"What new scientific evidence has been found that lead the service to conclude that a new critical habitat designation was necessary?"
"There is talk about a bond to build additional projects, which I think need to be built, expand the--build the site's reservoir expansion, storage, Shasta, the Upper San Joaquin, more efficient utiliz..."
"I want to thank our guest for coming out today, I understand the traffic was bad, I saw it out there, it was pretty difficult."
"It is literally a Steinbeck novel up there. It is a chapter out of Grapes of Wrath and it is not getting any better."
"I was very pleased that the efforts of DHS and DEA and the other partner agencies are making the strike against the La Familia drug cartel."
"The success of the Merida Initiative, and the United States-Mexican cooperation in general, would be a hinge in the ability for both nations to address the serious erosion of national security."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This is your third Californian in a row, so we have it all--earthquakes, wildfires, floods, droughts, pestilence."
"Are there plans to focus more of your OEC's, more of their resources to address technical assistance?"
"It seems to me that we are reacting slowly to the problem."
"Sometimes, as the gentleman from Texas indicated, we get involved in the earmark process because it is, quite frankly, faster to give money to the locals than anything else."
"I want to bring up a couple of fires in the past and some of the difficulties we have had in California."