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

That comes to about $75 for every working family in the State. That to me seems insane.

the folks in my district are facing just enormous costs.

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

What can we expect to see on our household electricity bills if this lunatic fringe of the environmental left has its way and these dams come down?

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

You are going to have to pay for the much more expensive power.

I have never seen a single proposal that combines more bad policy in one single measure than what has been advocated by the left to tear down these dams.

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

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…

No single person, be they an unelected bureaucrat or federal judge, should ever have authority to initiate such an action.