The interesting thing about this is there are those on your side whose lives are driven by climate change and those on this side who are realists, but we still agree on this bill.

Meeting will come to order. We apologize for being a few minutes late. We had a vote at 10 o'clock.

Drought conditions have affected and still affect many regions of the country.

The timing is right, we are getting into our WRDA bill. That is what this is all about, and it has been a problem in my State for a long time.

Well, Mr. Dalton, we will submit a question for the record to get new details on how to make chloride control construction a reality in our Area 6 that we are so concerned about.

More than 60 percent of Oklahoma was in the U.S. Drought Monitor's 'extreme' category.

For the vast majority of the past 6 years, Oklahoma suffered from a devastating drought event.

My view as a United States Senator is I do not take sides between the jobs in the fishing industry and the jobs in agriculture; they are all jobs.

How do I go back to Oklahomans and ask them to spend money for a new feasibility study when we have gone through all of this?

I remind you and everyone else who is here that next week Senator Boxer and I plan to go ahead and start the markup of the WRDA bill.

One thing, Senator Boxer, that neither one of us mentioned is the significance of the water in terms of our military.

Let me just restate that in Oklahoma the legislative goal for chloride control is to reduce the naturally occurring chlorides in the Red River.