Tom McClintock

For every dollar that the salmon industry produces, agriculture generates $568.

Certainly, that is what we are observing. I cited the EPA study in my opening statement.

Your father thought it made sense; he is the one who authored the 1980 legislation authorizing the expansion of Shasta.

Right, so, again, it gets back to a very simple question--if we can't store it as snow, we have to store it as water, or we lose it.

If we can't store it as snow, doesn't that mean we need to store it as water?

Shouldn't we be focusing on the least expensive sources of water before we put money into the most expensive?

What is better, abundance or scarcity?

The climate is constantly changing, which requires constant adaptation.

One policy option that we'll all hopefully agree on is the need to invest in our water infrastructure.

It's important that this Subcommittee soberly assess and plan for these challenges.

And I'm hopeful that this Subcommittee can work together to disprove that old notion that 'water is for fighting over,' and instead work to come up with common-sense, scientifically-based solutions to the challenges before us.

Sadly, these policies were reversed over the last 45 years.

We should be looking at the most cost-effective ways to produce water abundance, not the most expensive.

Conservation does not add a drop to our water supply, it merely copes with the shortage that our own policies have imposed.

Droughts are nature's fault. They happen. But water shortages are our fault.

The problem is this abundance of fresh water is unevenly distributed over time and space.

If we do not enforce our immigration law, then what exactly do our borders mean?

What we are calling family separation is exactly the same process as for any other arrest.

So, for example, if an American citizen is arrested for drunk driving with a toddler in the back seat, we arrest the perpetrator and we take the toddler into protective custody until we can reunite them with their family.

And it is actually a felony to cross the border after being deported.

It is a misdemeanor to cross the border illegally. Correct?

Under the circumstances, I think you were remarkably restrained, and I am embarrassed that such a question would be put to you in this committee.

Do you at least understand the appearance of impropriety that that projects to the country and undermines the faith that the American people have in their justice system and in its detachment from politics?

Let me talk about the apparent double standard and disproportionate show of force in cases like the arrest of Roger Stone.

Well, I think back to the Lois Lerner scandal, and that never was addressed. Why should I be more confident in your assurances now?