"Why should taxpayers fund both defendants and plaintiffs?"
"They lost because the people of the Pacific Northwest know that removal of these dams would be an extreme action that would cost jobs."
"We have to find more water resources because irrigation increases crop yields tenfold."
"Just for the record, we in California are neutral on the Idaho-Washington potato rivalry."
"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..."
"I think this individual as well thinks that this was all very carefully coordinated."
"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."
"But over the last few decades, a radical and retrograde ideology has seized our public policy."
"Once you eliminate the bureaucratic regulations, what are we dealing with in terms of the actual cost?"
"The bill would block imposition of the 'Chu Memo', ordered by the Secretary of Energy, that could force power rate increases."
"Does that make any sense to you?"