"I would also ask unanimous consent to enter into the hearing record a letter to the Subcommittee from the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation in support of H.R. 897 and H.R. 3925."
"As Chairman Conrad Burns said years ago regarding a somewhat similar situation, this dam case is back."
"The science robustly supports dam removal on the Snake River."
"This established CRSO ROD is the blueprint we should be following, not a half-baked proposal developed in secret..."
"It was a process in which it was run from the Northwest for the Northwest, and citizens had opportunities to turn out in community meetings."
"To gut an economy, Mr. Chairman, to gut an economy with no assurance of success is just a really bad bet for the taxpayers, and for the ratepayers, and for people."
"But my real question to you, Mr. Simms, is who pays?"
"Isn't it the ratepayers of the Northwest that are now going to be saddled with the burden?"
"It is kind of a means of imposing an obligation upon the people of the Northwest to pay millions, if not billions."
"It is an unachievable standard, and it is not a defined standard."
"So, if the greatest threat to the planet is climate change, and the greatest success in world history is the United States' transition to natural gas, how can those two things co-exist?"
"The greatest reduction in emissions have already been banked. The strategies that you are talking about are dream world."