Political Quotes

“Despite the potential for a point of order and the amendment being out of order, it really, really is a good policy. While it may not come to a vote on this House floor, it certainly ought to come to the attention of the appropriators and the administration that we have got a pretty serious drought in the West. It does affect California, Arizona, Oregon, probably parts of Idaho, and on into New Mexico. California voters last November passed a $7 billion water bond that deals with the long-term issues of the water supply in California and some of the immediate challenges that the California drought has brought to the 30-plus million citizens of the State. This amendment would direct the Department of the interior, the EPA, the Department of Agriculture, and the Department of Defense to focus the money that it would be spending in California under any circumstance, to focus that money on assisting, augmenting, advancing, and supplementing those programs that the State of California is undertaking to address the drought using the bond act money. That is a great idea, that instead of spending the money on things that are not immediately relevant, that are not immediately necessary and do not immediately help those citizens of California, those communities, those agencies in the State that are suffering from the drought, rather to spend the money on those programs. That is it. It doesn't call for any additional money.…”