Jared Huffman

This bill represents a massive step backward for transportation and infrastructure funding, reducing funds for rail, transit, and highway programs that our communities desperately need. In addition to slashing TIGER grants by 80 percent…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made available by this Act…

I thank the gentleman. I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California (Mr. Huffman). The amendment was agreed to. Amendment No. 24 Offered by Mr. Southerland

In response to the gentleman from Texas, I think it is important that we be careful in the rhetoric we use on these subjects. It is incorrect to say that, by law, there is an automatic increase in the Federal budget and that that applies…

I appreciate that the stated concern, stated purpose of this hearing and this legislation we are talking about today is over species recovery and de-listing.

This bipartisan REFI legislation...makes perfect sense to refinance this decades old loan at today's low interest rates.

If they go under, it is important to note there will be nobody to pay back this loan because the loan payments are based upon their landings.

Getting this commercial fishery back on its feet is just as important as the progress we have made to get it on more stable ecological and operational footing.

I want to start by thanking you for the historic designation of our newest national monument in my district on the Mendocino County coast.

We know that Congress can be slow, that there are uncertainties in the process of moving through Congress. The question is: Why, in the case of something like this, when there is no opposition, all these economic benefits, should my…

I want to thank the gentleman from Wisconsin for your leadership in organizing this hour of debate on such an important subject. I certainly want to lend my voice to the voices of my colleagues on this important matter. What we are asking…

There was a deeply troubling story this Sunday in The New York Times, entitled, ``The End of Snow.'' Like all of you, I have been cheering on our Olympians in Sochi, particularly in the snow-related events. But as this article notes…

I thank my colleagues for offering this motion to improve a deeply flawed bill. California is home to over 100 federally recognized tribes, including over two dozen in my congressional district. Many tribes, including the Hoopa, the Yurok…

The last time California had a severe multiyear drought, something very different happened. Democrats and Republicans, people from the northern part of the State, the southern part, and inland came together around a historic bipartisan set…

With that, Mr. Chairman, I would simply request a ``yes'' vote. It doesn't have to be partisanship. It doesn't have to be taking water from one part of the State or from one set of users and giving it to the other, scapegoating the 3-inch…

Some of the water impacted by this bill is critically needed by tribes in my district. This bill explicitly waives State and Federal law in a way that almost certainly would lead to additional diversions from the Trinity River, which would…

On February, 5 2014, I was absent for rollcall votes 40 and 41. Had I been present for rollcall vote 40 I would have voted ``yes.'' And had I been present for rollcall vote 41 I would have voted ``no.'' ____________________

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California will be postponed. Amendment No. 7 Offered by Mr. McNerney The Acting CHAIR. It…

The public trust doctrine and the coequal goals articulated in that 2009 California legislation are the centerpieces of California water. Without those coequal goals codified in that State law, the entire Bay Delta conservation plan is…

At this time, I yield myself 3 minutes. Mr. Chairman, we have heard a lot about 3-inch fish in this debate. In fact, to hear my colleagues in the Republican Party tell it, this is a story of a 3-inch fish that is taking water away in this…

I have an amendment made in order. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill, add the following: SEC. 504. STATE OF CALIFORNIA WATER REFORM LAWS. Nothing in…

The wonders of western reclamation and all of the agriculture and water delivery and all that, that was all government.

There is a price point beyond which agriculture has a hard time competing, in terms of purchasing water.

Improving the fuel efficiency of our cars and trucks is one of the most important things that we can do to fight climate change. Thanks to an executive order signed by President Obama, the Federal vehicle fleet is becoming more efficient…

But I wonder if you could speak a bit about the fact that those charismatic iconic species are also part of a bigger ecosystem that depends on lesser species.