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

We have the power to right these wrongs.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

This is a classic case of where the left arm of the Federal Government is acting against the wishes of the right arm.

It is my hope that the agencies before us today are willing to work with us on solutions.

This bipartisan bill exempts two species from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's seafood licensing requirements.

This inconsistency has nothing to do with making seafood safer, but it has a lot to do with feathering an agency's nest with import and export fees that are passed on to the consumer.

This legislation is about increasing access and local control, not restricting it.

H.R. 3070, introduced by our colleague Lee Zeldin from New York, corrects a unique navigational issue in Block Island Sound.

law-abiding, responsible fishermen should not be punished for doing their jobs.

this is what the American people are very upset about, is the bureaucracy in America that seems to be self-serving, and not listening to the American people.

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