"I think the fact that we detected fruit flies 12 times this year, and were able to quickly respond to those and eradicate those, shows how good the detection systems are."
"This has impacted farm communities, farm workers, and farmers."
"For over 20 years, we have had an increasing layer of regulatory requirements that have reduced the water supply from 90 percent to 40 percent."
"this is not only a social economic injustice issue that so many people in the San Joaquin Valley, 4 million people, have been impacted because their very existence is threatened by whether or not they..."
"My drought legislation would update these regulations, allowing water managers to use forecast-based decisionmaking for flood control releases, so we can save precious water supplies during drought."
"Californians simply do not support sacrificing California's environment primarily for the benefit of a small number of agricultural water users."
"This 4 years of drought has highlighted the inability of the water system that we have in California, the Federal and the state water projects, to meet all of the demands that are now asked of them."
"Let's be clear. I mean we have been operating these projects during these drought conditions for one first priority only, and that is to try to protect the survivability of Delta smelt and other speci..."
"Let me tell you something. That is unacceptable, it is avoidable, and it is immoral."
"California's anadromous fisheries are hanging on by a thread."
"We simply cannot weaken fishery protections any more."