local control of your destiny is at the heart of public power.

The people of my district, as the people of yours, understand the vital role that our dams play not just in assuring abundant supplies of clean water, not just in supplying clean, cheap, and plentiful electricity and critically important…

I don't think we are going to grin and bear it any longer.

But over the last few decades, a radical and retrograde ideology has seized our public policy.

Thank you especially for introducing H.R. 6247 and for holding this hearing to examine and expose the continuing drive of the environmental left to destroy our Nation's system of dams.

The bill I introduced two weeks ago shines a bright light on the enormous benefits and potential of federal and non-federal hydropower dams.

To me, these glaring hypocrisies destroy their credibility and reveal an unabashedly nihilistic agenda.

We have to find more water resources because irrigation increases crop yields tenfold.

I think this individual as well thinks that this was all very carefully coordinated.

Once you eliminate the bureaucratic regulations, what are we dealing with in terms of the actual cost?

Does anybody on this panel believe that hydropower is not renewable?

we have not invented a more expensive way of producing electricity.