John Fleming

This bill provides wholesale electric customers a mechanism to better understand what they are paying for.

Mr. Denham's bill, H.R. 4582, eliminates an outdated and conflicting fish-doubling requirement imposed by another 1992 law.

H.R. 2993, introduced by our colleague, Doris Matsui, makes this situation even worse by giving the Interior Secretary discretion to create these so-called Title XVI projects.

I would suggest to you that this is a framework of a bankruptcy, whatever you want to call it, and it will ultimately require a bailout.

It is the progressive socialist policies, economic policies that got Puerto Rico at this point.

The American people are tremendously angry at Washington, because we have a President and those who work for the President who insist on creating their own laws and not complying with the laws of the land.

I would just simply like to close and say let's think about the American people, and let's give the American people access to the valuable and beautiful land that we have here in this Nation. I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting…

I would like to ask how much time I have remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Louisiana has 1\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I have been hanging on the edge of this cliff, waiting for the final solution here.

The loss of 162 billion gallons of water in 2 months is a man-made problem deserving of a man-made solution.

We as a Nation pay for social services for the people who just want jobs and water, not handouts.

Will a 3-inch fish continue to be more important than people?

We have the power to right these wrongs.

This has implications for all of us who shop at grocery stores throughout the Nation.

Unfortunately, as this chart says, twice the amount of water is flowing out into the ocean compared to last year, but even less water is being sent to farms, due in part to Federal endangered species regulations.

Today, the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans meets to assess California's water supplies in light of ongoing drought and the related water cutbacks while the state has been partially drenched with powerful El Nino storms.

It sounds like a win-win-win. People get to fish, they get paid in some cases to fish, and you end up getting more salmon.

Today's hearing is another step toward much-needed change.

The status quo may be working for sea lions and litigators, but it is not working for the American taxpayer.

Billions of ratepayer and taxpayer dollars have been spent to recover endangered fish species on the West Coast and elsewhere. Some measures are working.

Yet, reducing this stressor should be the lowest hanging fruit to pick, if the Federal Government had its act together. Shockingly, it doesn't.

The focus of today's hearing is about simultaneously protecting the American taxpayer and the electricity ratepayer, enhancing self-sustaining tribal economies and coastal economies, and stabilizing food prices.

And they are not a danger to the environment? They are not invasive species or anything of that sort?

OK. Why is domestic calamari from our own waters defined the same way as these other dangerous or protected products?

But your regulations could be changed, right? You don't require an Act of Congress to do that?