What do you mean? What isn't necessary?

I mean, it seems to me it has evolved quite a bit since the original treaty.

we're hoping that we do develop a win-win situation so that we can go back and tell our children's children that, you know, things are going to change.

I certainly recognize the importance of irrigation... we have some obligation to do that.

The need to rebalance the Canadian entitlement, I feel this an absolute necessity.

I join your constituents in thanking you for your support.

I think there is some significant weight to put on it in there.

Well, I don't think they said exactly the third leg of the stool. They were saying recognizing, formalizing agreements we already have about augmented flows and maybe potentially some increments on that, I think is what they're talking…

And the values that Ms. Eichenberger put out, I'd offer that perhaps what we could do then is take an average of that, which is $118 million a year, and write you a check and forget about the exchange of power.

a treaty that's going to be negotiated from Washington, DC, to someplace else is fraught for some potential problems

would that trigger a consultation or something with the Federal Government?

the trigger is national versus provincial interest?

I ask of you as a colleague... that we pass this bill in the spirit of a call for service

It is my understanding that Appropriations would take it out of the Interior account.

So we have this donation by the States. If we repay, mandate donation repayment, where does it come from?

if you are going to bust the culture of poverty, you are going to do it through trying to empower people to provide education for themselves

I want to thank you for being in public service, and I want to thank all of those in service

I think we have seen with some other agencies... they essentially allow people who have an interest to contribute resources.

Well, I get that, but OK. So let's not be fiscally constrained.

The balance of FAA oversight is insufficient.

We are living off of a 19th and 20th century infrastructure as relates to water storage in the Western United States for the most part.

We are not investing in America's infrastructure the way our competitor nations are around the world.

Our Nation is already threatened with a credit downgrade, close to the point of default, because the Republicans have linked their shutdown now to the debt limit.

You can't create something and then pretend you are outraged by the results, which is what I am hearing from the other side of the aisle.

Instead of trying to prevent economic hardship, potential financial catastrophe, we're having a hearing that is at best nonsensical.