate and get to work addressing the real problems on the ground.

Keeping the myth alive that terribly conceived projects like Auburn can somehow be built if we just clear away the environmental reviews and other obstacles so that you can score political points is a bad idea.

I urge my colleagues across the aisle to move on from this so that we can work together on real solutions that actually have a chance of becoming law.

This bill threatens our Nation's fishing industry and attempts to undermine our Nation's bedrock environmental laws.

Today, we're back to debate a familiar bill that threatens our Nation's fishing industry and attempts to undermine our Nation's bedrock environmental laws.

This claim is false.

NEPA, in 98 percent, 99 percent of projects, is not a source of significant delay at all.

To suggest... that it is somehow typical for the NEPA cost to exceed the project cost, we are now drifting into the realm of hyperbole, scapegoating, and factual distortion.

There has been an effort to trivialize public input, to suggest that it is a circus.

I wish we did spend more time talking about how these laws are being implemented.

When these natural disasters strike we are all in it together, we are all Americans, and we need to help each other and do the right thing.

I was pleased to see you support that move and really pleased in conversations with Tesla's CEO Elon Musk that you described renewable energy as a new avenue for Puerto Rico to pursue to provide electricity going forward.