09/26/2017
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"Western irrigated agriculture is a strategic national resource, and the role of the Federal Government in the 21st century should be to protect and enhance that resource."
"The status quo is simply not working and the purpose of today's hearing is to chart a path that leads us to a new era of abundance."
"The purpose of today's hearing is to identify the current impediments to increasing water storage and hydropower capacity, and to look at new concepts on the construction of smaller high elevation dam..."
"What we suffer is a super abundance of bureaucracy and a catastrophic shortage of vision and political will. That is what has to change."