This isn't about dam safety. We already have very good laws in place to assure the safety of our dams.

you have to keep a megawatt of reliable, immediately obtainable backup power or the grid will collapse.

we have huge transmission costs with wind and solar because they are low capacity.

Just for the record, we in California are neutral on the Idaho-Washington potato rivalry.

That is not cost-effective.

Their agenda is not to maintain or improve the dams. Their agenda is to destroy them.

Why should taxpayers fund both defendants and plaintiffs?

Now, we are going to hear a representative sampling of the arguments made in support of this lunacy in the next few minutes.

The bill would block imposition of the 'Chu Memo', ordered by the Secretary of Energy, that could force power rate increases.

Every dam must be considered on its own merits.

We need more dams, not less.

Skyrocketing electricity prices. Ms. Rowe, what is that going to do to our grocery bill?