Along with my colleague, Representative McMorris Rodgers, and other Pacific Northwest bipartisan colleagues, I have been working on legislative efforts to protect this system and our hydroelectric dams.

I just wanted to say that I was at McNary Dam this spring, and the operators at the dam, and that was right after the spill order began, were already seeing fish with symptoms of gas poisoning at that point, and that apparently was at the…

I believe it is important that Congress is educated about how vital our Federal River Power System is to the Pacific Northwest.

H.R. 3144, the legislation introduced by Representative McMorris Rodgers and I to provide certainty and reliability for the Federal river power system.

My humble opinion is that one judge in Portland doesn't know how to manage this river system better than the experts.

I will continue to implore our Senators Cantwell and Murray to help stop the spill orders, to protect and to save our dams.

We can indeed balance economic prosperity as well as the environmental stewardship. Fish and dams can co-exist.

Thank you to Washington's U.S. Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Dan Newhouse for their hard work on the legislation.

Why is this judge ignoring science? Why is this judge ignoring years of work on a Biological Opinion to satisfy the court demands, collaboration among Federal agencies, tribes, states, utilities, river users from the Pacific Northwest?

BPA was created in 1937 to carry out Franklin Roosevelt's vision for harnessing the power of the Columbia River.

Unfortunately, in my opinion, misguided movements continue to push for the destruction or the degradation of our river power system.

We also vigorously support your Appropriations provision to stop the spill order.

I certainly find it incredible that we are calling for more spills supposedly to help the fish, and yet that places what seems to be a high level, a toxic level of gas in the water.

I am very proud that this is my district, the 4th Congressional District.

This over-reach by the courts is why I sponsored the bipartisan bill, H.R. 3144, that passed this Committee to stop senseless spills.

I cannot believe that that would be in the best interest of anyone who is interested in supporting our environment.

It is not certain that dams now cause higher mortality than would arise in a free-flowing river.

Good morning. I want to say welcome to central Washington, particularly to Chairman Lamborn and to Congresswoman McMorris Rodgers.

We also support Representatives Newhouse and McMorris Rodgers' appropriations provision to stop the spill order.

I am doing everything in my power to protect ratepayers in Central Washington.

I would also like to thank all of you for providing your testimony this morning. It was very informative.

Thank you, Chairman Lamborn. Thank you, Congresswoman McMorris Rodgers, both of you, for being here today.

I have worked very hard in my short time in Congress to support the Bonneville Power Administration and public power as a whole.

I was just told recently that there was a meeting last week in Seattle, that the gist of the meeting was that there is a direct correlation between the dams and the plight that the orcas find themselves in at Puget Sound.

I have a letter here from the Tri-Cities Legislative Council, writing with their support for H.R. 3144.