Peter DeFazio

The trigger is national versus provincial interest?

I think it's important to start that dialog as soon as we possibly can

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

Regardless of administration, people look to what we have here in the Northwest with our power generation very enviously

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

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.

Need will only increase as this region continues to grow and as food supply and security continue to grow in importance.

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

Rebalancing the Canadian Entitlement is a very important opportunity to ease pressure on rates.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The balance of FAA oversight is insufficient.

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

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

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.

This is absolutely the height of hypocrisy, the fact that we're here today trying to figure out why the parks are closed because of a government shutdown

They aren't doing anything by keeping the government closed to help those in rural areas who want to work.

The Republicans are saying the sequestration, which they created, which has cut your budget back to below 2008 year levels, is politically motivated

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.