"I would also like to thank all of you for providing your testimony this morning. It was very informative."
"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 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..."
"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 themselv..."
"I cannot believe that that would be in the best interest of anyone who is interested in supporting our environment."
"I have a letter here from the Tri-Cities Legislative Council, writing with their support for H.R. 3144."
"I have worked very hard in my short time in Congress to support the Bonneville Power Administration and public power as a whole."
"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."
"Thank you, Chairman Lamborn. Thank you, Congresswoman McMorris Rodgers, both of you, for being here today."
"It is not certain that dams now cause higher mortality than would arise in a free-flowing river."
"We can indeed balance economic prosperity as well as the environmental stewardship. Fish and dams can co-exist."