the administration has developed specific guidance to assist the burgeoning wind industry, and has selectively prosecuted only a handful of violations.

This followed with 2 good water years.

As Chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, I have painfully watched the cycle that has gone on over here for the past several years.

It doesn't have to be that way. As a matter of fact, had the bill that we passed out of the last Congress passed and been signed into law, we wouldn't be in this particular situation today.

Entire agriculture economies and ways of life grew around our ability to irrigate these once-dormant lands.

Let's stop the deliberate diversion of billions of gallons of water to a 3-inch fish where the science has not demonstrated that the fish is being helped by diversions.

We are literally throwing that legacy away by thinking that conservation alone can resolve water shortages, because it can't.

In our regions, food grows where water flows.

It is a pleasure for me to be back here in Fresno because my regions that I have the privilege to represent are very much the same as the Central Valleys of California.

I would just remind you, our country put a man on the moon in less time than that.

We cannot enact law in our country unless both houses act.

It is now time for the Senate to act.

The Endangered Species Act needs reform, and we plan on our committee to begin that process in the next several weeks.

It doesn't have to be this way.

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Chair, I want to thank the gentleman from Colorado for recognizing that the Federal Government's taking of water rights and economic collateral of ski areas is wrong. His amendment also…

I thank the gentleman for his work on the underlying bill and his amendment. I support the amendment.

I yield myself the balance of the time. Madam Chairman, let me just comment on a few points here that were made by my friends on the other side of the aisle. There was some concern about the timing of the hearing and the people who were…

I am very pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Woodall), a member of the Rules Committee.

I am very pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Smith) another member of the Natural Resources Committee.

I am very pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentlemen from California (Mr. McClintock), another member of the Natural Resources Committee. {time} 1500 Mr. McCLINTOCK. Madam Chairman, people need to understand exactly what is going on here…

I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentlelady from Wyoming (Mrs. Lummis), a member of the Natural Resources Committee.

President Obama has made no secret of the fact that he is willing to act unilaterally to impose new laws and regulations on the American people, declaring that he has ``a pen and a phone.'' Over the last 5 years, there have been numerous…

I am very pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Tipton), the sponsor of this legislation.

I am very pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Gardner), who I think was a member of the committee but is not anymore.

I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I want to commend the gentleman from Oklahoma for his hard work on behalf of Native Americans. American Indian tribes rely on their water rights to provide critical supplies to their people and to…