Political Quotes

“the subcommittee was very cautious to make sure that anything we did did not interfere with the jurisdiction of the Energy Committee. The ranking member, Senator Murkowski, is in the Chamber. Everything we have appropriated money for is related to things that have been authorized. We are not appropriating money that has not been authorized, and we went to great extremes to make sure we did that. I am, some say, the third Senator from California. I am happy to be in that category. Because it is such a huge State, they need all the help they can get. We in Nevada are a neighbor of the State of California. We are small in relation to population, compared to their 34 million, but we have some of the same problems they have. Water is one of them. The bay-delta project is an extremely complex, difficult problem. The State of California has recognized it is a difficult problem. It has spent billions of dollars of California taxpayers' money to solve these problems. I believe, this subcommittee believes, and I think the Senate will believe, we, the Federal Government, have an obligation to help. This money we are appropriating is a very small amount of money, considering the tremendous burden the State of California has to meet their demands. Many of these problems were created by the Federal Government. The Bureau of Reclamation has been up to their hips in water.”