Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you again for bringing the field hearing to eastern Washington, and to all who have testified.

Governor Newsom begged residents to stop using their air conditioning and don't charge your electric battery vehicles.

Sometimes I like to refer to the dams as the largest natural battery out there.

Why is the Biden administration failing to aggressively act to protect the billions upon billions of taxpayer, ratepayer, and business dollars in building, improving, and operating the four Lower Snake River dams?

Is the Biden administration, through its Council on Environmental Quality, NOAA, Army Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of Reclamation, and BPA using 'mediation'... as a means of avoiding congressional oversight?

Why is the Biden administration purposely ignoring the fact that based on existing science, even if the Snake River dams were gone, the benefits of salmon runs in the Snake River would be barely measurable?

Congressman Mike Simpson... has said that although he supports dam removal, such removal should not happen until replacement power... has been built and is on-line.

Without them, we are in big trouble.

Today is about facts. The Lower Snake River dams have the capacity to generate 3,000 megawatts of reliable, clean electricity.

Let's get focused on improving mobility, mobility choices. Let's get focused on American technology and innovation.

This rule is completely a mandate by the Federal Government to tell Americans what they think is best.