Mike Simpson actually said...

That is just something that we need to know as a Committee, as we are planning our budgets.

How are we going to fund these roads and bridges? We have a $700 billion backlog in water and sewer projects in this country.

And we need to work with the water users there to make sure that they understand what is going on here between the two federal agencies.

I do not see us, frankly, building an awful lot of new dams in the West for increased storage.