John Scott Duarte: “If they all did want to run their air conditioner, I doubt we could even support that.”

I live in a rural part of California, 18th highest poverty level in the country, where they have taken the water off the farms and my families simply can't afford it.

My district is full of very smart people, with firm grasp reality. They can smell (EXPLETIVE DELETED).

this Cottonwood Decision has caused a state of paralysis in managing our Federal forests by requiring forest plans to go through new ESA consultations every time a new species is listed.

I thank the gentleman from Tennessee (Mr. Fleischmann) for yielding time to me. Mr. Chairman, the last 2 years in California have been very, very wet, and flooding has devastated our valley. I saw firsthand the devastation in Planada…