We have squandered enormous amounts of money and precious time proving that the policies of the 1970's do not work.

It is the government's responsibility to alleviate and prevent that shortage.

This shift of purpose is fast becoming a direct and imminent threat not only to the prosperity of the West, but to our very ability to support our population.

Clearly, we need to make the same kind of investments that our parents and our grandparents made in the 20th century.

The Bureau of Reclamation has built over 600 dams and reservoirs in the last century, but two-thirds of them were built in the first 60 years of its existence.

I think you would certainly be studying them, which is the problem, and I think that gets to the crux of this matter.

I take a little exception to your comment about comparing the fish, the wild fish versus hatchery fish, to children born at home versus the hospital.

You are not building anything right now. That is the problem, is you guys spend countless dollars and endless time studying, and you are now spending absolutely no time or funding to actually construct these facilities.

The gentleman's time has expired. He will have to let it go at that. But we will have another round.

from 1979, Reclamation has not completed a single major dam, if you define that as over 250,000 acre-feet of storage capacity

If the gentleman will yield before he yields back his time, I would answer by suggesting that he read the full written testimony, in which the witness has provided many cases where funding was available but the project was held up because…