Sometimes on this floor you just shake your head and wonder if you may have fallen down the rabbit hole and ``Alice in Wonderland'' is really real, where up is down and down is up, and left is right and right is left, and this confusion…

There is always the rest of the story. And while this amendment deals with one of the pernicious parts of the legislation that would have been a perpetual contract, it does not deal with the remaining pieces of the Central Valley…

If you know California water, you know that we can get pretty wound up about it, and the solution for California water is not to be found in this particular piece of legislation. Facts are difficult things to deal with, but they are facts…

I thank the gentlewoman. One hardly knows where to start, when you take California water law and push it aside and preempt it with Federal water law, really running over the top of the State of California, and then you steal 800,000…

I want to talk about two issues here, one of which was discussed by my colleague from California, which is the bill that will be up later this afternoon. While the rule allows for amendments, some of the amendments that were proposed are…

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on the question of passage. The vote was taken by…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Strike section 105. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 566, the gentleman from California (Mr…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California will be postponed. Amendment No. 6 Offered by Mrs. Napolitano The Acting CHAIR…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Strike section 103. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 566, the gentleman from California (Mr…

I've heard some of the most amazing things in the last 20 minutes that I'm absolutely sometimes unable to even respond to them. First of all, let's get a couple of things straight before I go to the amendment. The water that is delivered…

May I inquire as to the time remaining? The Acting CHAIR. You have 1\1/2\ minutes remaining.

Once again we need to step back and really understand the full impact of this particular piece of legislation that is before us. It has profound impact on California. We heard earlier discussion about the delta, two amendments put forth by…