Ken Calvert

I mean, if we have better construction, we have reduced maintenance.

This is just terrible.

This is important because we do want to come back here in a year or 2 years and find out that there is a person that stops this whole process.

I would argue that we win wars not just because we are just the best trained and most proficient, because we are very good at large-scale strategic operational and tactical logistics.

China is new to power projection. I question their ability to conduct these functions effectively in fighting the conflict beyond their shores.

Members of Congress deserve to be notified when something like that is happening where we could at least be prepared for the onslaught that comes.

I certainly want to thank you for your attendance today. We appreciate your coming to our hearing.

I know we have a historic drought. I know the problems that you are operating under.

The President has used authority under the Antiquities Act 22 times since 2009 to bypass Congress and designate 40 million acres as national monuments.

Will you commit to providing the committee with a quarterly status report from this point forward to see where we are at and where we are going?

Your intent is to comply to the reporting language in the bill.

If you had simply chosen to pump as much water as is allowed under the biological opinion, you would have provided enough water for 2 million people for an entire year.

Mr. Simpson has convinced 145 of our colleagues to co-sponsor his bill, including every member of this subcommittee.

Being told to relocate from one's home and pull up one's own roots can be devastating to a family and to any community.

Okay. We all know that failing to plan is the same as planning to fail.

These rains should have provided needed relief to drought-stricken communities in California, yet you are pumping less water than you did last year in a historic drought.

Thank you, Chief Tidwell, for the Administration's efforts to change the way we budget for wildfires.

If those reports are being used to create a conclusion in order--which we are talking about, then those reports should be made public and made part of the information to provide it to the States.

A number of groups have been urging the Administration to create this 2.5 million acre national monument in southeastern Oregon.

Just as much of a crisis what is going in coal country right now is happening in my State of California.

I feel good today that between our restoration efforts and the work that we are doing on hazardous fuels, we are treating over four and a half million acres every year.

If it is information that potentially is being withheld, we need to know that.

Funding for Indian Country has been a nonpartisan priority of the subcommittee for many years now.

I respect tribes that choose to do it in a different manner, and they are best situated to make decisions for themselves.

Congress owes the Navajo and Hopi people the opportunity to bring closure to this issue.