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 dams.

What we suffer is a super abundance of bureaucracy and a catastrophic shortage of vision and political will. That is what has to change.

Cheaper water is better than more expensive water.

Our problem is not supply--it is distribution.

It seems to me that we are moving more and more toward a European model vision of sovereignty.

You have all told heartrending stories of threats by your own government, of everything from jail time to financial ruin.

the statement that this shutdown is the fault of Republicans, when Republicans have repeatedly voted to keep the government open, is simply false.

I would remind my friend from New Hampshire that three times the House voted to fund the government.

I would remind my colleagues that incessantly repeating a falsehood does not make it a truth.

We must vote on a clean resolution, continuing resolution, with no add-ons, I mean none, clean; open the Federal Government and put people back to work.