"Are you, Administrator Coit or Director Williams, are you accountable to deliver results, or are you simply charged to disburse of our resources as you will, without accountability for results?"
"Has the Bureau of Reclamation taken an interest in California Legislature's recent efforts to rewrite our water rights?"
"Yes, I do. I do believe so. And when you build this infrastructure, it has to be paid for over a period of time."
"I would like to talk more broadly about abundance and access implications of our farm policy."
"I am very concerned that this might be the first generation in America that is actually moving our diet away from additional produce, and protein, and diverse nutrition on the dinner plate."
"Are we displacing our highly diversified food system with commodity crops, farm policy, and biofuels?"
"I am from California. I represent a district that is--we looked at it--the 18th highest poverty level in America."
"We see that service there could happen in several years."
"Do you believe that this route serves as the multimodal transportation system that was called for 5 years ago?"
"It is something that has been long awaited, and we are very excited about the movement."
"Give them the shot in the arm of confidence that this is actually going to happen."