H.R. 2499 shuts the door to a new White House and essentially follows old, tainted and discredited views on what to do about Puerto Rico.

Congressman Miller sits down, he is the one that championed that bill that helped us solve the water problems in LA County.

Frankly, that is a dumb, very wasteful strategy.

That is a sustainable supply. They don't worry about droughts any more.

I would say even more today, which is something I think is really important, but throughout the United States, the energy footprint of water use and renewable energy is a critical energy that we need to examine.

Chairwoman Napolitano and I when she was Mayor of Norwalk and I was working with the agencies in LA County working with the drought.

The former Chairman Ken Calvert has been a wonderful champion of reuse in Riverside and San Bernardino County.

So I would suggest we all need to work together to figure out to structure our supplies throughout our West.

Thank you, sir [continuing]. It's good to have you back in the seat again.

To me, comparative effectiveness and moving to an outcomes-based reimbursed system isn't about cost or rationing; it is about rewarding what works and let us stop rewarding what doesn't work in health care.

We have to think about how we can cool those streams down so when the salmon come home...