Tom McClintock

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.

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.

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

There is truly enough water for everyone and we can meet both our agriculture and municipal usages.

We ought to look at ways in which we can do a better job.

I urge the Bureau to do a better job in looking at them.

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.

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

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.

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.

If increasing spending, increasing our entitlement obligations, and turning in major deficits were the path to prosperity, we should be in the golden age of the American economy right now.

Clinton reduced spending relative to GDP, he contracted our entitlement obligations, he turned in budget surpluses during his final years in office.

In discussing the salmon runs in the Northwest Pacific, my colleague from California has actually described the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, which is a natural fluctuation of cold water currents.

Your assurances that all of these anti-energy policies present a robust energy plan for America, that you are very concerned about job creation except when it comes to the 1.5 million jobs that we could create if you would simply get out…

I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and all the while I assure he and anyone who will listen that I am very sympathetic of his plight and I am willing to do everything I can to help.

We have 9 percent unemployment in the country. We began this Administration with 7.8 percent. I am not sure that is a record I would be proud of with all due respect.

What is needed to convince this Administration that our people desperately need jobs, permanent taxpaying jobs?

Yes, but you and I both know that that is the result of----a 10-year timeframe that began 10 years ago, and what we are now watching is the Administration systematically shutting off our future oil development by these actions.

How do these actions help the U.S. economy? How do they help Americans find jobs that they so desperately need?

Are we watching with the current administration of the Forest Service an abandonment, indeed a repudiation, of Gifford Pinchot's vision of managing the forests to achieve the greatest good for the greatest number in the long run, his words?

What specifically have you done to redress these grievances? So far I have heard absolutely nothing.

When ecological trumps the social and those economic values, you have gone beyond the mandates that Congress set for them.

It seems to me that we are slowly inching back toward those bad old days that the Magna Carta redressed.

Are we watching an effort to expel the public from the public's lands?