Cliff Bentz actually said...

"This is a welcomed Committee hearing on an issue that is of incredible importance, not only to the seven states involved with the Colorado, but all of the western United States."

"The situation--I know you are familiar with it--in the Klamath has led this year to a choice between in-stream interests, on the one hand, and farmers on the other. And the farmers lost."

"What is Reclamation doing in that regard? Are you working on design of better tools to try to tell us what we can anticipate?"

"It is important that Congress exercise its oversight authorities on the executive branch."