Cathy McMorris Rodgers actually said...

"This bill would simply codify the current BiOp and reassert Congress' authority over the dams."

"Without Grand Coulee and Bonneville dams it would have been almost impossible to win this war."

"Hydropower is a reliable and emissions-free source of electricity that accounts for a majority of the Nation's total renewable electricity generation."

"The bipartisan legislation, H.R. 3144, introduced by Mrs. McMorris Rodgers of Washington, looks to provide certainty and reliability to a hydropower system thrust into a state of legal purgatory."