We learned, the reason this isn't happening is solely because federal regulations have made it economically infeasible to do so.

The principal focus of today's hearing is to examine obstacles that the federal government has placed in the way of developing clean, cheap, abundant and reliable hydropower.

These types of nonsensical regulations create man-made shortages, which in turn lead to high unemployment and increased water, energy, and food prices and unnecessary taxpayer spending.

I would hope this common-sense legislation aimed at eliminating bureaucratic red tape would garner strong bipartisan support, much like H.R. 795.

H.R. 2915 would repeal Western's borrowing authority to build electric transmission under section 301 of the Hoover Power Plant Act of 1984.

So the process is at least a year now, or two years from our current experience.

the principal focus of today's hearing is to examine obstacles that the Federal Government has placed in the way of developing clean, cheap, abundant, and reliable hydropower through small generators on existing canals and pipelines.

The Antiquities Act was meant, in 1906, solely to protect open archeological digs from looting.

That sound anemic to me.

There is an enormous lead time from lease to development to production.

Is there any way for us to honor the commitments we have made to everybody in the Social Security system, and yet move that system to an actuarially sound foundation?