Mrs. Cathy McMorris Rodgers is eastern Washington's chief advocate in Congress.

We reached across the aisle. We have worked with U.S. Senators Tom Harkin, the late Arlen Specter, Richard Shelby.

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.

Dams and fish can co-exist, but we must get out of the courtroom and allow fish recovery to continue.

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

H.R. 3916, the Federally Integrated Species Health Act--or FISH Act--introduced by Mr. Calvert of California, is the second bipartisan-supported bill.

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

H.R. 3144, sponsored by Mrs. McMorris Rodgers of Washington State.

Despite all the benefits it brings to the region, the Federal Columbia River Power System has been mired in third-party litigation, questionable judicial edicts and onerous Federal regulations for decades.

Barack Obama summed up the need for this bill as well as any of us could here could.

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