Jared Huffman

the broader value of biodiversity and functioning ecosystems, which clearly were an inherent value in the Endangered Species Act, which has been supported for so long with bipartisan majorities.

The weather outside is frightful; and if you listen to certain conservative media networks, you hear something not so delightful. You hear that, because it is snowing, there must not be climate change. This is unscientific, it is…

Some of my colleagues want to go back to the old way of doing business on health insurance. We can't go back to the days when people with preexisting conditions were denied coverage and women were asked to pay more simply because they are…

What is the number? You said there is 18 million in outflow, 18 million acre-feet in outflow. How much do you think you could actually capture in upstream?

But my question is: have you analyzed how much of it is actually available for the conceptual high elevation storage that you are talking about today?

Have you looked at water rights? Have you looked at downstream beneficial uses?

The fact is the most cost effective dams in California and in other parts of this country were built a long time ago.

There are so many conservation strategies that we have pioneered in recent decades that do produce more water.

I find it rather significant that you did not identify any specific location where the theoretical high elevation storage would happen.

Our Federal Government should always be a good neighbor, should always comply with the law.

I am confused about your testimony saying that you are anticipating zero percent because that is very alarming.

I want to respectfully push back a little bit against the idea that it is somehow environmental regulations or environmental standards that are holding up the possibility of constructing lots of new dams.

I am not aware of a single dam, at least in California, maybe throughout the West, that actually has the financing in place to happen and is being held up because of environmental requirements.

I was interested that in your testimony you did not identify a single river or a single location for these facilities.

I think our Federal Government, our Federal land managers, should always be good neighbors.

I'm embarrassed by the committee process in this hearing, this sham of a hearing that we're having today.

This is a critical moment for the 113th Congress of the United States. We have an opportunity to let this House work its will, to end the government shutdown, to protect the full faith and credit of our country, to show the whole world…

This is worse than fiddling while Rome burns. This is fanning the flames while Rome burns.

There is no doubt about it. I think you are exactly right. Of course, prior to my election in Congress, I spent 6 years in the California Legislature, where we had our own fiscal crises and, yes, at times the government practically shut…

I want to thank my friend from inland southern California very much for including me in this Special Order hour. There are so many ways in which this Republican government shutdown is hurting the people of California, hurting the people of…

Absolutely. As we talk about this incredible economic damage and risk that politicians are taking with our economy, what I am hearing from my district is how incredulous people are because there is such an obvious and simple solution and…

I am struck by some interesting contradictions in the testimony that we have heard today.

We can't pretend everything is business as usual. We have to stop playing games with the American people.

Even though the impacted land in the park is primarily wilderness, the bill waives all environmental review.

Would you agree, sir, that there are instances where salvage logging is not appropriate; where if it is not done right, you could actually worsen some of the things that you have mentioned in your testimony, things like erosion, water…