I would hope that you would know how much those resources were worth.

The public sector works exactly the opposite. They attract capital by being less efficient, less innovative, and then coming here and demanding more money to cure these inefficiencies.

During the last 30 years, we have seen an 80 percent decline in the timber harvests from the National Forest Service lands.

It reminds me of the Vietnam War maxim, 'We have to destroy these habitats to save them,' and that is exactly what these policies have done.

To add insult to insanity, when they tear down the Iron Gate Dam, the Iron Gate fish hatchery goes with it; then you do have a catastrophic decline.

I, for the life of me, don't understand why we don't allow such things as captive breeding programs to meet the ESA requirements.

I think we have gone too far from the original intent of the Endangered Species Act.

We cannot build dams if we cannot get the dams approved, and that is the whole problem that this bill addresses.

The legislation by Congressman Hastings is based on numerous hearings held by this subcommittee and the full committee on the impediments to construction of new reservoirs.

We will not solve our water shortages until we build more dams, and we will not build more dams until we fundamentally reform the environmental laws that make their construction cost prohibitive.

Enough is enough.