Mr. Tipton's bill simply prohibits the Federal Government from using what should be a routine permitting process to extract long-held water rights from private users.
I request that you provide written comments on the bill no later than November 1, 2013.
As you know, I invited you to testify on H.R. 3176 at the Water and Power Subcommittee's October 10, 2013 hearing.
So with that, Mr. Chair, I yield back.
It seems that the U.S. Forest Service is going out of its way to make life difficult for people, to inconvenience people...
Are we seeing an adversarial relationship begin to develop between this Government and the people, and particularly betw...
While you unfortunately chose not to attend, it is your agency's responsibility to provide the Administration's views on...
We must stop fiddling while Rome burns. The answers we need for this hearing demand that the government be reopened.
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We will also hear H.R. 3176, the Drought Relief Act, offered by Mr. DeFazio.
This amounts to an uncompensated taking and is a violation of both the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.