1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,000 starttime 1255633451.67933 2 00:00:13,001 --> 00:00:14,000 MR. CARNAHAN OF MISSOURI. 3 00:00:14,001 --> 00:00:16,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: FOR 4 00:00:16,001 --> 00:00:17,000 WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE GENTLEMAN 5 00:00:17,001 --> 00:00:19,000 FROM CALIFORNIA RISE? 6 00:00:19,001 --> 00:00:24,000 >> MR. SPEAKER, PURSUANT TO 7 00:00:24,001 --> 00:00:25,000 HOUSE RESOLUTION 830, I CAL 8 00:00:25,001 --> 00:00:27,000 IMMEDIATE CONSIDERATION INTO THE 9 00:00:27,001 --> 00:00:28,000 HOUSE. 10 00:00:28,001 --> 00:00:29,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 11 00:00:29,001 --> 00:00:30,000 CLERK WILL REPORT THE TITLE OF 12 00:00:30,001 --> 00:00:32,000 THE BILL. 13 00:00:32,001 --> 00:00:33,000 THE CLERK: UNION CALENDAR NUMBER 14 00:00:33,001 --> 00:00:35,000 149, H.R. 2442, A BILL TO AMEND 15 00:00:35,001 --> 00:00:37,000 THE RECLAMATION, WASTEWATER AND 16 00:00:37,001 --> 00:00:38,000 GROUNDWATER 17 00:00:38,001 --> 00:00:39,000 ACT TO EXPAND THE BAY AREA 18 00:00:39,001 --> 00:00:45,000 REGIONAL WATER RECYCLING PROGRAM 19 00:00:45,001 --> 00:00:47,000 AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: 20 00:00:47,001 --> 00:00:50,000 PURSUANT WHO HOUSE RESOLUTI 21 00:00:50,001 --> 00:00:52,000 830, THE YOU -- RESOLUTION 80, 22 00:00:52,001 --> 00:00:53,000 IT IS CONSIDERED READ. 23 00:00:53,001 --> 00:00:55,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA, 24 00:00:55,001 --> 00:00:56,000 MR. MILLER, AND THE GENTLEMAN 25 00:00:56,001 --> 00:00:58,000 FROM WASHINGTON, MR. HASTINGS, 26 00:00:58,001 --> 00:00:59,000 EACH WILL CONTROL 30 MINUTES. 27 00:00:59,001 --> 00:01:01,000 THE CHAIR RECOGNIZES THE 28 00:01:01,001 --> 00:01:02,000 GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA. 29 00:01:02,001 --> 00:01:03,000 MR. MILLER: MR. SPEAKER, I ASK 30 00:01:03,001 --> 00:01:05,000 UNANIMOUS CONSENT THAT ALL 31 00:01:05,001 --> 00:01:06,000 MEMBERS MA 32 00:01:06,001 --> 00:01:07,000 LEGISLATIVE DAYS TO REVISE AND 33 00:01:07,001 --> 00:01:09,000 EXTEND THEIR REMARKS AND INCLUDE 34 00:01:09,001 --> 00:01:12,000 EXTRANEOUS MATERIAL ON H.R. 35 00:01:12,001 --> 00:01:13,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT 36 00:01:13,001 --> 00:01:14,000 OBJECTION. 37 00:01:14,001 --> 00:01:16,000 MR. MILLER: MR. SPEAKER, I YIELD 38 00:01:16,001 --> 00:01:22,000 THREE MINUTES TO THE CHAIRMAN OF 39 00:01:22,001 --> 00:01:29,000 THE NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE. THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 40 00:01:29,001 --> 00:01:30,000 HOUSE WILL BE IN ORDER. 41 00:01:30,001 --> 00:01:32,000 THE GENTLEMAN MAY CONTINUE. 42 00:01:32,001 --> 00:01:34,000 >> THANK YOU, MR. SPEAKER. 43 00:01:34,001 --> 00:01:36,000 MR. SPEAKER, I WISH TO IN THE 44 00:01:36,001 --> 00:01:38,000 VERY BEGINNING COMMEND THE 45 00:01:38,001 --> 00:01:39,000 GENTLEMAN FROM CALORNIA, THE 46 00:01:39,001 --> 00:01:40,000 CHAIRMAN OF OUR EDUCATION AND 47 00:01:40,001 --> 00:01:43,000 LABOR, MR. GEORGE MILLER, FOR 48 00:01:43,001 --> 00:01:46,000 THE TREMENDOUS LEADERSHIP AND 49 00:01:46,001 --> 00:01:49,000 DEDICATION AND PERSISTENCE AND 50 00:01:49,001 --> 00:01:51,000 PATIENCE WITH WHICH HE HAS HANDLED THE PEBBEDING 51 00:01:51,001 --> 00:01:52,000 LEGISLATION. 52 00:01:52,001 --> 00:01:54,000 I WISH TO ALSO COMMEND THE 53 00:01:54,001 --> 00:01:55,000 DISTINGUISHED CHAIR LADY OF OUR 54 00:01:55,001 --> 00:01:57,000 SUBCOMMITTEE ON WATER, OUR 55 00:01:57,001 --> 00:01:59,000 NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE, 56 00:01:59,001 --> 00:02:01,000 MRS. GRACE NAPOLITANO. 57 00:02:01,001 --> 00:02:03,000 I DO RISE IN MY CAPACITY AS 58 00:02:03,001 --> 00:02:04,000 CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE ON 59 00:02:04,001 --> 00:02:06,000 NATURAL RESOURCES TO SPORT THE 60 00:02:06,001 --> 00:02:07,000 PENDING LEGISLATION WHICH WAS 61 00:02:07,001 --> 00:02:10,000 FAVORABLY REPORTED OUT OF OUR 62 00:02:10,001 --> 00:02:11,000 COMMITTEE WITHOUT CONTROVERSY. 63 00:02:11,001 --> 00:02:13,000 BY NOW I WOULD THINK THAT MOST 64 00:02:13,001 --> 00:02:15,000 OF US ARE AWARE THAT THEREARE 65 00:02:15,001 --> 00:02:17,000 MAJOR ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH 66 00:02:17,001 --> 00:02:19,000 DROUGHT AND AGRICULTURE IN 67 00:02:19,001 --> 00:02:20,000 CAIFORNIA. 68 00:02:20,001 --> 00:02:23,000 WHILE THE RAINY SEASON HAS HIT 69 00:02:23,001 --> 00:02:25,000 LITTLE TO REFILL RESERVOIRS THAT 70 00:02:25,001 --> 00:02:27,000 HAVEN'T SEEN NORMAL LEVEL OF 71 00:02:27,001 --> 00:02:29,000 RAINFALL FOR YEARS. 72 00:02:29,001 --> 00:02:30,000 THE IMPACTS OF THE DROUGHT ARE 73 00:02:30,001 --> 00:02:32,000 OBVIOUS. 74 00:02:32,001 --> 00:02:35,000 WHETHER WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 75 00:02:35,001 --> 00:02:37,000 BROWN LAWNS, OR INCREASED 76 00:02:37,001 --> 00:02:40,000 RATES FOR STRUGGLING FAMILIES. 77 00:02:40,001 --> 00:02:43,000 TO ADDRESS THIS DIRE SITUATION, 78 00:02:43,001 --> 00:02:45,000 THE PENDING MEASURE IS BASED ON 79 00:02:45,001 --> 00:02:48,000 CONSERVATION THROUGH REUSE. 80 00:02:48,001 --> 00:02:51,000 BY RECYCLING WATER, THIS BILL 81 00:02:51,001 --> 00:02:52,000 WOULD CREATE 39,000 ACRE FEET OF 82 00:02:52,001 --> 00:02:54,000 WATER OR ENOUGH WATER TO SUPPLY 83 00:02:54,001 --> 00:02:56,000 OVER 24,000 HOMES. 84 00:02:56,001 --> 00:02:58,000 WE'RE BRINGING THIS LEGISLATION 85 00:02:58,001 --> 00:03:00,000 UP UNDER A RULE TODAY BECAUSE A 86 00:03:00,001 --> 00:03:01,000 VERY VOCAL MINORITY OPPOSED THIS 87 00:03:01,001 --> 00:03:03,000 BILL FOR REASONS UNRE 88 00:03:03,001 --> 00:03:05,000 THE MERITS OF THE LEGISLATION. 89 00:03:05,001 --> 00:03:07,000 I'M FORTUNATE TO COME FROM A 90 00:03:07,001 --> 00:03:08,000 STATE WITH A FUNDED WATER 91 00:03:08,001 --> 00:03:09,000 RESOURCE. 92 00:03:09,001 --> 00:03:11,000 I UNDERSTAND THAT WATER IS 93 00:03:11,001 --> 00:03:12,000 CRITICAL FOR BOTH PEOPLE AND OUR 94 00:03:12,001 --> 00:03:14,000 ECONOMY. 95 00:03:14,001 --> 00:03:15,000 WHAT I DO NOT UNDERSTAND IS WHY 96 00:03:15,001 --> 00:03:17,000 SOME MEMBERS ON THE OTHER SIDE 97 00:03:17,001 --> 00:03:19,000 WANT TO USE THIS BILL AS A 98 00:03:19,001 --> 00:03:21,000 STRONG MAN SO THEY CAN DEMAGOGUE 99 00:03:21,001 --> 00:03:23,000 DEMOCRATS ON THE DROUGHT ISSUE. 100 00:03:23,001 --> 00:03:24,000 ONE REPUBLICAN MEMBER FROM 101 00:03:24,001 --> 00:03:25,000 CALIFORNIA IN PARTICULAR FILED A 102 00:03:25,001 --> 00:03:27,000 NUMBER OF AMENDMENTS THAT ARE 103 00:03:27,001 --> 00:03:30,000 VERY G 104 00:03:30,001 --> 00:03:31,000 HEADLINES AND CONTROVERSY. 105 00:03:31,001 --> 00:03:32,000 UNFORTUNATELY THE AMENDMENTS 106 00:03:32,001 --> 00:03:34,000 WERE NOT GERMANE TO THE SUBJECT 107 00:03:34,001 --> 00:03:35,000 MATTER OF THE BILL BEFORE US, 108 00:03:35,001 --> 00:03:36,000 NOR ARE THEY VERY THOUGHTFUL AND 109 00:03:36,001 --> 00:03:38,000 REALISTIC SOLUTIONS TO THE 110 00:03:38,001 --> 00:03:39,000 CRISIS BEFORE US. 111 00:03:39,001 --> 00:03:43,000 OPPOSITION TO THIS 112 00:03:43,001 --> 00:03:45,000 IS LIKE CUTTING OFF ONE'S NOSE 113 00:03:45,001 --> 00:03:47,000 TO FIGHT ONE'S FACE. 114 00:03:47,001 --> 00:03:48,000 WATER ISSUES ARE NOT A ZERO SUM 115 00:03:48,001 --> 00:03:50,000 GAME, CREATING MORE WATER 116 00:03:50,001 --> 00:03:53,000 THROUGH REUSE AND URBANIZED 117 00:03:53,001 --> 00:03:54,000 AREAS REDUCES PRESSURE ON WATER 118 00:03:54,001 --> 00:03:57,000 DEMANDS ELSEWHERE IN THE STATE. 119 00:03:57,001 --> 00:04:00,000 IF OPPONENTS TO THIS BUDGET -- 120 00:04:00,001 --> 00:04:01,000 LEGISLATION WANT TO FIX 121 00:04:01,001 --> 00:04:02,000 CALIFORNIA'S WATER WOES, I 122 00:04:02,001 --> 00:04:04,000 SUGGEST GETTING REAL ABOUT 123 00:04:04,001 --> 00:04:05,000 FINDING SOLUTIONS AND STOP THE 124 00:04:05,001 --> 00:04:06,000 PARTISAN POLITICAL ATTACKS. 125 00:04:06,001 --> 00:04:08,000 THE BILL BEFORE US TODAY CREATES 126 00:04:08,001 --> 00:04:11,000 NEW WATER RESOURCES THROUGH 127 00:04:11,001 --> 00:04:14,000 REUSE. 128 00:04:14,001 --> 00:04:16,000 BILL WITHOUT ANY CONTROVERSY 129 00:04:16,001 --> 00:04:18,000 INCLUDING BILLS FROM MY 130 00:04:18,001 --> 00:04:19,000 REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUES IN 131 00:04:19,001 --> 00:04:21,000 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, UTAH AND 132 00:04:21,001 --> 00:04:23,000 OREGON. THE ONLY REASON WE ARE HERE 133 00:04:23,001 --> 00:04:25,000 TODAY DEBATING THIS LEGISLATION 134 00:04:25,001 --> 00:04:26,000 IS BECAUSE ONE MEMBER THINKS THE 135 00:04:26,001 --> 00:04:28,000 SOLUTION TO THE SEVERE DROUGHT 136 00:04:28,001 --> 00:04:30,000 IS TO GUT ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS AND 137 00:04:30,001 --> 00:04:33,000 OVERTURN COURT DECISIONS. 138 00:04:33,001 --> 00:04:34,000 PERHAPS THAT MEMBER SHOULD 139 00:04:34,001 --> 00:04:37,000 PROPOSE A RAIN DANCE AS WELL. 140 00:04:37,001 --> 00:04:38,000 SO IT IS TIME TO SUPPORT H.R. 141 00:04:38,001 --> 00:04:40,000 2442 AND MOVE FORWARD WITH 142 00:04:40,001 --> 00:04:42,000 PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS FOR A REAL 143 00:04:42,001 --> 00:04:44,000 DROUGHT IN CALIFORNIA. 144 00:04:44,001 --> 00:04:45,000 I URGE SUPPORT OF 145 00:04:45,001 --> 00:04:48,000 LEGISLATION AND YIELD BACK MY 146 00:04:48,001 --> 00:04:49,000 TIME TO THE GENTLEMAN FROM 147 00:04:49,001 --> 00:04:54,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 148 00:04:54,001 --> 00:04:55,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK. 149 00:04:55,001 --> 00:04:57,000 WILL THE GENTLEMAN SUSPEND? 150 00:04:57,001 --> 00:04:58,000 THE CHAIR WILL RECEIVE A 151 00:04:58,001 --> 00:04:59,000 MESSAGE. 152 00:04:59,001 --> 00:05:02,000 THE MESSENGER: MR. SPEAKER, A 153 00:05:02,001 --> 00:05:03,000 MESSAGE FROM THE SENATE. 154 00:05:03,001 --> 00:05:04,000 THE SECRETARY: MR. SPEAKER. 155 00:05:04,001 --> 00:05:05,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: MS. 156 00:05:05,001 --> 00:05:07,000 SECRETARY. 157 00:05:07,001 --> 00:05:09,000 THE SECRETARY: I HAVE BEEN 158 00:05:09,001 --> 00:05:10,000 DIRECTED BY THE SENATE TO INFORM 159 00:05:10,001 --> 00:05:11,000 THE HOUSE THAT THE SENATE HAS 160 00:05:11,001 --> 00:05:13,000 AGREED TO THE CONFERENCE REPORT 161 00:05:13,001 --> 00:05:15,000 ACCOMPANYING H.R. 3183, MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR WATER 162 00:05:15,001 --> 00:05:16,000 DEVELOPMENT AND RELATED AGENCIES 163 00:05:16,001 --> 00:05:18,000 FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING 164 00:05:18,001 --> 00:05:21,000 SEPTEMBER 30, 2010, AND FOR 165 00:05:21,001 --> 00:05:22,000 OTHER PURPOSES. 166 00:05:22,001 --> 00:05:24,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 167 00:05:24,001 --> 00:05:25,000 GE 168 00:05:25,001 --> 00:05:27,000 PROCEED. 169 00:05:27,001 --> 00:05:28,000 MR. HASTINGS: MR. SPEAKER, I 170 00:05:28,001 --> 00:05:29,000 YIELD MYSELF AS MUCH TIME AS I 171 00:05:29,001 --> 00:05:30,000 MAY CONSUME. 172 00:05:30,001 --> 00:05:32,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: WITHOUT 173 00:05:32,001 --> 00:05:33,000 OBJECTION. 174 00:05:33,001 --> 00:05:34,000 MR. HASTINGS: MR. SPEAKER, I 175 00:05:34,001 --> 00:05:35,000 RISE ARE YOU LUCK CONTAMINANTLY 176 00:05:35,001 --> 00:05:36,000 TO OPPOSE THIS BILL. 177 00:05:36,001 --> 00:05:38,000 I SAY SO RELUCTANTLY BECAUSE I 178 00:05:38,001 --> 00:05:39,000 AND COLLEAGUES ON MY SIDE OF THE 179 00:05:39,001 --> 00:05:41,000 AISLE DO SUPPORT WATER 180 00:05:41,001 --> 00:05:42,000 RECYCLING. 181 00:05:42,001 --> 00:05:43,000 WE THINK IT'S A VALUABLE TOOL IN 182 00:05:43,001 --> 00:05:44,000 PROVIDING WATT TIER TO OUR 183 00:05:44,001 --> 00:05:47,000 FARMERS AND COMMUNITIES A-- 184 00:05:47,001 --> 00:05:48,000 WATER TO OUR FARMERS AND 185 00:05:48,001 --> 00:05:51,000 COMMUNITIES ACROSS AMERICA JUST 186 00:05:51,001 --> 00:05:54,000 AS WATER STORAGE IS A TOOL FOR PROVIDING WATER FOR OUR 187 00:05:54,001 --> 00:05:55,000 COMMUNITIES. 188 00:05:55,001 --> 00:05:56,000 MR. SPEAKER, E DEMOCRAT 189 00:05:56,001 --> 00:05:57,000 SPONSOR OF THIS LEGISLATION AND 190 00:05:57,001 --> 00:05:59,000 THE MANAGER OF THIS BILL, THE 191 00:05:59,001 --> 00:06:00,000 GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA, HAS 192 00:06:00,001 --> 00:06:02,000 SAID PREVIOUSLY AND IS CORRECT 193 00:06:02,001 --> 00:06:05,000 THAT REPUBLICAN WATER RECYCLING 194 00:06:05,001 --> 00:06:06,000 BILLS HAVE PASSED THIS HOUSE. 195 00:06:06,001 --> 00:06:08,000 THAT IS CORRECT. 196 00:06:08,001 --> 00:06:09,000 THE QUESTION IS, THEN, WHY IS 197 00:06:09,001 --> 00:06:11,000 THIS BILL DIFFERENT? 198 00:06:11,001 --> 00:06:13,000 AND THE ANSWER, MR. SPEAKER, IS VERY SIMPLE -- SIMPLE. 199 00:06:13,001 --> 00:06:15,000 WEN THERE IS AN ECONOMIC 200 00:06:15,001 --> 00:06:18,000 DISASTER OCCURRING IN THE SAN 201 00:06:18,001 --> 00:06:19,000 JOAQUIN VALLEY OF CALIFORNIA, 202 00:06:19,001 --> 00:06:21,000 WHEN MANMADE AND GOVERNMENT 203 00:06:21,001 --> 00:06:23,000 ENFORCED DROUGHT HAS DRIED UP 204 00:06:23,001 --> 00:06:27,000 FARM AFTER FARM IN THAT VALLEY, 205 00:06:27,001 --> 00:06:28,000 WITH 40,000 WORKERS UNEMPLOYED, 206 00:06:28,001 --> 00:06:30,000 STANDING IN FOOD LINES AND BEING 207 00:06:30,001 --> 00:06:31,000 IGNORED BY THE LEADERSHIP IN 208 00:06:31,001 --> 00:06:33,000 THIS HOUSE, WHEN SOLUTIONS TO 209 00:06:33,001 --> 00:06:35,000 BRING WATER AND RELIEF TO THIS 210 00:06:35,001 --> 00:06:37,000 AREA HAVE BEEN BLOCKED AND 211 00:06:37,001 --> 00:06:40,000 STYMIED AGAIN BY THE LEADERSHIP 212 00:06:40,001 --> 00:06:41,000 IN THIS HOUSE, THEN A POINT 213 00:06:41,001 --> 00:06:44,000 COMES, MR. SPEAKER, WHEN MEMBERS 214 00:06:44,001 --> 00:06:47,000 OF THIS HOUSE HAVTO SAY, 215 00:06:47,001 --> 00:06:48,000 ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. 216 00:06:48,001 --> 00:06:50,000 THE WATER RECYCLING BILL BEFORE 217 00:06:50,001 --> 00:06:52,000 US BENEFITS THE SAN FRANCISCO 218 00:06:52,001 --> 00:06:53,000 BAY AREA. 219 00:06:53,001 --> 00:06:54,000 THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE 220 00:06:54,001 --> 00:06:57,000 REPRESENTS THE CITY OF SAN 221 00:06:57,001 --> 00:06:59,000 FRANCISCO. 222 00:06:59,001 --> 00:07:01,000 AND ONE OF HER TOP DEPUTIES WHO 223 00:07:01,001 --> 00:07:03,000 HAPPENS TO BE THE SPOPSER OF 224 00:07:03,001 --> 00:07:04,000 THIS BILL, IS ALSO FROM THE BAY 225 00:07:04,001 --> 00:07:06,000 AREA. 226 00:07:06,001 --> 00:07:07,000 THIS BILL PROVIDES MILLIONS OF 227 00:07:07,001 --> 00:07:09,000 FEDERAL TAXPAYER DOLLARS FOR THE 228 00:07:09,001 --> 00:07:11,000 BAY AREA. 229 00:07:11,001 --> 00:07:15,000 ALL THE WHILE, TENS OF THOUSANDS 230 00:07:15,001 --> 00:07:18,000 OF THEIR FELLOW CITIZENS SUFFER 231 00:07:18,001 --> 00:07:20,000 ECONOMIC DEVASTATION JUST A FEW 232 00:07:20,001 --> 00:07:22,000 HOURS SOUTH AND INLAND IN THE 233 00:07:22,001 --> 00:07:24,000 SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY. 234 00:07:24,001 --> 00:07:25,000 ALL THAT WAS SOUGHT BY THE TWO 235 00:07:25,001 --> 00:07:27,000 REPUBLICAN MEMBERS FROM THE SAN 236 00:07:27,001 --> 00:07:29,000 JOAQUIN VALLEY WAS THE EXPRESS 237 00:07:29,001 --> 00:07:31,000 SUPPORT, I MIGHT ADD, OF ONE OF 238 00:07:31,001 --> 00:07:33,000 THEIR MEMBERS FROM CALIFORNIA IN 239 00:07:33,001 --> 00:07:35,000 THE SAME AREA ON THE RULES 240 00:07:35,001 --> 00:07:36,000 COMMITTEE, WAS TO HAVE A CHANCE, 241 00:07:36,001 --> 00:07:39,000 JUST A CHANCE, TO MAKE THEIR 242 00:07:39,001 --> 00:07:41,000 CASE ON THE HOUSE FLOOR AND VOTE 243 00:07:41,001 --> 00:07:44,000 FOR A SOLUTION TO THIS 244 00:07:44,001 --> 00:07:45,000 IN THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY. 245 00:07:45,001 --> 00:07:46,000 MR. SPEAKER, THEY DIDN'T ASK 246 00:07:46,001 --> 00:07:48,000 THAT THE AMENDMENT THAT THEY 247 00:07:48,001 --> 00:07:50,000 WANTED MADE IN ORDER TO BE 248 00:07:50,001 --> 00:07:51,000 PASSED, THEY JUST ASKED FOR THE 249 00:07:51,001 --> 00:07:55,000 ABILITY TO BE HEARD SO THEY CAN 250 00:07:55,001 --> 00:07:57,000 PERSUADE OTHERS TO PERHAPS VOTE 251 00:07:57,001 --> 00:08:00,000 WITH THEM. 252 00:08:00,001 --> 00:08:01,000 THAT'S ALL ANOF US COULD ASK. 253 00:08:01,001 --> 00:08:02,000 MR. SPEAKER, THAT CHANCE HAS 254 00:08:02,001 --> 00:08:05,000 EN DENIED, IT'S BEEN BLOCKED. 255 00:08:05,001 --> 00:08:06,000 THEIR AMENDMENTS WERE DEEMED 256 00:08:06,001 --> 00:08:07,000 NONGERMANE. 257 00:08:07,001 --> 00:08:11,000 IT'S BEEN LABELED AS IRRELEVANT 258 00:08:11,001 --> 00:08:13,000 TO THE BILL BEFORE US. 259 00:08:13,001 --> 00:08:14,000 MR. SPEAKER, MIGHT DOES NOT MAKE 260 00:08:14,001 --> 00:08:16,000 RIGHT WHEN IT COMESO WHO 261 00:08:16,001 --> 00:08:17,000 CONTROLS THE HOUSE BECAUSE WHAT 262 00:08:17,001 --> 00:08:19,000 THE LEADERSHIP IS UNWILLING TO 263 00:08:19,001 --> 00:08:22,000 DO IS POTENTIALLY PROVIDE RELIEF 264 00:08:22,001 --> 00:08:25,000 TO THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN HURT BY 265 00:08:25,001 --> 00:08:29,000 JOAQUIN VALLEY. 266 00:08:29,001 --> 00:08:30,000 A 267 00:08:30,001 --> 00:08:33,000 GOVERNMENT. 268 00:08:33,001 --> 00:08:34,000 IT'S BEEN STATED ALSO THAT THE 269 00:08:34,001 --> 00:08:39,000 DROUGHT IS A CALIFORNIA ISSUE. 270 00:08:39,001 --> 00:08:40,000 THE IMPLICATION OF THAT IS T 271 00:08:40,001 --> 00:08:42,000 THIS IS NOT OF A CONCERN TO 272 00:08:42,001 --> 00:08:43,000 OTHER AMERICANS. 273 00:08:43,001 --> 00:08:45,000 MR. SPEAKER, THAT SIMPLY IS 274 00:08:45,001 --> 00:08:46,000 WRONG. 275 00:08:46,001 --> 00:08:48,000 WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE SAN 276 00:08:48,001 --> 00:08:49,000 JOAQUIN VALLEY OF CALIFORNIA 277 00:08:49,001 --> 00:08:51,000 DOES AFFECT ALL AMERICANS. 278 00:08:51,001 --> 00:08:53,000 IF THIS WATER RECYCLING BILL TO 279 00:08:53,001 --> 00:08:55,000 BENEFIT THE BAY AREA IS WORTHY 280 00:08:55,001 --> 00:08:58,000 OF CONSIDERATION BY THE 281 00:08:58,001 --> 00:09:01,000 REPRESENTATIVES OF ALL 50 STATES 282 00:09:01,001 --> 00:09:04,000 IN THIS HOUSE, THEN SO IS THE 283 00:09:04,001 --> 00:09:06,000 DROUGHT DISASTER ISSUE. 284 00:09:06,001 --> 00:09:09,000 MR. SPEAKER, IF THIS CAN HAPPEN 285 00:09:09,001 --> 00:09:11,000 IN CALIFORNIA THEN WHAT OF THE 286 00:09:11,001 --> 00:09:12,000 FARMERS IN THE CENTRAL 287 00:09:12,001 --> 00:09:14,000 WASHINGTON DISTRICTS THAT I 288 00:09:14,001 --> 00:09:15,000 REPRESENT? 289 00:09:15,001 --> 00:09:18,000 HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF ACRES 290 00:09:18,001 --> 00:09:20,000 OF FARMLAND ARE IRRIGATED IN MY 291 00:09:20,001 --> 00:09:23,000 DISTRICT WITH WATER DELI 292 00:09:23,001 --> 00:09:25,000 FEDERAL PUMPS AND FROM FEDERAL 293 00:09:25,001 --> 00:09:29,000 RESERVOIRS. 294 00:09:29,001 --> 00:09:30,000 I DO NOT EVER WANT TO SEE THE 295 00:09:30,001 --> 00:09:32,000 GOVERNMENT FORCED DROUGHT 296 00:09:32,001 --> 00:09:33,000 DEVASTATES THESE COMMUNITIES 297 00:09:33,001 --> 00:09:34,000 THAT I REPRESENT. 298 00:09:34,001 --> 00:09:37,000 NOW, MR. SPEAKER, THIS ISN'T THE 299 00:09:37,001 --> 00:09:38,000 FIRST INCIDENCE WHEN FEDERAL 300 00:09:38,001 --> 00:09:41,000 POLICIES HAVE THREATENED TO CUT 301 00:09:41,001 --> 00:09:44,000 OF PEOPLE. 302 00:09:44,001 --> 00:09:46,000 EARLIER IN THIS DECADE THE CITY 303 00:09:46,001 --> 00:09:48,000 OF QUEARK IN NEW MEXICO WAS 304 00:09:48,001 --> 00:09:49,000 THAT -- ALBUQUERQUE IN NEW 305 00:09:49,001 --> 00:09:51,000 MEXICO WAS THREATENED WITH THE 306 00:09:51,001 --> 00:09:54,000 LOSS OF ITS WATER SUPPLY DUE TO 307 00:09:54,001 --> 00:09:56,000 THE PRESENCE OF THE SILVERY 308 00:09:56,001 --> 00:09:57,000 MINNOW. 309 00:09:57,001 --> 00:09:58,000 CONGRESS ACTED TO PROVIDE RELIEF 310 00:09:58,001 --> 00:10:00,000 TO NEW MEXICO WHEN THE HOUSE AND 311 00:10:00,001 --> 00:10:02,000 THE SENATE, IN A BIPARTISAN WAY, 312 00:10:02,001 --> 00:10:05,000 VOTED FOR A REMEDY TO 313 00:10:05,001 --> 00:10:06,000 ALBUQUERQUE'S PROBLEMS. 314 00:10:06,001 --> 00:10:09,000 TODAY, UNFORTUNATELY, THERE IS 315 00:10:09,001 --> 00:10:10,000 NO RELIEF TO 316 00:10:10,001 --> 00:10:13,000 JOAQUIN VALLEY, AS RELIEF DID 317 00:10:13,001 --> 00:10:14,000 COME TO THOSE IN ALBUQUERQUE. 318 00:10:14,001 --> 00:10:16,000 AND THE RELIEF THAT IS BEING 319 00:10:16,001 --> 00:10:19,000 SOUGHT, I MIGHT ADD, MR. 320 00:10:19,001 --> 00:10:20,000 SPEAKER, IS NOT A BAILOUT. 321 00:10:20,001 --> 00:10:23,000 THE AMENDMENTS THAT WERE OFFERED 322 00:10:23,001 --> 00:10:24,000 SIMPLY WERE A PLEA, AND NOT A 323 00:10:24,001 --> 00:10:26,000 PLEA FOR STIMULUS FUNDING OR ANY 324 00:10:26,001 --> 00:10:27,000 M 325 00:10:27,001 --> 00:10:32,000 IT WAS SIMPLY FOR AN OPPORTUNITY 326 00:10:32,001 --> 00:10:33,000 TO GET 327 00:10:33,001 --> 00:10:35,000 PROVIDE FOR WATER FLOW. 328 00:10:35,001 --> 00:10:38,000 IT DIDN'T COST ANYTHING. 329 00:10:38,001 --> 00:10:39,000 BUT YET IT WAS NOT GIVEN AN 330 00:10:39,001 --> 00:10:41,000 OPPORTUNITY. 331 00:10:41,001 --> 00:10:43,000 BUT, MR. SPEAKER, IF THE HOUSE 332 00:10:43,001 --> 00:10:44,000 IS GOING TO PROVIDE 333 00:10:44,001 --> 00:10:46,000 AUTHORIZATION TO SPEND TENS OF 334 00:10:46,001 --> 00:10:50,000 MILLIONOF TAXPAYER DOLLARS TO 335 00:10:50,001 --> 00:10:54,000 PROVIDEECYCLED WATER TO THE 336 00:10:54,001 --> 00:10:56,000 THIS HOUSE SHOULD BE VOTING ON 337 00:10:56,001 --> 00:10:58,000 LEGISLATION THAT BRINGS RELIEF 338 00:10:58,001 --> 00:10:59,000 TO CALIFORNIANS SUFFERING FROM 339 00:10:59,001 --> 00:11:01,000 THIS DEVTATING MANMADE 340 00:11:01,001 --> 00:11:03,000 DROUGHT. 341 00:11:03,001 --> 00:11:04,000 SO, MR. SPEAKER, IT'S ON THESE 342 00:11:04,001 --> 00:11:06,000 GROUNDS, EVEN THOUGH I SUPPORT 343 00:11:06,001 --> 00:11:08,000 THE CONCEPT OF WATER 344 00:11:08,001 --> 00:11:09,000 IT'S ON THESE GROUNDS THAT I 345 00:11:09,001 --> 00:11:12,000 HAVE TO STAND HERE AND URGE A NO 346 00:11:12,001 --> 00:11:13,000 VOTE ON THIS BILL AND WITH THAT 347 00:11:13,001 --> 00:11:14,000 I RESERVE MY TIME. 348 00:11:14,001 --> 00:11:15,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 349 00:11:15,001 --> 00:11:17,000 GENTLEMAN FROM WASHINGTON 350 00:11:17,001 --> 00:11:18,000 RESERVES. 351 00:11:18,001 --> 00:11:19,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA IS 352 00:11:19,001 --> 00:11:21,000 RECOGNIZED. 353 00:11:21,001 --> 00:11:22,000 MR. MILLER: I YIELD M 354 00:11:22,001 --> 00:11:23,000 MINUTES FOR THE PURPOSES OF 355 00:11:23,001 --> 00:11:25,000 ENTERING INTO A CO 356 00:11:25,001 --> 00:11:26,000 THE GENTLEWOMAN FROM CALIFORNIA, 357 00:11:26,001 --> 00:11:28,000 MRS. NAPOLITANO, THE CHAIRWOMAN 358 00:11:28,001 --> 00:11:30,000 OF THE W 359 00:11:30,001 --> 00:11:32,000 SUBCOMMITTEE 360 00:11:32,001 --> 00:11:34,000 I APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT FOR MY LEGISLATION, FOR HELPING TO 361 00:11:34,001 --> 00:11:35,000 EXPAND THE CA 362 00:11:35,001 --> 00:11:37,000 SUPPLY. 363 00:11:37,001 --> 00:11:39,000 IS IT TRUE WHEN THE HOUSE 364 00:11:39,001 --> 00:11:40,000 CONSIDERS THE WATER RECYCNG 365 00:11:40,001 --> 00:11:42,000 BILL JUST LAST MONTH NO 366 00:11:42,001 --> 00:11:44,000 AMENDMENTS WERE SOUGHT B 367 00:11:44,001 --> 00:11:45,000 MINORITY AND NONE WERE INCLUDED 368 00:11:45,001 --> 00:11:51,000 IN HIS WATER RECYCLING BILL AND 369 00:11:51,001 --> 00:11:53,000 THAT WAS PROOF BY A VOICE VOTE? 370 00:11:53,001 --> 00:11:54,000 MRS. NAPOLITANO: THAT IS 371 00:11:54,001 --> 00:11:57,000 CORRECT. 372 00:11:57,001 --> 00:11:58,000 THE ONE FOR MR. GALLEGLY WAS 373 00:11:58,001 --> 00:12:00,000 PASSED AND NEEMEDS WERE ASKED 374 00:12:00,001 --> 00:12:02,000 FOR AND NONE WERE INCLUDED. 375 00:12:02,001 --> 00:12:04,000 M 376 00:12:04,001 --> 00:12:06,000 ALSO TRUE THAT SO FAR THIS YEAR 377 00:12:06,001 --> 00:12:07,000 THE HOUSE APROVED FIVE WATER 378 00:12:07,001 --> 00:12:08,000 RECYCLING OR WATER REUSE BILLS 379 00:12:08,001 --> 00:12:10,000 FOR MEMBERS OF THE MINORITY 380 00:12:10,001 --> 00:12:11,000 PARTY AND NO AMEN 381 00:12:11,001 --> 00:12:14,000 TIME WERE SOUGHT FOR ANY OF 382 00:12:14,001 --> 00:12:15,000 THOSE FIVE BILLS, THAT THOSE 383 00:12:15,001 --> 00:12:16,000 FIVE WATER BILLS WERE EACH 384 00:12:16,001 --> 00:12:18,000 APPROVED UNDER SUSPENSION OF 385 00:12:18,001 --> 00:12:22,000 THE RULES EITHER BY VOICE VOTE 386 00:12:22,001 --> 00:12:24,000 OR A SUBSTANTIAL MAJORITY VOTE? 387 00:12:24,001 --> 00:12:25,000 MRS. NAPOLITANO: THAT IS 388 00:12:25,001 --> 00:12:27,000 CORRECT. 389 00:12:27,001 --> 00:12:29,000 THE HOUSE APPROVED FIVE WATER 390 00:12:29,001 --> 00:12:31,000 BILLS FOR MEMBERS OF THE MINORITY PARTY AND NO 391 00:12:31,001 --> 00:12:32,000 AMENDMENTS WERE OFFERED BY THE 392 00:12:32,001 --> 00:12:34,000 MINORITY OR THE MAJORITY TO ANY 393 00:12:34,001 --> 00:12:38,000 OF THOSE FIVE BILLS WHICH BY 394 00:12:38,001 --> 00:12:39,000 THE WAY WAS MR. ISSA, MS. BONO, 395 00:12:39,001 --> 00:12:42,000 MR. CHAFFETZ, MR. DREIER, AND 396 00:12:42,001 --> 00:12:44,000 WERE APPROVED BY A VOICE VOTE OR SUBSTANTIAL MAJORITY. 397 00:12:44,001 --> 00:12:46,000 MR. MILLER: I THANK THE 398 00:12:46,001 --> 00:12:47,000 GENTLEWOMAN. 399 00:12:47,001 --> 00:12:48,000 MADAM CHAIR, IF I CAN PURSUE 400 00:12:48,001 --> 00:12:50,000 FURTHER? 401 00:12:50,001 --> 00:12:53,000 IS IT TRUE THAT WHEN MY BILL, 402 00:12:53,001 --> 00:12:55,000 H.R. 2442, WAS CONSIDERED 403 00:12:55,001 --> 00:12:56,000 EARLIER THIS YEAR, NO 404 00:12:56,001 --> 00:12:58,000 AMENDMENTS WERE OFFERED BY THE 405 00:12:58,001 --> 00:12:59,000 MINORITY OR MAJORITY AND THE 406 00:12:59,001 --> 00:13:01,000 BILL WAS REPORTED OUT BY 407 00:13:01,001 --> 00:13:02,000 UNANIMOUS CONSENT? 408 00:13:02,001 --> 00:13:04,000 MRS. NAPOLITANO: TRUE. 409 00:13:04,001 --> 00:13:05,000 THE GENTLEMAN IS CORRECT. 410 00:13:05,001 --> 00:13:06,000 H.R. 2442 WAS APPROVED BY 411 00:13:06,001 --> 00:13:07,000 UNANIMOUS CONSENT AND NO 412 00:13:07,001 --> 00:13:09,000 AMENDMENTS WERE OFFERED BY THE 413 00:13:09,001 --> 00:13:10,000 MINORITY OR THE MAJORITY. 414 00:13:10,001 --> 00:13:11,000 MR. MILLER: I THANK THE 415 00:13:11,001 --> 00:13:14,000 GENTLEWOMAN'S TIME HAS EXPIRED 416 00:13:14,001 --> 00:13:16,000 FOR ENCAGING -- I 417 00:13:16,001 --> 00:13:17,000 GENTLEWOMAN FOR GAGING IN 418 00:13:17,001 --> 00:13:19,000 THIS COLLOQUY. 419 00:13:19,001 --> 00:13:21,000 SHE HAS BEEN AT THE FOREFRONT 420 00:13:21,001 --> 00:13:23,000 BY THE BUREAU OF RECLAMATION 421 00:13:23,001 --> 00:13:24,000 AND AN IMPORTANT SOURCE THAT 422 00:13:24,001 --> 00:13:25,000 NEW WATER IN CALIFORNIA AND 423 00:13:25,001 --> 00:13:27,000 THROUGHOUT THE WEST AND 424 00:13:27,001 --> 00:13:28,000 SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES. 425 00:13:28,001 --> 00:13:29,000 I YIELD BACK THE BANCE OF MY 426 00:13:29,001 --> 00:13:31,000 TIME. 427 00:13:31,001 --> 00:13:33,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 428 00:13:33,001 --> 00:13:34,000 GENTLEMAN RESERVES? 429 00:13:34,001 --> 00:13:35,000 MR. MILLER: I RESERVE. 430 00:13:35,001 --> 00:13:36,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 431 00:13:36,001 --> 00:13:38,000 GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE BALANCE 432 00:13:38,001 --> 00:13:39,000 OF HIS TIME. 433 00:13:39,001 --> 00:13:40,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM WASHINGTON 434 00:13:40,001 --> 00:13:41,000 IS RECOGNIZED. 435 00:13:41,001 --> 00:13:43,000 MR. HASTINGS: THANK YOU, MR. 436 00:13:43,001 --> 00:13:44,000 SPEAKER. 437 00:13:44,001 --> 00:13:45,000 MR. SPEAKER, I'M PLEASED TO 438 00:13:45,001 --> 00:13:46,000 YIELD TWO MINUTES TO THE 439 00:13:46,001 --> 00:13:47,000 GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA, 440 00:13:47,001 --> 00:13:49,000 FORMER MEMBER OF THE NATURAL 441 00:13:49,001 --> 00:13:50,000 RESOURCES COMMITTEE, MR. 442 00:13:50,001 --> 00:13:51,000 CALVERT. 443 00:13:51,001 --> 00:13:52,000 MR. CALVERT: UNDER NO 444 00:13:52,001 --> 00:13:54,000 CIRCUMSTANCES THE LEGISLATION 445 00:13:54,001 --> 00:13:55,000 BEFORE US WOULD BE APPROVED 446 00:13:55,001 --> 00:13:56,000 WITHOUT MUCH ATTENTION OR 447 00:13:56,001 --> 00:13:57,000 CONTROVERSY. 448 00:13:57,001 --> 00:13:59,000 THE BILL SIMPLY AUTHORIZES 449 00:13:59,001 --> 00:14:00,000 WATER RECYCLING PROJECTS WHICH 450 00:14:00,001 --> 00:14:02,000 I STRONGLY SUPPORT. 451 00:14:02,001 --> 00:14:03,000 HOWEVER, WE ARE NOT LIVING 452 00:14:03,001 --> 00:14:04,000 UNDER NORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES. 453 00:14:04,001 --> 00:14:05,000 WE'RE LIVING ITHE MIDST OF A 454 00:14:05,001 --> 00:14:06,000 CRISIS. 455 00:14:06,001 --> 00:14:08,000 THE ONGOING WATER CRISIS IN 456 00:14:08,001 --> 00:14:09,000 CALIFORNIA HAS CREATED AN 457 00:14:09,001 --> 00:14:11,000 ECONOMIC DOWNTURN UP AND DOWN 458 00:14:11,001 --> 00:14:13,000 THE STATE. STATEWIDE, THE UNEMPLOYMENT 459 00:14:13,001 --> 00:14:14,000 RATE HAS RISEN TO MORE THAN 460 00:14:14,001 --> 00:14:16,000 12%. 461 00:14:16,001 --> 00:14:18,000 IN THE CENTRAL VALLEY, REGIONAL UNEMPLOYMENT HAS REACHED 20% 462 00:14:18,001 --> 00:14:19,000 WITH SOME COMMUNITIES 463 00:14:19,001 --> 00:14:20,000 UNEMPLOMENT NOW OVER 40%. 464 00:14:20,001 --> 00:14:22,000 CALIFORNIA'S WATER CRISIS IS 465 00:14:22,001 --> 00:14:23,000 THE RESULT OF DROUGHT 466 00:14:23,001 --> 00:14:24,000 CONDITIONS ON TOP OF A 467 00:14:24,001 --> 00:14:25,000 FEDERALLY IMPOSED PUMPING 468 00:14:25,001 --> 00:14:28,000 RESTRICTION THAT'S BEEN PLACED 469 00:14:28,001 --> 00:14:29,000 ON OUR STATE'S CRITICAL WATER 470 00:14:29,001 --> 00:14:31,000 INFRASTRUCTURE. 471 00:14:31,001 --> 00:14:33,000 WHILE IT IS HURTING CALIFORNIA'S ECONOMY, THERE IS 472 00:14:33,001 --> 00:14:34,000 NO CLEAR EVIDENCE THAT THE 473 00:14:34,001 --> 00:14:35,000 ENDANGERED SPECIES ARE ACTUALLY 474 00:14:35,001 --> 00:14:37,000 BENEFITING FROM THE MEASURES 475 00:14:37,001 --> 00:14:38,000 INTENDED TO PROTECT THEM. 476 00:14:38,001 --> 00:14:40,000 THE FACT REMAINS THAT FLAWS AND 477 00:14:40,001 --> 00:14:42,000 SHORTCOMINGS OF THE ENDANGERED 478 00:14:42,001 --> 00:14:46,000 SPECIES ACT HAS TIED THE HANDS 479 00:14:46,001 --> 00:14:48,000 OF JUDGES CREATING A MAN-MADE 480 00:14:48,001 --> 00:14:49,000 DROUGHT THAT'S CREE -- 481 00:14:49,001 --> 00:14:51,000 THROUGHOUT CALIFORNIA. 482 00:14:51,001 --> 00:14:53,000 SO WHAT IS THE MAJORITY DOING 483 00:14:53,001 --> 00:14:54,000 TO THE INEFFICIENCIES OF THE 484 00:14:54,001 --> 00:14:55,000 ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT? 485 00:14:55,001 --> 00:14:57,000 THE ANSWER IS ABSOLUTELY 486 00:14:57,001 --> 00:14:58,000 NOTHING. 487 00:14:58,001 --> 00:14:59,000 THE REALITY IS TH 488 00:14:59,001 --> 00:15:01,000 OF THE HOUSE IS TOO AFRAID TO 489 00:15:01,001 --> 00:15:02,000 ALLOW AN OPEN AND FREE DEBATE 490 00:15:02,001 --> 00:15:03,000 ON THESE POLICIES BECAUSE THEY 491 00:15:03,001 --> 00:15:05,000 KNOW IF REASONABLE PEOPLE ARE 492 00:15:05,001 --> 00:15:07,000 GIVEN A CHANCE THEY WOULD OVERWHELMINGLY REJECT THEIR 493 00:15:07,001 --> 00:15:08,000 POLICIES AIMED TO PROTECT FISH 494 00:15:08,001 --> 00:15:10,000 AND SUPPORT EFFORTS TO GIVE 495 00:15:10,001 --> 00:15:12,000 WATER TO PEOPLE WHO ARE 496 00:15:12,001 --> 00:15:13,000 STRUGGLING JUST TO SURVIVE. 497 00:15:13,001 --> 00:15:15,000 THERE ARE A NUMBER OF BILLS 498 00:15:15,001 --> 00:15:16,000 SPONSORED BY MEMBERS IN THE 499 00:15:16,001 --> 00:15:17,000 MINORITY THAT WOULD RESTORE 500 00:15:17,001 --> 00:15:19,000 SOME COMMON SENSE TO OUR WATER 501 00:15:19,001 --> 00:15:20,000 AND ENVIRONMENTAL POY CIS. 502 00:15:20,001 --> 00:15:21,000 PERHAPS THE DEMOCRATIC 503 00:15:21,001 --> 00:15:24,000 LEADERSHIP WOULD ALLOW THESE 504 00:15:24,001 --> 00:15:25,000 BILLS TO COME TO T 505 00:15:25,001 --> 00:15:27,000 LEGISLATION LIKE THIS WOULD BE 506 00:15:27,001 --> 00:15:30,000 APPROVED WITHOUT MUCH ATTENTION 507 00:15:30,001 --> 00:15:33,000 OR MUCH CONTROVERSY. 508 00:15:33,001 --> 00:15:34,000 WITH THAT I YIELD. 509 00:15:34,001 --> 00:15:36,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 510 00:15:36,001 --> 00:15:38,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS. 511 00:15:38,001 --> 00:15:39,000 THE GENTL 512 00:15:39,001 --> 00:15:41,000 IS RECOGNIZED. 513 00:15:41,001 --> 00:15:42,000 MR. MILLER: I YIELD TO THE 514 00:15:42,001 --> 00:15:46,000 GENTLEMAN FROM OREGON, MR. 515 00:15:46,001 --> 00:15:47,000 BLUMENAUER. 516 00:15:47,001 --> 00:15:48,000 MR. BLUMENAUER: THANK YOU, MR. 517 00:15:48,001 --> 00:15:50,000 SPEAKER. 518 00:15:50,001 --> 00:15:51,000 I LISTEN TO MY FRIEND FROM 519 00:15:51,001 --> 00:15:52,000 CALIFORNIA SAY IF WE JUST ALLOW 520 00:15:52,001 --> 00:15:54,000 SOME OF THESE PROPOSALS TO COME 521 00:15:54,001 --> 00:15:57,000 TO THE FLOOR THEY WOULD BE 522 00:15:57,001 --> 00:15:58,000 APPROVED WITHOUT ANY 523 00:15:58,001 --> 00:16:00,000 CONTROVERSY. 524 00:16:00,001 --> 00:16:01,000 I BEG TO DIFFER. 525 00:16:01,001 --> 00:16:04,000 SUSS SPENDING THE ENDANGERED 526 00:16:04,001 --> 00:16:05,000 SPECIE 527 00:16:05,001 --> 00:16:08,000 BUYOUTS, DEALING WITH ISSUES 528 00:16:08,001 --> 00:16:10,000 THAT HAVE BEEN IN THE 529 00:16:10,001 --> 00:16:13,000 YEARS TO TRY AND BALANCE THE 530 00:16:13,001 --> 00:16:14,000 EQUITIES WOULD BE NOTICED. 531 00:16:14,001 --> 00:16:15,000 IT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WHY THE 532 00:16:15,001 --> 00:16:18,000 REPUBLICANS WHEN THEY 533 00:16:18,001 --> 00:16:19,000 CONTROLLED EVERYTHING FOR SIX 534 00:16:19,001 --> 00:16:22,000 YEARS DIDN'T MOVE ANHING 535 00:16:22,001 --> 00:16:25,000 RE 536 00:16:25,001 --> 00:16:27,000 THE AMERICAN PUBLIC, NATIVE 537 00:16:27,001 --> 00:16:29,000 AMERICANS, HUNTERS AND 538 00:16:29,001 --> 00:16:33,000 FISHERMEN, THE FISHERIES 539 00:16:33,001 --> 00:16:34,000 INDUSTRY, THEY RELY ON SOME 540 00:16:34,001 --> 00:16:37,000 SEMBLANCE OF REALITY WHEN WE 541 00:16:37,001 --> 00:16:39,000 ARE DEALING WITH WATER POLICY. 542 00:16:39,001 --> 00:16:40,000 I COMMEND THE GENTLEMAN FOR 543 00:16:40,001 --> 00:16:42,000 BRINGING FORWARD SOMETHING TH 544 00:16:42,001 --> 00:16:44,000 IS A CONSTRUCTED SOLUTION THAT 545 00:16:44,001 --> 00:16:45,000 CAN 546 00:16:45,001 --> 00:16:47,000 TIED UP IN COURT FOR YEARS. 547 00:16:47,001 --> 00:16:48,000 THAT'S NOT GOING TO PUT PEOPLE 548 00:16:48,001 --> 00:16:49,000 OUT OF WORK. 549 00:16:49,001 --> 00:16:51,000 IN FACT, GOING TO CREATE JOBS. 550 00:16:51,001 --> 00:16:53,000 'S GOING TO CREATE WATER. 551 00:16:53,001 --> 00:16:54,000 IT'S GOING TO REDUCE THE 552 00:16:54,001 --> 00:16:56,000 PRESSURE. 553 00:16:56,001 --> 00:16:58,000 INSTEAD, WE ARE HEARING OUR 554 00:16:58,001 --> 00:17:00,000 FRIENDS FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF 555 00:17:00,001 --> 00:17:03,000 THE AISLE IGNORE THE VERY REAL 556 00:17:03,001 --> 00:17:04,000 PROBLEMS THAT WE ARE FACING 557 00:17:04,001 --> 00:17:06,000 TODAY. 558 00:17:06,001 --> 00:17:08,000 THIS IS NOT A MAN MADE 559 00:17:08,001 --> 00:17:10,000 GOVERNMENT ENFORCED DROUGHT. 560 00:17:10,001 --> 00:17:14,000 THE WATER ISN'T THERE. 561 00:17:14,001 --> 00:17:15,000 AND TO OVERTURN MINIMAL 562 00:17:15,001 --> 00:17:17,000 PROTECTIONS FOR THE 563 00:17:17,001 --> 00:17:19,000 ENVIRONMENT, FOR THE FISHERSIES 564 00:17:19,001 --> 00:17:22,000 -- FISHERIES IN THE PACIFIC, 565 00:17:22,001 --> 00:17:24,000 FOR THE PEOPLE AT THE END OF 566 00:17:24,001 --> 00:17:26,000 THAT'S GOING TO RESTORE WATER THAT ISN'T THERE. 567 00:17:26,001 --> 00:17:28,000 IT'S NOT GOING TO HELP THE 568 00:17:28,001 --> 00:17:33,000 CALIFNIA THAT'S TIED IN 569 00:17:33,001 --> 00:17:34,000 KNOTS, THAT ITS L 570 00:17:34,001 --> 00:17:35,000 CAN'T DEAL WITH THE MANAGEMENT 571 00:17:35,001 --> 00:17:36,000 OF THE GROUNDWATER. 572 00:17:36,001 --> 00:17:38,000 WE HAVE A CRIS IN THIS 573 00:17:38,001 --> 00:17:40,000 COUNTRY THAT IS MAN MADE AND 574 00:17:40,001 --> 00:17:42,000 GOVERNMENT CREATED, AND THAT IS 575 00:17:42,001 --> 00:17:43,000 WE HAVEN'T BEEN SERIOUS ABOUT 576 00:17:43,001 --> 00:17:44,000 THE MAN 577 00:17:44,001 --> 00:17:47,000 RESOURCES. 578 00:17:47,001 --> 00:17:48,000 THIS IS GOING TO GET WORSE 579 00:17:48,001 --> 00:17:50,000 BECAUSE OF CLIMATE CHANGE, 580 00:17:50,001 --> 00:17:51,000 GLOBAL WARMING AND EXTREME 581 00:17:51,001 --> 00:17:52,000 WEATHER EVENTS. 582 00:17:52,001 --> 00:17:55,000 WE ARE GOING TO BE FACING 583 00:17:55,001 --> 00:17:59,000 THINGS LIKE THIS IN THE PACIFIC 584 00:17:59,001 --> 00:18:00,000 NORTHWEST WITH DISAPPEARING 585 00:18:00,001 --> 00:18:02,000 SNOW PACK, MORE STRAIN ON 586 00:18:02,001 --> 00:18:04,000 RESERVOIRS, MORE CONFLICT 587 00:18:04,001 --> 00:18:06,000 BETWEEN CITIES AND TOWNS AND 588 00:18:06,001 --> 00:18:07,000 RURAL AREAS, BETWEEN WILDLIFE 589 00:18:07,001 --> 00:18:09,000 AND NATIVE AMERICANS. 590 00:18:09,001 --> 00:18:10,000 WE GOT TO GET SERIOUS. 591 00:18:10,001 --> 00:18:12,000 WE HAVE TO GET SERIOUS WITH 592 00:18:12,001 --> 00:18:13,000 LEGISLATION LIKE THIS AND BEING 593 00:18:13,001 --> 00:18:16,000 REALISTIC ABOUT WORKING 594 00:18:16,001 --> 00:18:17,000 TOGETHER TO CREATE -- TO CREAT 595 00:18:17,001 --> 00:18:20,000 THE -- A FRAMEWORK FOR DEALING 596 00:18:20,001 --> 00:18:21,000 WITH WATER POLICY. 597 00:18:21,001 --> 00:18:22,000 LET'S ROLL UP OUR SLEEVES AND 598 00:18:22,001 --> 00:18:24,000 DO THAT TOGETHER. 599 00:18:24,001 --> 00:18:25,000 IN THE MEANTIME, LET'S NOT 600 00:18:25,001 --> 00:18:28,000 DEMAGOGUE IMPORTANT LEGISLATION 601 00:18:28,001 --> 00:18:30,000 THAT WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOR 602 00:18:30,001 --> 00:18:33,000 WATER IN CALIFORNIA NOW, 603 00:18:33,001 --> 00:18:34,000 PUTTING P 604 00:18:34,001 --> 00:18:36,000 MAYBES, JUST MAYBE STARTING AN 605 00:18:36,001 --> 00:18:38,000 HONEST CONVERSATION ABOUT HOW 606 00:18:38,001 --> 00:18:40,000 WE'RE GOING TO DEAL WITH A 607 00:18:40,001 --> 00:18:42,000 NATIONWIDE WATER CRIS. 608 00:18:42,001 --> 00:18:44,000 THANK YOU, A 609 00:18:44,001 --> 00:18:45,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 610 00:18:45,001 --> 00:18:46,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 611 00:18:46,001 --> 00:18:47,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 612 00:18:47,001 --> 00:18:49,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA 613 00:18:49,001 --> 00:18:50,000 RESERVES. 614 00:18:50,001 --> 00:18:51,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM WASHINGTON 615 00:18:51,001 --> 00:18:52,000 IS RECOGNIZED. 616 00:18:52,001 --> 00:18:54,000 MR. HASTINGS: THANK YOU, MR. 617 00:18:54,001 --> 00:18:55,000 S 618 00:18:55,001 --> 00:18:56,000 MR. SPEAKER, I'M PLEASED TO 619 00:18:56,001 --> 00:18:59,000 YIELD FIVE MINUTES TO THE 620 00:18:59,001 --> 00:19:00,000 RANKING REPUBLICAN ON THE WATER 621 00:19:00,001 --> 00:19:02,000 AND POWER SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE 622 00:19:02,001 --> 00:19:03,000 NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE, 623 00:19:03,001 --> 00:19:04,000 MR. MCCLINTOCK. 624 00:19:04,001 --> 00:19:05,000 MR. MCCLINTOCK: I THANK THE 625 00:19:05,001 --> 00:19:07,000 GENTLEMAN FOR YIELDING. 626 00:19:07,001 --> 00:19:08,000 MR. SPEAKER, THOSE WHO BLAME 627 00:19:08,001 --> 00:19:09,000 THE DROUGHT FOR OUR PROBLEMS 628 00:19:09,001 --> 00:19:11,000 IGNORE THE FACT THAT THIS IS A 629 00:19:11,001 --> 00:19:12,000 VERY MILD DROUGHT BY HISTORICAL 630 00:19:12,001 --> 00:19:13,000 STANDARDS. 631 00:19:13,001 --> 00:19:15,000 DURING MUCH MORE SEVERE 632 00:19:15,001 --> 00:19:17,000 DROUGHTS THAN THE ONE WE'RE 633 00:19:17,001 --> 00:19:18,000 CURRENTLY EXPERIENCING, FAR 634 00:19:18,001 --> 00:19:19,000 MORE WATER FLOWED TO THE 635 00:19:19,001 --> 00:19:20,000 CENTRAL VALLEY. 636 00:19:20,001 --> 00:19:22,000 I WONDER IF THE PROPONENTS 637 00:19:22,001 --> 00:19:24,000 WOULD DENY THAT 200 BILLION 638 00:19:24,001 --> 00:19:26,000 GALLONS OF WATER HAS BEEN 639 00:19:26,001 --> 00:19:29,000 DIVERTED FROM THE CETRAL 640 00:19:29,001 --> 00:19:32,000 VALLEY BY THESE REGULATIONS. 641 00:19:32,001 --> 00:19:33,000 IT'S MORLEY -- MORALLY 642 00:19:33,001 --> 00:19:35,000 UNCONSCIONABLE THAT WATER 643 00:19:35,001 --> 00:19:36,000 RECYCLING BILLS TO BENEFIT THE 644 00:19:36,001 --> 00:19:38,000 PAMPERED AND PRIVILEGED 645 00:19:38,001 --> 00:19:39,000 COMMUNITIES OF SAN FRANCISCO 646 00:19:39,001 --> 00:19:41,000 CAN SAIL THROUGH THE HOUSE 647 00:19:41,001 --> 00:19:43,000 WHILE 40,000 FAMILIES HAVE LOST 648 00:19:43,001 --> 00:19:44,000 THEIR JOBS IN THE 649 00:19:44,001 --> 00:19:46,000 VALLEY BECAUSE THIS GOVERNMENT 650 00:19:46,001 --> 00:19:48,000 HAS DIVERTED 200 BILLION 651 00:19:48,001 --> 00:19:51,000 GAONS OF WATER IN ORDER TO 652 00:19:51,001 --> 00:19:53,000 IULGE ONE OF THE 653 00:19:53,001 --> 00:19:54,000 ENVIRONMENTAL LEFT'S CROSSES -- 654 00:19:54,001 --> 00:19:56,000 CAUSES. 655 00:19:56,001 --> 00:19:57,000 I'D LIKE TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE 656 00:19:57,001 --> 00:19:59,000 BAS ECONOMICS OF THESE 657 00:19:59,001 --> 00:20:02,000 RECYCLING BILLS. 658 00:20:02,001 --> 00:20:03,000 YOU KNOW, A GENERATION AGO THE 659 00:20:03,001 --> 00:20:06,000 PRINCIPAL OBJECTIVE OF OUR 660 00:20:06,001 --> 00:20:08,000 WATER POLICY WAS TO CREATE 661 00:20:08,001 --> 00:20:10,000 ABUNDANCE. 662 00:20:10,001 --> 00:20:12,000 THAT WAS WHERE THEY HAD A 663 00:20:12,001 --> 00:20:13,000 CORNUCOPIA OF PLENTIFUL WATER 664 00:20:13,001 --> 00:20:15,000 ON A SCALE TO VAST THAT MANY 665 00:20:15,001 --> 00:20:16,000 COMMUNITIES DIDN'T BOTHER TO 666 00:20:16,001 --> 00:20:17,000 METER IT. 667 00:20:17,001 --> 00:20:21,000 THAT CLEAN, CHEAP AND ABUNDANT 668 00:20:21,001 --> 00:20:23,000 WATER ALSO MADE AMERICA THE 669 00:20:23,001 --> 00:20:25,000 BREADBASKET OF THE WORLD AND THE CENTRAL VALLEY OF 670 00:20:25,001 --> 00:20:26,000 CALIFORNIA THE BREADBASKET OF 671 00:20:26,001 --> 00:20:28,000 THAT STATE. 672 00:20:28,001 --> 00:20:31,000 BUT THE MAJORITY PARTY HAS ABANDONED THAT POLICY AND 673 00:20:31,001 --> 00:20:32,000 REPLACED IT WITH A VERY 674 00:20:32,001 --> 00:20:34,000 DIFFERENT PHILOSOPHY, THAT THE 675 00:20:34,001 --> 00:20:37,000 GOVERNMENT PRINCIPLE FOCUS 676 00:20:37,001 --> 00:20:38,000 SHOULD NOT BE TO PRODUCE 677 00:20:38,001 --> 00:20:40,000 ABUNDANT WATER BUT RATHER TO 678 00:20:40,001 --> 00:20:43,000 RECYCLE WATER SHORTAGES THAT 679 00:20:43,001 --> 00:20:45,000 GOVERNMENT HAS CAUSED BY 680 00:20:45,001 --> 00:20:47,000 ABANDONING ABUNDANCE AS ITS 681 00:20:47,001 --> 00:20:49,000 PRIMARY OBJECTIVE. 682 00:20:49,001 --> 00:20:50,000 THE RESULT IS INCREASINGLY 683 00:20:50,001 --> 00:20:53,000 EXPENSIVE WATER. 684 00:20:53,001 --> 00:20:54,000 BY ITS OWN ADMISSION, THIS 685 00:20:54,001 --> 00:20:56,000 ADMINISTRATION NO LONGER 686 00:20:56,001 --> 00:20:58,000 ANALYZING THE COSTS AND 687 00:20:58,001 --> 00:20:59,000 BENEFITS OF PROJECTS IN THE 688 00:20:59,001 --> 00:21:02,000 BILL BEFORE US. 689 00:21:02,001 --> 00:21:05,000 ADMINISTRATION ADMITTED THAT IT 690 00:21:05,001 --> 00:21:08,000 FACES A $600 MILLION BACKLOG OF 691 00:21:08,001 --> 00:21:09,000 53 WATER RECYCLING PROJECTS 692 00:21:09,001 --> 00:21:13,000 LIKE THESE, AND STIL HASN'T 693 00:21:13,001 --> 00:21:16,000 BOTHERED TO PRIORITIZE THEM, 694 00:21:16,001 --> 00:21:18,000 LET ALONE HOW TO FUND THEM. 695 00:21:18,001 --> 00:21:20,000 THIS HAS A MATCH FOR SIX LOCAL 696 00:21:20,001 --> 00:21:21,000 WATER RECYCLING PROJECTS IN THE 697 00:21:21,001 --> 00:21:22,000 SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA. 698 00:21:22,001 --> 00:21:25,000 IT INCREASES THE MAXIMUM 699 00:21:25,001 --> 00:21:26,000 FEDERAL COST SHARE FOR TWO 700 00:21:26,001 --> 00:21:30,000 OTHERS 701 00:21:30,001 --> 00:21:33,000 ACCORDING TO THE SPONSORS IT 702 00:21:33,001 --> 00:21:34,000 WILL PRODUCE 2.6 BILLION 703 00:21:34,001 --> 00:21:37,000 GALLONS OF WATER. 704 00:21:37,001 --> 00:21:39,000 THAT COMES TO ABOUT 8,000 705 00:21:39,001 --> 00:21:40,000 ACRE-FEET. 706 00:21:40,001 --> 00:21:41,000 LET'S DO THE MATH HERE. 707 00:21:41,001 --> 00:21:45,000 $38 MILLION FOR 8,000 708 00:21:45,001 --> 00:21:47,000 THAT COMES TO $4,500 PER 709 00:21:47,001 --> 00:21:48,000 ACRE-FOOT. 710 00:21:48,001 --> 00:21:50,000 THAT'S JUST THE PERIL SHARE. 711 00:21:50,001 --> 00:21:51,000 THE TOTAL COST OF THESE 712 00:21:51,001 --> 00:21:52,000 PROJECTS IS FOUR TIMES THAT 713 00:21:52,001 --> 00:21:54,000 AMOUNT. 714 00:21:54,001 --> 00:21:55,000 MORE THAN $18,000 PER 715 00:21:55,001 --> 00:21:56,000 ACRE-FOOT. 716 00:21:56,001 --> 00:21:59,000 NOW, LET'S COMPARE THAT TO THE 717 00:21:59,001 --> 00:22:01,000 CAPITAL COST OF THE NEARBY DAM. 718 00:22:01,001 --> 00:22:02,000 THAT WAS ROUGHLY $60 MILLION 719 00:22:02,001 --> 00:22:04,000 IN 1968. 720 00:22:04,001 --> 00:22:06,000 YOU DO THE INFLATION ADJUSTMENT. 721 00:22:06,001 --> 00:22:07,000 IT'S $3.5 BILLION IN TODAY'S 722 00:22:07,001 --> 00:22:09,000 MONEY. 723 00:22:09,001 --> 00:22:11,000 THAT DAM PRODUCES 3 1/2 MILLION 724 00:22:11,001 --> 00:22:13,000 ACRE-FEET OF WATER. 725 00:22:13,001 --> 00:22:15,000 SO, IN OTHER WORDS, THE MODERN 726 00:22:15,001 --> 00:22:17,000 DAY INFLATION ADJUSTED TO THE 727 00:22:17,001 --> 00:22:19,000 COST OF THE DAM, INCLUDING THE 728 00:22:19,001 --> 00:22:20,000 MASSIVE POWER PLANT, COMES TO 729 00:22:20,001 --> 00:22:22,000 ABOUT $1,000 PER ACRE-FOOT. 730 00:22:22,001 --> 00:22:25,000 THE PROJECTS IN THIS BILL COSTS 731 00:22:25,001 --> 00:22:28,000 MORE THAN $18,000 PER ACRE-FOOT 732 00:22:28,001 --> 00:22:31,000 OVERALL, INCLUDING $4,500 P 733 00:22:31,001 --> 00:22:33,000 NATIONAL TREASURY, WHICH IN 734 00:22:33,001 --> 00:22:34,000 CASE YOU HAVEN'T NOTICED, IS 735 00:22:34,001 --> 00:22:36,000 EMPTY. 736 00:22:36,001 --> 00:22:37,000 I RAISED THESE ISSUES IN 737 00:22:37,001 --> 00:22:39,000 COMMITTEE. 738 00:22:39,001 --> 00:22:40,000 I DID NOT ACTIVELY OPPOS THE 739 00:22:40,001 --> 00:22:42,000 BILL BECAUSE THE HOUSE HAD YET 740 00:22:42,001 --> 00:22:43,000 TO SET FISCAL STANDARDSOR 741 00:22:43,001 --> 00:22:44,000 RECYCLING MEASURES LIKE THIS 742 00:22:44,001 --> 00:22:45,000 ONE. 743 00:22:45,001 --> 00:22:47,000 IT NEEDS TO. 744 00:22:47,001 --> 00:22:48,000 BUT I ALSO MUST AGREE WITH 745 00:22:48,001 --> 00:22:49,000 RANKING MEMBER HASTINGS AND 746 00:22:49,001 --> 00:22:51,000 CONGRESSMAN NUNES AND OTHERS 747 00:22:51,001 --> 00:22:54,000 THAT IT'S A TRAVESTY THAT WE 748 00:22:54,001 --> 00:22:55,000 SHOULD VOTE FOR 2.5 BILLION 749 00:22:55,001 --> 00:22:59,000 MORE GALLONS OF WATER FOR SAN 750 00:22:59,001 --> 00:23:00,000 FRANCISCO WHILE TAKING AWAY 200 751 00:23:00,001 --> 00:23:02,000 BILLION GALLONS OF WATER FROM 752 00:23:02,001 --> 00:23:04,000 THE CENTRAL VALLEY OF 753 00:23:04,001 --> 00:23:05,000 CALIFORNIA. 754 00:23:05,001 --> 00:23:07,000 AT THE SAME TIME, THE CENTRAL 755 00:23:07,001 --> 00:23:09,000 VALLEY TAXPAYERS ARE STRUGGLI 756 00:23:09,001 --> 00:23:11,000 WITH UP TO 40% UNEMPLOYMENT 757 00:23:11,001 --> 00:23:12,000 RATE AT THE SAME TIME ALL 758 00:23:12,001 --> 00:23:14,000 TAXPAYERS ARE PAYING HIGHER 759 00:23:14,001 --> 00:23:16,000 GROCERY BILLS AS A RESULT OF 760 00:23:16,001 --> 00:23:17,000 THESE HEARTLESS WATER 761 00:23:17,001 --> 00:23:18,000 DIVERSIONS. 762 00:23:18,001 --> 00:23:21,000 T 763 00:23:21,001 --> 00:23:23,000 ASKED TO PAY A SUPERPREMIUM 764 00:23:23,001 --> 00:23:26,000 SUBSIDY TO BAY AREA WATER USERS 765 00:23:26,001 --> 00:23:27,000 WHOSE REPRESENTATIVES HAVE 766 00:23:27,001 --> 00:23:30,000 ENDORSED THIS. 767 00:23:30,001 --> 00:23:35,000 AND ADD INASSAULT TO -- INSULT 768 00:23:35,001 --> 00:23:40,000 TO INJURY, MR. NUNES CAN'T 769 00:23:40,001 --> 00:23:42,000 SUBMIT A AMENDMENT -- AN 770 00:23:42,001 --> 00:23:43,000 AMENDMENT. 771 00:23:43,001 --> 00:23:44,000 SO FOR ALL 772 00:23:44,001 --> 00:23:45,000 ASK MY COLLEAGUES TO OPPOSE THE 773 00:23:45,001 --> 00:23:47,000 BILL. 774 00:23:47,001 --> 00:23:50,000 NOT ONLY CAN WE DO THIS BETTER, 775 00:23:50,001 --> 00:23:51,000 WE CANNOT BE DO ANY WORSE. 776 00:23:51,001 --> 00:23:52,000 I YIELD BACK THE BALANCE. 777 00:23:52,001 --> 00:23:53,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 778 00:23:53,001 --> 00:23:55,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 779 00:23:55,001 --> 00:23:56,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 780 00:23:56,001 --> 00:23:57,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM WASHINGTON 781 00:23:57,001 --> 00:23:58,000 RESERVES. 782 00:23:58,001 --> 00:24:00,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA 783 00:24:00,001 --> 00:24:01,000 IS RECOGNIZED. 784 00:24:01,001 --> 00:24:02,000 MR. MILLER: I YIELD TWO MINUTES 785 00:24:02,001 --> 00:24:03,000 TO THE GENTLEMAN FROM 786 00:24:03,001 --> 00:24:05,000 CALIFORNIA, MR. THOMPSON. 787 00:24:05,001 --> 00:24:06,000 MR. THOMPSON: I THANK THE 788 00:24:06,001 --> 00:24:07,000 GENTLEMAN FOR YIELDING. 789 00:24:07,001 --> 00:24:08,000 MR. SPEAKER AND MEMBERS, THIS 790 00:24:08,001 --> 00:24:09,000 BILL IS ABOUT FREEING UP 2 1/2 791 00:24:09,001 --> 00:24:12,000 MILLION GALLONS OF WATER PER 792 00:24:12,001 --> 00:24:13,000 AY THROUGH RECYCLING. 793 00:24:13,001 --> 00:24:15,000 WATER THAT WOULD BE ABLE TO BE 794 00:24:15,001 --> 00:24:18,000 USED THROUGHOUT THE AFFECTED AREAS IN CALIFORNIA. 795 00:24:18,001 --> 00:24:19,000 THIS REDUCES WATER DEMAND FOR 796 00:24:19,001 --> 00:24:25,000 OUR STATE. 797 00:24:25,001 --> 00:24:27,000 AGAIN, 2. 798 00:24:27,001 --> 00:24:29,000 DAY. I WANT TO SPEAK TO SOMETHING 799 00:24:29,001 --> 00:24:31,000 THAT WAS SAID EARLIER AND THAT 800 00:24:31,001 --> 00:24:34,000 IS THAT THE SALMON FISHERMEN IN 801 00:24:34,001 --> 00:24:35,000 CALIFORNIA, THE SALMON FISH AND 802 00:24:35,001 --> 00:24:37,000 FAMILIES WERE NOT HURT AND THE 803 00:24:37,001 --> 00:24:39,000 CLAIMS THAT THEY WERE WERE 804 00:24:39,001 --> 00:24:40,000 BOGUS. 805 00:24:40,001 --> 00:24:42,000 MR. SPEAKER AND MEMBERS, THE -- 806 00:24:42,001 --> 00:24:44,000 SALMON FISHING -- FISHERMEN AND 807 00:24:44,001 --> 00:24:45,000 THEIR FAMILIES IN MY DISTRICT 808 00:24:45,001 --> 00:24:47,000 ON THE NORTH COAST OF 809 00:24:47,001 --> 00:24:48,000 CALIFORNIA HAVE BEEN OUT OF 810 00:24:48,001 --> 00:24:49,000 WORK FOR THREE OF THE PAST FOUR 811 00:24:49,001 --> 00:24:52,000 YEARS. 812 00:24:52,001 --> 00:24:54,000 MOSTLY BECAUSE OF ILL LEGAL, 813 00:24:54,001 --> 00:24:56,000 BIOLOGICAL OPINIONS ISSUED BY 814 00:24:56,001 --> 00:25:00,000 THE PAST ADMINISTRATION. 815 00:25:00,001 --> 00:25:02,000 - ILLEGAL, BIOLOGICAL OPINIONS 816 00:25:02,001 --> 00:25:04,000 ISUED BY THE PAST 817 00:25:04,001 --> 00:25:05,000 ADMINISTRATION. 818 00:25:05,001 --> 00:25:06,000 FARMERS SOUTH OF THE DELTA HAVE 819 00:25:06,001 --> 00:25:07,000 BEEN RECEIVING DISASTER FUNDS 820 00:25:07,001 --> 00:25:09,000 FOR THEIR WATER SHORTAGES. 821 00:25:09,001 --> 00:25:11,000 $95 MILLION OVER THE COURSE OF 822 00:25:11,001 --> 00:25:16,000 THE LAST TWO YEARS. 823 00:25:16,001 --> 00:25:17,000 BUT BIOLOGICAL OPINIONS, THE 824 00:25:17,001 --> 00:25:21,000 ILLEGAL BIOLOGICAL OPINIONS I 825 00:25:21,001 --> 00:25:23,000 MENTIONED HELPED KILL SOME 800 826 00:25:23,001 --> 00:25:27,000 SPAWNING SALMON AND DEVASTATING 827 00:25:27,001 --> 00:25:28,000 D THE SALMON FISHING ALONG THE 828 00:25:28,001 --> 00:25:30,000 SACRAMENTO RIVER. 829 00:25:30,001 --> 00:25:33,000 THEY SAW THEIR SALMON 830 00:25:33,001 --> 00:25:36,000 POPULATIONS GO FROM 800,000 TO 831 00:25:36,001 --> 00:25:37,000 66,000 IN THREE SHORT YEARS. 832 00:25:37,001 --> 00:25:39,000 MR. SPEAKER AND MEMBERS, 833 00:25:39,001 --> 00:25:41,000 FISHING FAMILIES HAVE BEEN PUT 834 00:25:41,001 --> 00:25:44,000 OUT OF WORK IN MY DISTRICT AND 835 00:25:44,001 --> 00:25:45,000 UP THROUGH -- AND INTO OREGON. 836 00:25:45,001 --> 00:25:47,000 THEY'VE LOST THEIR HOMES. 837 00:25:47,001 --> 00:25:48,000 THEY'VE LOST THEIR SAVINGS AND 838 00:25:48,001 --> 00:25:51,000 THEY'VE LOST THEIR LIVELIHOODS. 839 00:25:51,001 --> 00:25:52,000 IT'S NOT BOGUS AND IT'S 840 00:25:52,001 --> 00:25:55,000 SHAMEFUL TO SUGGEST THAT IT IS. 841 00:25:55,001 --> 00:25:59,000 BUT THE HEART OF THE ISS 842 00:25:59,001 --> 00:26:01,000 THAT'S HERE TODAY, THE 843 00:26:01,001 --> 00:26:04,000 PROPONENTS OF THIS BILL FEEL 844 00:26:04,001 --> 00:26:05,000 COMFORTABLE AS CHOOSING ONE 845 00:26:05,001 --> 00:26:07,000 BUSINESS MORE SUPERIOR TO 846 00:26:07,001 --> 00:26:08,000 ANOTHER. 847 00:26:08,001 --> 00:26:10,000 THE OPPONENT'S 848 00:26:10,001 --> 00:26:12,000 ABOUT SOLUTIONS BUT RATHER 849 00:26:12,001 --> 00:26:14,000 ABOUT SUGGESTING -- CAN I GET 850 00:26:14,001 --> 00:26:16,000 - 851 00:26:16,001 --> 00:26:18,000 MR. MILLER: ANOTHER ONE. 852 00:26:18,001 --> 00:26:19,000 MR. THOMPSON: SUGGESTING THAT 853 00:26:19,001 --> 00:26:21,000 MORE HARDWORKING FARMERS ARE 854 00:26:21,001 --> 00:26:22,000 MORE HARD WORKING THAN 855 00:26:22,001 --> 00:26:24,000 FISHERMEN IS WRONG. 856 00:26:24,001 --> 00:26:25,000 THIS BILL WILL ULTIMATELY 857 00:26:25,001 --> 00:26:29,000 CONSERVE 2 1/2 MILLION GALLONS 858 00:26:29,001 --> 00:26:32,000 OF WATER PER DAY FOR DROUGHT-STRICKEN CALIFORNIA. 859 00:26:32,001 --> 00:26:33,000 THIS 860 00:26:33,001 --> 00:26:35,000 HELPS BRING FLEXIBILITY TO OUR 861 00:26:35,001 --> 00:26:36,000 SYSTEM. 862 00:26:36,001 --> 00:26:38,000 I WANT TO THANK MR. MILLER FOR 863 00:26:38,001 --> 00:26:40,000 HIS BILL AND HIS EFFORT TO 864 00:26:40,001 --> 00:26:42,000 ADDRESS THIS ISSUE AND PROVIDE 865 00:26:42,001 --> 00:26:43,000 MAXIMUM FLEXIBILITY. 866 00:26:43,001 --> 00:26:46,000 I WANT TO UR 867 00:26:46,001 --> 00:26:47,000 VOTE AGAINST THE MOTION TO 868 00:26:47,001 --> 00:26:49,000 RECOMMIT AND FOR THE UNDERLYING 869 00:26:49,001 --> 00:26:50,000 BILL. 870 00:26:50,001 --> 00:26:52,000 I YIELD BACK THE BALANCE OF MY TIME. 871 00:26:52,001 --> 00:26:54,000 THE 872 00:26:54,001 --> 00:26:55,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 873 00:26:55,001 --> 00:26:56,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 874 00:26:56,001 --> 00:26:57,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA 875 00:26:57,001 --> 00:26:58,000 RESERVES. 876 00:26:58,001 --> 00:27:00,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM WASHINGTON IS 877 00:27:00,001 --> 00:27:01,000 RECOGNIZED. 878 00:27:01,001 --> 00:27:02,000 M 879 00:27:02,001 --> 00:27:03,000 INQUIRE HOW MUCH TIME IS LEFT ON 880 00:27:03,001 --> 00:27:04,000 BOTH SIDES. 881 00:27:04,001 --> 00:27:06,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: YOU 882 00:27:06,001 --> 00:27:07,000 HAVE 17 1/2 MINUTES LEFT AND THE 883 00:27:07,001 --> 00:27:09,000 MAJORITY, 19 1/2 MINUTES. 884 00:27:09,001 --> 00:27:11,000 MR. HASTINGS: OK. MR. SPEAKER, AT THIS TIME I'M 885 00:27:11,001 --> 00:27:13,000 PLEASED TO YIELD THREE MINUTES 886 00:27:13,001 --> 00:27:15,000 TO THE GENTLEMAN FROM E 887 00:27:15,001 --> 00:27:16,000 OUTHERN SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, MR. 888 00:27:16,001 --> 00:27:17,000 MCCARTHY. 889 00:27:17,001 --> 00:27:19,000 MR. MCCARTHY: I THANK MY DEAR 890 00:27:19,001 --> 00:27:21,000 FRIEND. 891 00:27:21,001 --> 00:27:22,000 MR. SPEAKER, AS I LISTEN TO THIS 892 00:27:22,001 --> 00:27:25,000 DEBATE, MANY COLLEAGUES ON THE 893 00:27:25,001 --> 00:27:26,000 OTHER SIDE THAT HAPPEN TO BE IN 894 00:27:26,001 --> 00:27:29,000 MAJORITY. 895 00:27:29,001 --> 00:27:34,000 THEY NOT ONLY SHOW IT IN 896 00:27:34,001 --> 00:27:35,000 COMMITTEE 897 00:27:35,001 --> 00:27:40,000 BILLS COME TO THE FLOOR. 898 00:27:40,001 --> 00:27:41,000 THE IDEA THAT -- DOESN'T HA 899 00:27:41,001 --> 00:27:43,000 HERE. 900 00:27:43,001 --> 00:27:44,000 THEY GO TO THE RULES COMMITTEE 901 00:27:44,001 --> 00:27:46,000 AND DENY AN AMENDMENT TO EVEN 902 00:27:46,001 --> 00:27:47,000 COME FORWARD. 903 00:27:47,001 --> 00:27:49,000 THEY DO A COLLOQUY ON THE OTHER 904 00:27:49,001 --> 00:27:51,000 SIDE TO TALK ABOUT BILLS THAT 905 00:27:51,001 --> 00:27:53,000 HAVE BEEN BROUGHT UP. 906 00:27:53,001 --> 00:27:54,000 I'D LIKE TO SEE A COLLOQUY TO 907 00:27:54,001 --> 00:27:56,000 TALK ABOUT THE BILLS THAT HAVE 908 00:27:56,001 --> 00:27:59,000 BEEN DENIED. I 909 00:27:59,001 --> 00:28:00,000 VALLEY WHERE UNEMPLOYMENT IS 910 00:28:00,001 --> 00:28:02,000 DOUBLE-DIGITS 911 00:28:02,001 --> 00:28:05,000 SOME CITIES HAVE 40% 912 00:28:05,001 --> 00:28:07,000 UNEMPLOYMENT. 913 00:28:07,001 --> 00:28:08,000 BUT I DON'T HEAR A COLLOQUY FROM 914 00:28:08,001 --> 00:28:12,000 Y FRIENDS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF 915 00:28:12,001 --> 00:28:17,000 THE AISLE TO TALK ABOUT H.R. 916 00:28:17,001 --> 00:28:20,000 3105, TURN THE PUMPS ON ACT. 917 00:28:20,001 --> 00:28:24,000 THAT WE HAD 200 BILLION GALLONS 918 00:28:24,001 --> 00:28:28,000 A YEAR BEING DENIED TO THE 919 00:28:28,001 --> 00:28:30,000 THE PARTY IN POWER SHOWS WHERE 920 00:28:30,001 --> 00:28:35,000 THEIR DESIRE IS TO GO. 921 00:28:35,001 --> 00:28:36,000 TO DENY THE VALLEY'S ABILITY TO 922 00:28:36,001 --> 00:28:38,000 CREATE JOBS. 923 00:28:38,001 --> 00:28:41,000 I WANT TO REMIND MY FRIENDS ON 924 00:28:41,001 --> 00:28:45,000 THE OTHER SIDE OF THE AISLE WHEN 925 00:28:45,001 --> 00:28:51,000 WE HAD THE RULES DEBATE, A QUOTE 926 00:28:51,001 --> 00:28:54,000 HE ONCE SAID THE NATION WITH THE 927 00:28:54,001 --> 00:28:55,000 STRAIGHTEST SAIL DESTROYS IT 928 00:28:55,001 --> 00:28:56,000 SELF. 929 00:28:56,001 --> 00:29:00,000 THE PIPES ARE DRY, THE LAND IS 930 00:29:00,001 --> 00:29:03,000 NO LONGER ABLE TO PRODUCE. 931 00:29:03,001 --> 00:29:04,000 BUT IT DOES NOT HAVE 932 00:29:04,001 --> 00:29:07,000 THAT WAY. 933 00:29:07,001 --> 00:29:09,000 MANMADE DROUGHTS CAN CHANGE. 934 00:29:09,001 --> 00:29:10,000 AND WHAT THE DEBATE TODAY IS 935 00:29:10,001 --> 00:29:14,000 ABOUT AND WHAT THE PASSION YOU 936 00:29:14,001 --> 00:29:15,000 FEEL FROM THIS SIDE, THE NOT A 937 00:29:15,001 --> 00:29:19,000 PARTISAN PASSION. 938 00:29:19,001 --> 00:29:20,000 THIS IS A PASSION 939 00:29:20,001 --> 00:29:22,000 INDEPENDENCE, A PASSION OF 940 00:29:22,001 --> 00:29:25,000 DEMOCRATS AND A PASSION OF 941 00:29:25,001 --> 00:29:26,000 REPUBLICANS. 942 00:29:26,001 --> 00:29:30,000 THIS A -- I LISTENED TO A 943 00:29:30,001 --> 00:29:31,000 COLLEAGUE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF 944 00:29:31,001 --> 00:29:32,000 THE AISLE -- BRING THEM HERE. 945 00:29:32,001 --> 00:29:34,000 YOU HAVE THE POWER, YOU HAVE THE 946 00:29:34,001 --> 00:29:38,000 MAJORITY, DO NOT DENY THEM, DO 947 00:29:38,001 --> 00:29:39,000 NOT DENY THE AMENDMENT. 948 00:29:39,001 --> 00:29:40,000 LET THE PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER OF 949 00:29:40,001 --> 00:29:41,000 THE IDEA TO WIN AT THE END OF 950 00:29:41,001 --> 00:29:44,000 THE DAY. 951 00:29:44,001 --> 00:29:46,000 WHEN YOU TALK OF A BILL THAT 952 00:29:46,001 --> 00:29:50,000 PRODUCED 2.6 BILLION GALLON A 953 00:29:50,001 --> 00:29:52,000 YEAR BUT YOU DENY BILLS THAT 954 00:29:52,001 --> 00:29:55,000 DENY 200 BILLION GALLONS THIS 955 00:29:55,001 --> 00:29:58,000 YEAR FOR THE CENTRAL VALLEY, NO 956 00:29:58,001 --> 00:29:59,000 LONGER -- YOU TALK OF THE VALLEY 957 00:29:59,001 --> 00:30:02,000 BEING DRY. 958 00:30:02,001 --> 00:30:03,000 YOU LOOK AT THE RALLIES THAT 959 00:30:03,001 --> 00:30:06,000 HAVE BEEN CREATED AND YOU LOOK 960 00:30:06,001 --> 00:30:08,000 AT THE FACES, THEY'RE A MICROS 961 00:30:08,001 --> 00:30:11,000 COULD MUCH OF AMERICA. FROM EVERY WALK OF LIFE. 962 00:30:11,001 --> 00:30:13,000 AND THEY COME THERE WITH ONE 963 00:30:13,001 --> 00:30:15,000 SIGN, TURN THE PUMPS ON. 964 00:30:15,001 --> 00:30:17,000 AND THAT IS OUR MESSAGE TODAY. 965 00:30:17,001 --> 00:30:20,000 THAT IS OUR MESSAGE WITH TH 966 00:30:20,001 --> 00:30:21,000 BILL, THAT W 967 00:30:21,001 --> 00:30:23,000 MAKE THE DECISION TO GET THE 968 00:30:23,001 --> 00:30:25,000 WATER PUMPING AGA. 969 00:30:25,001 --> 00:30:26,000 I YIELD BACK -- I YIELD BACK 970 00:30:26,001 --> 00:30:28,000 BALANCE OF MY TIME. 971 00:30:28,001 --> 00:30:30,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 972 00:30:30,001 --> 00:30:31,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 973 00:30:31,001 --> 00:30:33,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM WASHINON 974 00:30:33,001 --> 00:30:34,000 RESERVES. 975 00:30:34,001 --> 00:30:35,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA IS 976 00:30:35,001 --> 00:30:36,000 RECOGNIZED. 977 00:30:36,001 --> 00:30:38,000 MR. MILLER: I YIELD THREE 978 00:30:38,001 --> 00:30:40,000 MINUTES TO THE GENTLEWOMAN FROM CALIFORNIA, MS. LOFGREN. 979 00:30:40,001 --> 00:30:41,000 MS. LOFGREN: THANK YOU, MR. 980 00:30:41,001 --> 00:30:43,000 SPEAKER. 981 00:30:43,001 --> 00:30:45,000 CALIFORNIA'S IN THE THIRD YEAR OF THE DROUGHT. 982 00:30:45,001 --> 00:30:46,000 THE SALMON FISHERS ARE IN THE 983 00:30:46,001 --> 00:30:48,000 THIRD YEAR OF NO SEASON. 984 00:30:48,001 --> 00:30:50,000 FARMERS ARE HURTING, FISHERMEN 985 00:30:50,001 --> 00:30:51,000 ARE HURNG, BUT THIS BILL 986 00:30:51,001 --> 00:30:54,000 ACTUALLY HELPS THAT PROBLEM. 987 00:30:54,001 --> 00:30:57,000 I COME FROM SILICON VALLEY WHERE 988 00:30:57,001 --> 00:30:58,000 HALF OF OUR WATER COMES FROM THE 989 00:30:58,001 --> 00:31:00,000 DELTA. 990 00:31:00,001 --> 00:31:02,000 I'VE HEARD THE NAME SAN FRANCISCO MENTIONED. 991 00:31:02,001 --> 00:31:03,000 THIS HE DON'T GET ANY OF THEIR 992 00:31:03,001 --> 00:31:05,000 WATER FROM THE DELTA AND THEY 993 00:31:05,001 --> 00:31:06,000 DON'T HAVE ANY PROJECTS IN THIS 994 00:31:06,001 --> 00:31:08,000 BILL. 995 00:31:08,001 --> 00:31:11,000 BUT SILICON VALLEY GETS HALF ITS 996 00:31:11,001 --> 00:31:14,000 WAT FROM THE DELTA. 997 00:31:14,001 --> 00:31:15,000 AND THE PROJECTS THAT LL FLOW 998 00:31:15,001 --> 00:31:18,000 TO SILICON VALLEY TO REUSE THE 999 00:31:18,001 --> 00:31:19,000 WATER WE HAVE FROM OUR 1000 00:31:19,001 --> 00:31:21,000 GROUNDWATER SOURCES ARE GOING TO 1001 00:31:21,001 --> 00:31:23,000 FRE UP WATER FOR THE DELTA. 1002 00:31:23,001 --> 00:31:25,000 IT WILL FREE UP WATER FOR THE 1003 00:31:25,001 --> 00:31:29,000 FARMERS AND 1004 00:31:29,001 --> 00:31:32,000 AND I COUNT THAT A GOOD THING. 1005 00:31:32,001 --> 00:31:34,000 WE CAN GET BOMB BASS TICK HERE, 1006 00:31:34,001 --> 00:31:36,000 ALL OF US, IT HURTS US WHEN OUR 1007 00:31:36,001 --> 00:31:39,000 CONSTITUENTS ARE HURT. 1008 00:31:39,001 --> 00:31:43,000 BUT IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT 1009 00:31:43,001 --> 00:31:45,000 THIS IS A SOLUTION, THIS IS A 1010 00:31:45,001 --> 00:31:46,000 SOLUTION. 1011 00:31:46,001 --> 00:31:47,000 SILICON VALLEY DOESN'T HAVE ANY 1012 00:31:47,001 --> 00:31:49,000 FARMERS AND IT DOESN'T REALLY 1013 00:31:49,001 --> 00:31:50,000 HAVE ANY COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN. 1014 00:31:50,001 --> 00:31:53,000 WE MAKE CHIPPING. 1015 00:31:53,001 --> 00:31:55,000 WE ALSO HAVE DOUBLE-DIGIT 1016 00:31:55,001 --> 00:31:57,000 UNEMPLOYMENT. 1017 00:31:57,001 --> 00:31:59,000 SO WE'RE ALL NEEDING TO PULL 1018 00:31:59,001 --> 00:32:01,000 TOGETHER HERESILICON VALLEY IS 1019 00:32:01,001 --> 00:32:02,000 WILLING TO DO ITS PART TO 1020 00:32:02,001 --> 00:32:04,000 RECYCLEO THAT THE WATER CAN 1021 00:32:04,001 --> 00:32:07,000 FLOW TO THOSE IN NEED. 1022 00:32:07,001 --> 00:32:10,000 I WOULD LIKE TO JUST POINT OUT 1023 00:32:10,001 --> 00:32:12,000 THAT ALTHOUGH WE ALL VALUE SAN 1024 00:32:12,001 --> 00:32:14,000 FRANCISCO, SAN JOSE HAS A 1025 00:32:14,001 --> 00:32:15,000 MILLION PEOPLE AND SINCE SAN 1026 00:32:15,001 --> 00:32:16,000 FRANCISCO ISN'T PART OF THIS 1027 00:32:16,001 --> 00:32:19,000 BILL A AT ALL, PERHAPS WE SHOULD 1028 00:32:19,001 --> 00:32:21,000 REFER TO THIS AS THE SAN JOSE 1029 00:32:21,001 --> 00:32:23,000 BAY AREA IN THE FUTURE. 1030 00:32:23,001 --> 00:32:26,000 THE SAN JOSE BAY AREA IS WILLING 1031 00:32:26,001 --> 00:32:27,000 TO HELP OUT. 1032 00:32:27,001 --> 00:32:29,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1033 00:32:29,001 --> 00:32:31,000 GENTLEWOMAN YIELDS BACK THE BALANCE OF HER TIME. 1034 00:32:31,001 --> 00:32:32,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA 1035 00:32:32,001 --> 00:32:34,000 RESERVES. 1036 00:32:34,001 --> 00:32:37,000 THE RECOGNIZED. 1037 00:32:37,001 --> 00:32:38,000 MR. HASTINGS: MR. SPEAKER, 1038 00:32:38,001 --> 00:32:42,000 REFERENCE WAS MADE AS TO WHY WE 1039 00:32:42,001 --> 00:32:44,000 ARE DEBATING THIS BILL ON THE FLOOR WHICH OBVIOUSLY THE 1040 00:32:44,001 --> 00:32:47,000 CONCEPT OF THIS BILL BRINGS 1041 00:32:47,001 --> 00:32:52,000 FORWARD WATER RECYCLING HAS 1042 00:32:52,001 --> 00:32:53,000 BROAD SUPPORT IN THIS 1043 00:32:53,001 --> 00:32:55,000 BUT THE INTEREST WAS -- ERCHES 1044 00:32:55,001 --> 00:32:56,000 WAS MADE THAT THE ONLY REASON 1045 00:32:56,001 --> 00:32:59,000 WE'RE DEBATING THIS IS BECAUSE 1046 00:32:59,001 --> 00:33:00,000 OF ONE MEMBER, DOESN'T SAY WHERE 1047 00:33:00,001 --> 00:33:03,000 HE'S FROM BUT I ASSUME EYES FROM 1048 00:33:03,001 --> 00:33:04,000 CALIFORNIA, WHO HAS BEEN VERY 1049 00:33:04,001 --> 00:33:06,000 OUTSPOKEN ABOUT THE ECONOMIC 1050 00:33:06,001 --> 00:33:08,000 DISASTER GOING ON IN THE SAN 1051 00:33:08,001 --> 00:33:10,000 JOAQUIN VALLEY OF CALIFORNIA. 1052 00:33:10,001 --> 00:33:12,000 MR. SPEAKER, I JUST WANT TO SAY 1053 00:33:12,001 --> 00:33:13,000 THAT THAT INDIVIDUAL IS 1054 00:33:13,001 --> 00:33:15,000 DEFENDING WHAT HE THINKS IS 1055 00:33:15,001 --> 00:33:16,000 RIGHT FOR HIS CONSTITUENTS. 1056 00:33:16,001 --> 00:33:19,000 AND HE IS DOING ALL THE RIGHT 1057 00:33:19,001 --> 00:33:20,000 THINGS WITHIN THE RULES OF THIS 1058 00:33:20,001 --> 00:33:23,000 HOUSE TO BRING THIS ISSUE 1059 00:33:23,001 --> 00:33:29,000 FORWARD SO WE CAN HAVE A DEBATE. 1060 00:33:29,001 --> 00:33:30,000 AND THE EFFORTS WE'VE ALSO MADE 1061 00:33:30,001 --> 00:33:32,000 BY THOSE REMARKS THAT THIS WAS 1062 00:33:32,001 --> 00:33:34,000 PARTISAN IN NATURE. 1063 00:33:34,001 --> 00:33:36,000 WELL, I WILL JUST REMIND, MR. 1064 00:33:36,001 --> 00:33:41,000 SPEAKER AND MY COLLEAGUES THAT 1065 00:33:41,001 --> 00:33:43,000 TO THE FLOOR OF THE HOUSE, HAD 1066 00:33:43,001 --> 00:33:45,000 BIPARTISAN SUPPORT. 1067 00:33:45,001 --> 00:33:46,000 NOW, -- OR BIPARTISAN 1068 00:33:46,001 --> 00:33:47,000 OPPOSITION. 1069 00:33:47,001 --> 00:33:49,000 AS YOU KNOW, WHEN THERE ARE RULE 1070 00:33:49,001 --> 00:33:50,000 VOTES, THEY'RE GENERALLY ALONG 1071 00:33:50,001 --> 00:33:54,000 PARTY LINES. 1072 00:33:54,001 --> 00:33:56,000 YES, MR. SPEAKER, 23 DEMOCRATS 1073 00:33:56,001 --> 00:33:59,000 VOTED AGAINST THIS RULE. 1074 00:33:59,001 --> 00:34:01,000 NOW, I DON'T KNOW THE MOTIVATION 1075 00:34:01,001 --> 00:34:03,000 OF ALL OF THEM BUT I WOULD 1076 00:34:03,001 --> 00:34:04,000 CERTAINLY HOPE AND I WOULD GUESS 1077 00:34:04,001 --> 00:34:06,000 THEY PROBABLY VOTED NO BECAUSE 1078 00:34:06,001 --> 00:34:08,000 THEY FELT THIS ISSUE WAS WORTHY 1079 00:34:08,001 --> 00:34:09,000 OF DEHE BAIT. 1080 00:34:09,001 --> 00:34:11,000 AND I MIGHT ADD, OF THOSE 23, 1081 00:34:11,001 --> 00:34:12,000 FOUR OF THEM ARE FROM THE 1082 00:34:12,001 --> 00:34:14,000 NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE IN 1083 00:34:14,001 --> 00:34:15,000 WHICH THIS BILL PASSED OUT BY 1084 00:34:15,001 --> 00:34:17,000 UNANIMOUS CONSENT. 1085 00:34:17,001 --> 00:34:20,000 BUT THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION ON 1086 00:34:20,001 --> 00:34:23,000 THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE ISSUE 1087 00:34:23,001 --> 00:34:24,000 AND THE COSTS. 1088 00:34:24,001 --> 00:34:27,000 SO, MR. SPEAKER, I JUST WANT TO 1089 00:34:27,001 --> 00:34:28,000 MAKE THIS POINT. 1090 00:34:28,001 --> 00:34:31,000 WHEN SOMEBODY IS ACCUSED OF 1091 00:34:31,001 --> 00:34:33,000 DEFENDING THEIR CONSTITUENTS IN 1092 00:34:33,001 --> 00:34:36,000 A NEGATIVE WAY, THAT IS NOT WHAT THIS HOUSE IS ALL ABOUT. 1093 00:34:36,001 --> 00:34:37,000 EVERY MEMBER SHOULD BE DOING 1094 00:34:37,001 --> 00:34:40,000 EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO DEFEND 1095 00:34:40,001 --> 00:34:43,000 THEIR CONSTITUENTS. 1096 00:34:43,001 --> 00:34:46,000 SO THE DEBATE ON THIS REALLY, I 1097 00:34:46,001 --> 00:34:49,000 BELIEVE, IS EVOLVING INTO A 1098 00:34:49,001 --> 00:34:53,000 BIPARTISAN DEBATE TO HAVE A 1099 00:34:53,001 --> 00:34:55,000 SECONDS. 1100 00:34:55,001 --> 00:34:56,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1101 00:34:56,001 --> 00:34:57,000 GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED. 1102 00:34:57,001 --> 00:34:58,000 MR. HASTINGS: BUT WE HAVE BEEN 1103 00:34:58,001 --> 00:35:00,000 DENIED THAT. 1104 00:35:00,001 --> 00:35:01,000 I WOULD JUST HOPE THAT THERE 1105 00:35:01,001 --> 00:35:03,000 WILL BE SOME OPPORTUNITIES LATER 1106 00:35:03,001 --> 00:35:04,000 ON FOR US TO REVISIT THIS AND 1107 00:35:04,001 --> 00:35:07,000 HAVE THESE POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS 1108 00:35:07,001 --> 00:35:09,000 THAT WERE BROUGHT FORWARD BY MY 1109 00:35:09,001 --> 00:35:10,000 COLLEAGUES THAT LIVE IN THESE 1110 00:35:10,001 --> 00:35:12,000 AREAS, IN A BIPARTISAN WAY, TO 1111 00:35:12,001 --> 00:35:13,000 BE DEBATED. 1112 00:35:13,001 --> 00:35:14,000 WITH THAT I RESERVE MY TIME. 1113 00:35:14,001 --> 00:35:15,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1114 00:35:15,001 --> 00:35:16,000 GENTLEMAN RESERVES THE BALANCE 1115 00:35:16,001 --> 00:35:18,000 OF HIS TIME. 1116 00:35:18,001 --> 00:35:19,000 THE GEN 1117 00:35:19,001 --> 00:35:21,000 RECOGNIZED. 1118 00:35:21,001 --> 00:35:22,000 MR. MILLER: I YLD THREE 1119 00:35:22,001 --> 00:35:25,000 MINUTES TO THE GENTLEWOMAN FROM 1120 00:35:25,001 --> 00:35:26,000 CALIFORNIA, MRS. SPEERS. 1121 00:35:26,001 --> 00:35:28,000 MS. SPEIER: I THANK YOU, MR. 1122 00:35:28,001 --> 00:35:29,000 SPEAKER. 1123 00:35:29,001 --> 00:35:31,000 I SALUTE MY GOOD FRIEND AND 1124 00:35:31,001 --> 00:35:32,000 COLLEAGUE, MR. MILLER, ON HIS 1125 00:35:32,001 --> 00:35:34,000 GOOD WORK. 1126 00:35:34,001 --> 00:35:35,000 THIS BILL WILL PROVIDE, AS HAS 1127 00:35:35,001 --> 00:35:39,000 BEEN SAID ALREADY, 2.6 BILLION 1128 00:35:39,001 --> 00:35:40,000 GALLONS OF WATER PER YEAR TO 1129 00:35:40,001 --> 00:35:41,000 DROUGHT-STRICKEN CALIFORNIA. 1130 00:35:41,001 --> 00:35:44,000 ADDING ENOUGH WATER TO SUPPLY -- 1131 00:35:44,001 --> 00:35:47,000 TO MEET THE DEMANDS TO NEARLY 1132 00:35:47,001 --> 00:35:49,000 25,000 HOUSEHOLDS AND IT WILL 1133 00:35:49,001 --> 00:35:52,000 ALSO GENERATE EITHER DIRECT OR 1134 00:35:52,001 --> 00:35:54,000 INDIRECTLY 3,500 JOBS. 1135 00:35:54,001 --> 00:35:55,000 MR. SPEAKER, ATTACKING A WATER 1136 00:35:55,001 --> 00:35:57,000 RECYCLING MEASURE THAT IS 1137 00:35:57,001 --> 00:35:59,000 DESIGNED TO HELP ALL OF 1138 00:35:59,001 --> 00:36:01,000 CALIFORNIA IS TRULY 1139 00:36:01,001 --> 00:36:02,000 COUNTERPRODUCTIVE. 1140 00:36:02,001 --> 00:36:04,000 THE NORTH COAST COUNTWATER 1141 00:36:04,001 --> 00:36:05,000 DISTRICT BASED IN MY 1142 00:36:05,001 --> 00:36:08,000 CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT HAS SAID, 1143 00:36:08,001 --> 00:36:09,000 AND I QUOTE, AS CALIFORNIA 1144 00:36:09,001 --> 00:36:11,000 CONTINUES TO EXPERIENCE DROUGHT 1145 00:36:11,001 --> 00:36:14,000 CONDITIONS, INCREASED DEMAND FOR 1146 00:36:14,001 --> 00:36:18,000 WATER AND STRAIN ON THE DELTA 1147 00:36:18,001 --> 00:36:21,000 SUPPLIES LIKE THOSE AUTHORIZED 1148 00:36:21,001 --> 00:36:24,000 IN H.R. 2442 PROVIDE A LONG-TERM 1149 00:36:24,001 --> 00:36:25,000 SUSTAINABLE SOLUTION ESSENTIAL 1150 00:36:25,001 --> 00:36:26,000 TO CALIFORNIA'S ECONOMY. 1151 00:36:26,001 --> 00:36:29,000 END QUOTE. 1152 00:36:29,001 --> 00:36:30,000 THE BOTTOM LINE IS, THAT 1153 00:36:30,001 --> 00:36:32,000 REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS ALIKE 1154 00:36:32,001 --> 00:36:35,000 AGREE THAT WATER RECYCLING HELPS 1155 00:36:35,001 --> 00:36:38,000 REDUCE STRESS ON CALIFORNIA'S 1156 00:36:38,001 --> 00:36:39,000 FRAGILE FRESHWATER SYSTEM AND 1157 00:36:39,001 --> 00:36:40,000 THEY HAVE APPROVED WATER 1158 00:36:40,001 --> 00:36:41,000 RECYCLING PROJECTS FOR 1159 00:36:41,001 --> 00:36:45,000 CALIFORNIA AND ACROSS THE 1160 00:36:45,001 --> 00:36:47,000 WESTERN REGION ON A BIPARTISAN 1161 00:36:47,001 --> 00:36:51,000 I HOPE WE CAN DO THAT AGAIN AND 1162 00:36:51,001 --> 00:36:52,000 I YIELD BACK. 1163 00:36:52,001 --> 00:36:53,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1164 00:36:53,001 --> 00:36:54,000 GENTLEWOMAN YIELDS BACK THE 1165 00:36:54,001 --> 00:36:55,000 BALANCE OF HER TIME. 1166 00:36:55,001 --> 00:36:56,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA 1167 00:36:56,001 --> 00:36:58,000 RESERVES. 1168 00:36:58,001 --> 00:36:59,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM WASHINGTON IS 1169 00:36:59,001 --> 00:37:01,000 COGNIZED. 1170 00:37:01,001 --> 00:37:02,000 MR. HASTINGS: MR. SPEAKER, I 1171 00:37:02,001 --> 00:37:03,000 AMBITION VERY PLEASED TO YIELD 1172 00:37:03,001 --> 00:37:05,000 FIVE MINUTES TO THE GENTLEMAN 1173 00:37:05,001 --> 00:37:07,000 FROM CALIFORNIA, FROM THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, MR. NUNES. 1174 00:37:07,001 --> 00:37:08,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1175 00:37:08,001 --> 00:37:10,000 GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED FOR FIVE 1176 00:37:10,001 --> 00:37:12,000 MINUTES. MR. NUNES: THANK YOU, MR. 1177 00:37:12,001 --> 00:37:13,000 SPEAKER, AND I THANK MY FRIEND 1178 00:37:13,001 --> 00:37:14,000 FROM WASHINGTON. 1179 00:37:14,001 --> 00:37:16,000 SINCE THIS HOUSE IS BEING DENIED 1180 00:37:16,001 --> 00:37:17,000 THE OPPORTUTY TO DEBATE 1181 00:37:17,001 --> 00:37:19,000 LEGISLATION THAT WOULD HAVE A 1182 00:37:19,001 --> 00:37:20,000 MEANINGFUL IMPACT ON THE 1183 00:37:20,001 --> 00:37:21,000 CALIFORNIA WATER CRISIS, I THINK 1184 00:37:21,001 --> 00:37:22,000 IT'S APPROPRIATE TO TAKE A 1185 00:37:22,001 --> 00:37:24,000 CLOSER LOOK AT THE BILL BEFORE 1186 00:37:24,001 --> 00:37:26,000 US TODAY. THIS BILL FUNDS A WATER 1187 00:37:26,001 --> 00:37:28,000 RECYCLING PROJECT FOR THE BAY 1188 00:37:28,001 --> 00:37:29,000 AREA, THAT'S IT. 1189 00:37:29,001 --> 00:37:30,000 THE SPONSOR OF THIS BILL POUNDS 1190 00:37:30,001 --> 00:37:31,000 HIS CHEST AND SAYS HE'S 1191 00:37:31,001 --> 00:37:33,000 PROVIDING 2.6 BILLION GALLONS 1192 00:37:33,001 --> 00:37:34,000 WAFF THE -- OF WATER FOR HIS 1193 00:37:34,001 --> 00:37:36,000 CONSTITUENTS. 1194 00:37:36,001 --> 00:37:37,000 CONGRATULATIONS. 1195 00:37:37,001 --> 00:37:39,000 WHAT THE RESPONSE ALREADY NOT 1196 00:37:39,001 --> 00:37:41,000 DISCLOSE -- SPONSOR WILL NOT 1197 00:37:41,001 --> 00:37:43,000 DISCLOSE IS THAT HE HAS WORKED 1198 00:37:43,001 --> 00:37:47,000 CONSISTENT TO DENY DELIVERY OF 1199 00:37:47,001 --> 00:37:49,000 200 BILLION GALLONS OF WATER TO 1200 00:37:49,001 --> 00:37:52,000 AN AREA THAT HAS 40% 1201 00:37:52,001 --> 00:37:55,000 UNEMPLOYMENT IN SOME CASES, THAT 1202 00:37:55,001 --> 00:37:58,000 HAS FOLKS STANDING IN FOOD LINES 1203 00:37:58,001 --> 00:37:59,000 AND LAND DRY WITH TUMBLEWEEDS. 1204 00:37:59,001 --> 00:38:01,000 IT'S EYE RON TAKE THIS BILL 1205 00:38:01,001 --> 00:38:04,000 PROVIDES WATER ONLY TO ONE 1206 00:38:04,001 --> 00:38:06,000 LITTLE AREA OF SAN FRANCISCO, 1207 00:38:06,001 --> 00:38:11,000 THE GREATER SAN FRANCISCO BAY 1208 00:38:11,001 --> 00:38:15,000 AREA, WHICH ALREADY 1209 00:38:15,001 --> 00:38:21,000 PRISTINE WATER FROM A BEAUTIFUL 1210 00:38:21,001 --> 00:38:24,000 FROM WHERE I LIVE. 1211 00:38:24,001 --> 00:38:26,000 YOU HEARD ME CORRECT. 1212 00:38:26,001 --> 00:38:27,000 THE BAY AREA GETS WATER FROM ONE 1213 00:38:27,001 --> 00:38:29,000 OF THE NATION'S FLAG SHIP 1214 00:38:29,001 --> 00:38:31,000 NATIONAL PARKS. 1215 00:38:31,001 --> 00:38:32,000 THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO, 1216 00:38:32,001 --> 00:38:35,000 KNOWING THAT IT NEED TO 1217 00:38:35,001 --> 00:38:37,000 PROVIDE WATER TO ITS CITIZENS, 1218 00:38:37,001 --> 00:38:39,000 DESTROYED A PORTION OF YOSEMITE 1219 00:38:39,001 --> 00:38:40,000 NATIONAL PARK TO CONSTRUCT ITS 1220 00:38:40,001 --> 00:38:43,000 OWN WATER SUPPLY RESERVOIR. 1221 00:38:43,001 --> 00:38:45,000 I ACTUALLY HAVE A PICTURE OF WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE. 1222 00:38:45,001 --> 00:38:46,000 TH 1223 00:38:46,001 --> 00:38:48,000 BEFORE, IF YOU'VE EVER B 1224 00:38:48,001 --> 00:38:50,000 YOSEMITE. 1225 00:38:50,001 --> 00:38:51,000 YOU CAN SEE THAT IT LOOKS VERY 1226 00:38:51,001 --> 00:38:52,000 SIMILAR TO THE VALLEY BUT NOW 1227 00:38:52,001 --> 00:39:01,000 IT'S DAMMED UP. 1228 00:39:01,001 --> 00:39:03,000 TO THE PEOPLE OF SAN FRANCISCO. 1229 00:39:03,001 --> 00:39:04,000 IT'S REALLY NOT THE WORST OF IT 1230 00:39:04,001 --> 00:39:05,000 BECAUSE WE HEAR SO MUCH ABOUT 1231 00:39:05,001 --> 00:39:06,000 HOW THE OTHER SIDE OF THE AISLE 1232 00:39:06,001 --> 00:39:09,000 CARED SO MUCH ABOUT THE FISH. 1233 00:39:09,001 --> 00:39:10,000 AND THE POOR FISHERMEN THAT ARE 1234 00:39:10,001 --> 00:39:13,000 LOSING THEIR JOBS BECAUSE THE 1235 00:39:13,001 --> 00:39:15,000 WATER IS NOT BEING DELIVERED TO 1236 00:39:15,001 --> 00:39:20,000 THE DELTA, TO SAVE ALL THESE 1237 00:39:20,001 --> 00:39:22,000 FIS 1238 00:39:22,001 --> 00:39:26,000 LET'S GO BACK AND LOOK AT A 1239 00:39:26,001 --> 00:39:29,000 LITTLE MAP. 1240 00:39:29,001 --> 00:39:30,000 THIS IS HETCHHETCHY, YOSEMITE 1241 00:39:30,001 --> 00:39:32,000 NATIONAL PARK. 1242 00:39:32,001 --> 00:39:34,000 HERE'S THE DAM. 1243 00:39:34,001 --> 00:39:36,000 AND THE WATER IS PIPED. 1244 00:39:36,001 --> 00:39:38,000 THERE'S NOT A RIVER. 1245 00:39:38,001 --> 00:39:39,000 IT'S PIPED DIRECTLY INTO THE SAN 1246 00:39:39,001 --> 00:39:42,000 FRANCISCO BAY AREA. 1247 00:39:42,001 --> 00:39:43,000 THIS IS THE SAME WATER, MR. 1248 00:39:43,001 --> 00:39:45,000 SPEAKER, THAT WOULD GO DOWN TO 1249 00:39:45,001 --> 00:39:48,000 SAVE THE FISH TO TAKE -- THAT 1250 00:39:48,001 --> 00:39:51,000 THEY CARE ABOUT SO MUCH. 1251 00:39:51,001 --> 00:39:53,000 SO DO THEY HONESTLY CARE ABOUT 1252 00:39:53,001 --> 00:39:54,000 FISH OR COULD -- DOUGH THIS -- 1253 00:39:54,001 --> 00:39:56,000 DO THEY REALLY JUST CARE ABOUT 1254 00:39:56,001 --> 00:39:57,000 PROVIDING WATER TO THEIR PEOPLE 1255 00:39:57,001 --> 00:39:59,000 AND SERVING THEIR RADICAL 1256 00:39:59,001 --> 00:40:00,000 ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDS THAT HAVE 1257 00:40:00,001 --> 00:40:02,000 WORKED FOR DECADES TO CUT WATER 1258 00:40:02,001 --> 00:40:06,000 OFF TO PEOPLE THAT ARE JUST 1259 00:40:06,001 --> 00:40:07,000 TRYING TO PROVIDE FOOD 1260 00:40:07,001 --> 00:40:09,000 AMERICA? 1261 00:40:09,001 --> 00:40:11,000 THE LEADERS IN THE 1262 00:40:11,001 --> 00:40:13,000 THE SURROUNDING REGION HAVE USED 1263 00:40:13,001 --> 00:40:16,000 THEIR MUSCLE IN THE PAST TO 1264 00:40:16,001 --> 00:40:18,000 ACTUALLY GET BY OTHER 1265 00:40:18,001 --> 00:40:21,000 ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS. 1266 00:40:21,001 --> 00:40:22,000 THEY NOT ONLY DESTROYED THE 1267 00:40:22,001 --> 00:40:24,000 BEAUTIFUL NATIONAL PA WHEN 1268 00:40:24,001 --> 00:40:25,000 THEY NEEDED WATER, THEY 1269 00:40:25,001 --> 00:40:27,000 SUBSEQUENTLY EXEMPTED THE WATER 1270 00:40:27,001 --> 00:40:29,000 PROJECT FROM THE WILD AND SCENIC 1271 00:40:29,001 --> 00:40:31,000 RIVERSCT, THAT'S WHY THEY 1272 00:40:31,001 --> 00:40:32,000 BUILT THE PIPE, SO THEY WOULDN'T 1273 00:40:32,001 --> 00:40:33,000 HAVE TO HAVE A RIVER. 1274 00:40:33,001 --> 00:40:36,000 WHEN THE BAY AREA NEEDED TO ADD 1275 00:40:36,001 --> 00:40:37,000 TO ITS RUNWAY, THEY EXEMPTED 1276 00:40:37,001 --> 00:40:39,000 ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS TO BUILD A 1277 00:40:39,001 --> 00:40:41,000 NEW AIRPORT IN THE BEAUTIFUL SAN 1278 00:40:41,001 --> 00:40:45,000 FRANCISCO BAY, ONE OF THE 1279 00:40:45,001 --> 00:40:48,000 GREATEST AREAS OF CALIFORNIA. 1280 00:40:48,001 --> 00:40:50,000 BUT DESPITE THEIR OWN RECD, 1281 00:40:50,001 --> 00:40:52,000 WHEN FOLKS A MERE TWO HOURS AWAY 1282 00:40:52,001 --> 00:40:56,000 ARE BLED DRY OF WATER, THEY HAVE 1283 00:40:56,001 --> 00:40:57,000 OPPOSED A TEMPORARY WAIVER TO 1284 00:40:57,001 --> 00:40:59,000 ALLOW NOT TWO BILLION GALLONS OF 1285 00:40:59,001 --> 00:41:03,000 WATER LIKE THIS BILL DOES BUT 1286 00:41:03,001 --> 00:41:05,000 20 BILLION GALLONS OF WATER. 1287 00:41:05,001 --> 00:41:09,000 I SUPPORT THESE WATER RECYCLING 1288 00:41:09,001 --> 00:41:11,000 PROJECTS BUT I OPPOSE THIS BILL 1289 00:41:11,001 --> 00:41:14,000 BECAUSE THE AUTHOR OF THIS BILL 1290 00:41:14,001 --> 00:41:17,000 IS THE LEADER OF THE EFFORT TO 1291 00:41:17,001 --> 00:41:19,000 CUT OFF 1292 00:41:19,001 --> 00:41:21,000 WATER THAT WOULD SERVE THE 1293 00:41:21,001 --> 00:41:25,000 GREATER SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, LOS 1294 00:41:25,001 --> 00:41:26,000 ANGELES AND SAN DIEGO. 1295 00:41:26,001 --> 00:41:30,000 SO ABSENT THE INCLUSION OF 1296 00:41:30,001 --> 00:41:33,000 LANGUAGE THAT WILL ADDRESS THIS GOVERNMENT-IMPOSED DROUGHT, 1297 00:41:33,001 --> 00:41:35,000 THIS BILL SHOULD BE REJECTED. 1298 00:41:35,001 --> 00:41:36,000 AND I YIELD BACK. 1299 00:41:36,001 --> 00:41:38,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1300 00:41:38,001 --> 00:41:39,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 1301 00:41:39,001 --> 00:41:40,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 1302 00:41:40,001 --> 00:41:42,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM WASHINGTON 1303 00:41:42,001 --> 00:41:43,000 RESERVES. 1304 00:41:43,001 --> 00:41:44,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA 1305 00:41:44,001 --> 00:41:45,000 IS RECOGNIZED. 1306 00:41:45,001 --> 00:41:47,000 MR. MILLER: I YIELD THREE 1307 00:41:47,001 --> 00:41:49,000 MINUTES TO THE GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA, MR. FARR. 1308 00:41:49,001 --> 00:41:50,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1309 00:41:50,001 --> 00:41:51,000 GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED FOR 1310 00:41:51,001 --> 00:41:53,000 THREE MINUTES. 1311 00:41:53,001 --> 00:41:54,000 MR. FARR: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, 1312 00:41:54,001 --> 00:41:58,000 MR. CHAIRMAN, FOR YIELDING. 1313 00:41:58,001 --> 00:42:00,000 GREATEST AGRICULTURE IN THE 1314 00:42:00,001 --> 00:42:01,000 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 1315 00:42:01,001 --> 00:42:02,000 ND GUESS WHAT? 1316 00:42:02,001 --> 00:42:04,000 WE DON'T GET A DROP OF THAT 1317 00:42:04,001 --> 00:42:05,000 WATER FROM ANYWHERE BUT THE SKY 1318 00:42:05,001 --> 00:42:07,000 THAT IT FALLS OUT OF AND ALL OF 1319 00:42:07,001 --> 00:42:09,000 THE WASTEWATER THAT WE RECYCLE, 1320 00:42:09,001 --> 00:42:12,000 THE LARGEST RECYCLING PROJECT 1321 00:42:12,001 --> 00:42:13,000 IN THE UNITED STATES, IN THE 1322 00:42:13,001 --> 00:42:17,000 WORLD, IRGAITING AGRICULTURE. 1323 00:42:17,001 --> 00:42:18,000 YOU KNOW WHAT, YOU PEOPLE 1324 00:42:18,001 --> 00:42:20,000 LIVING IN GLASS HOUSES 1325 00:42:20,001 --> 00:42:21,000 SHOULDN'T THROW STONES. 1326 00:42:21,001 --> 00:42:24,000 YOU TOOK A DESERT IN THE SAN 1327 00:42:24,001 --> 00:42:25,000 JOAQUIN VALLEY AND USING 1328 00:42:25,001 --> 00:42:27,000 TAXPAYERS' MONEY YOU BUILD ALL 1329 00:42:27,001 --> 00:42:28,000 THESE PUBLIC SYSTEMS, DAMMING 1330 00:42:28,001 --> 00:42:31,000 UP THOSE RIVERS -- AND I'M GLAD 1331 00:42:31,001 --> 00:42:34,000 MR. NUNES IS GOING TO SUPPORT 1332 00:42:34,001 --> 00:42:35,000 US IN TEARING DOWN THAT DAM, 1333 00:42:35,001 --> 00:42:37,000 AND DAMMED UP THOSE RIVERS TO 1334 00:42:37,001 --> 00:42:39,000 GET ALL OF THE WATER INTO THE 1335 00:42:39,001 --> 00:42:40,000 CANALS TO TAKE THEM INTO A 1336 00:42:40,001 --> 00:42:42,000 DESERT. 1337 00:42:42,001 --> 00:42:43,000 AND WHAT HAPPENED? 1338 00:42:43,001 --> 00:42:44,000 IT DIDN'T RAIN. 1339 00:42:44,001 --> 00:42:48,000 ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU'RE CAUGHT 1340 00:42:48,001 --> 00:42:51,000 IN A DROUGHT. 1341 00:42:51,001 --> 00:42:53,000 SO WHO DO YOU BLAME? YOU BLAME EVERYTHING. 1342 00:42:53,001 --> 00:42:54,000 YOU BLAME THE DEMOCRATS. 1343 00:42:54,001 --> 00:42:57,000 YOU BLAME THE WATER. 1344 00:42:57,001 --> 00:42:58,000 YOU BLAME THE SKY. 1345 00:42:58,001 --> 00:43:01,000 DIDN'T FALL OUT OF THE SKY, BUT 1346 00:43:01,001 --> 00:43:02,000 YOU BLAME EVERY LAW THAT'S OUT 1347 00:43:02,001 --> 00:43:05,000 THERE. 1348 00:43:05,001 --> 00:43:06,000 PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN GLASS HOUSES 1349 00:43:06,001 --> 00:43:07,000 SHOULDN'T THROW STONES BECAUSE 1350 00:43:07,001 --> 00:43:09,000 WHAT YOU ARE DOING ABOUT 1351 00:43:09,001 --> 00:43:10,000 RECYCLING ALL OF THE WASTEWATER 1352 00:43:10,001 --> 00:43:12,000 YOU'RE CREATING? 1353 00:43:12,001 --> 00:43:13,000 YOU ALWAYS HAD THAT. 1354 00:43:13,001 --> 00:43:15,000 OUR COMMUNITIES PUT THEIR MONEY 1355 00:43:15,001 --> 00:43:16,000 UP. 1356 00:43:16,001 --> 00:43:17,000 THIS BILL SAYS YOU HAVE TO PUT 1357 00:43:17,001 --> 00:43:20,000 UP 3/4 OF THE MONEY BEFORE YOU 1358 00:43:20,001 --> 00:43:22,000 EVEN COME AND HELP -- ASK HELP 1359 00:43:22,001 --> 00:43:23,000 FROM WASHINGTON. 1360 00:43:23,001 --> 00:43:25,000 FRANKLY, IT OUGHT TO BE THE 1361 00:43:25,001 --> 00:43:26,000 OTHER WAY AROUND. 1362 00:43:26,001 --> 00:43:27,000 RECYCLING IS SO IMPORTANT WE 1363 00:43:27,001 --> 00:43:29,000 SHOULD BE DOING IT IN EVERY 1364 00:43:29,001 --> 00:43:30,000 COMMUNITY OF THE UNITED STATES 1365 00:43:30,001 --> 00:43:32,000 AND THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD BE 1366 00:43:32,001 --> 00:43:33,000 HE 1367 00:43:33,001 --> 00:43:36,000 1/3 HELP. 1368 00:43:36,001 --> 00:43:37,000 DON'T THINK THAT BECAUSE ONE 1369 00:43:37,001 --> 00:43:38,000 PART OF ONE STATE DIDN'T GET 1370 00:43:38,001 --> 00:43:41,000 ENOUGH RAIN LAST YEAR THAT WE 1371 00:43:41,001 --> 00:43:44,000 OUGHT TO BURY THE WHOLE THING 1372 00:43:44,001 --> 00:43:45,000 TRYING TO GET RECYCLED WATER. 1373 00:43:45,001 --> 00:43:47,000 GUESS WHAT YOU DO WHEN YOU GET 1374 00:43:47,001 --> 00:43:48,000 THAT RECYCLED WATER? 1375 00:43:48,001 --> 00:43:50,000 YOU FREE UP PORTABLE WATER THAT 1376 00:43:50,001 --> 00:43:51,000 CAN GO TO OTHER THINGS. 1377 00:43:51,001 --> 00:43:52,000 > WILL THE GENTLEMAN YIELD? 1378 00:43:52,001 --> 00:43:53,000 MR. FARR: NO. 1379 00:43:53,001 --> 00:43:55,000 YOU'LL HAVE TIME. 1380 00:43:55,001 --> 00:43:56,000 WHEN YOU HAVE THAT PORTABLE 1381 00:43:56,001 --> 00:43:57,000 WATER YOU OUGHT NOT TO BE USING 1382 00:43:57,001 --> 00:44:00,000 IT FOR AGRICULTURE. 1383 00:44:00,001 --> 00:44:01,000 YOU OUGHT TO BE USING IT FOR 1384 00:44:01,001 --> 00:44:03,000 DRINKING PURPOSES. 1385 00:44:03,001 --> 00:44:05,000 THE GULF COURSES ON THE 1386 00:44:05,001 --> 00:44:06,000 MONTERREY PENINSULA IRGAITED BY 1387 00:44:06,001 --> 00:44:08,000 RECYCLED WATER. 1388 00:44:08,001 --> 00:44:10,000 PEBBLE BEACH, CYPRUS, ALL THESE 1389 00:44:10,001 --> 00:44:11,000 BIG FAMOUS GOLF COURSES. 1390 00:44:11,001 --> 00:44:14,000 SO I THINK THOSE PEOPLE THAT 1391 00:44:14,001 --> 00:44:15,000 ARE CRITICIZING THIS BILL ARE 1392 00:44:15,001 --> 00:44:17,000 CRITICIZING THE FACT THAT WE 1393 00:44:17,001 --> 00:44:18,000 DIDN'T GET ENOUGH RAIN IN SAN 1394 00:44:18,001 --> 00:44:19,000 JOAQUIN VALLEY OUGHT TO BE 1395 00:44:19,001 --> 00:44:22,000 ASKING FOR US TO HELP THEM -- 1396 00:44:22,001 --> 00:44:23,000 HELP THEM GET RECYCLING 1397 00:44:23,001 --> 00:44:25,000 PROJECTS IN THEIR COMMUNITIES 1398 00:44:25,001 --> 00:44:26,000 LIKE WE HAVE IN THE SALINAS 1399 00:44:26,001 --> 00:44:27,000 CENTRALY. 1400 00:44:27,001 --> 00:44:30,000 WE CAN SOLVE THIS PROBLEM BUT 1401 00:44:30,001 --> 00:44:31,000 WE GOT TO -- VALLEY. 1402 00:44:31,001 --> 00:44:33,000 WE CAN SOLVE THIS PROBLEM BUT 1403 00:44:33,001 --> 00:44:35,000 WE HAVE TO SOLVE THEM IN 1404 00:44:35,001 --> 00:44:37,000 DIFFERENT WAYS AND ONE IS 1405 00:44:37,001 --> 00:44:38,000 RECYCLING. 1406 00:44:38,001 --> 00:44:40,000 THIS BILL IS GOOD FOR A LOT OF 1407 00:44:40,001 --> 00:44:42,000 COMMUNITIES IN CALIFORNIA. I WOULD URGE AN AYE VOTE. 1408 00:44:42,001 --> 00:44:43,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1409 00:44:43,001 --> 00:44:45,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 1410 00:44:45,001 --> 00:44:47,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 1411 00:44:47,001 --> 00:44:48,000 THEIR REMARKS TO THE CHAIR. 1412 00:44:48,001 --> 00:44:50,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA 1413 00:44:50,001 --> 00:44:51,000 RESERVES. 1414 00:44:51,001 --> 00:44:52,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM WASHINGTON 1415 00:44:52,001 --> 00:44:54,000 IS RECOGNIZED. 1416 00:44:54,001 --> 00:44:55,000 MR. HASTINGS: MR. SPEAKER, I'M 1417 00:44:55,001 --> 00:44:56,000 PLEASED TO YIELD A MINUTE TO 1418 00:44:56,001 --> 00:44:58,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA. 1419 00:44:58,001 --> 00:44:59,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1420 00:44:59,001 --> 00:45:00,000 GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED FOR ONE 1421 00:45:00,001 --> 00:45:01,000 MINUTE. 1422 00:45:01,001 --> 00:45:02,000 MR. NUNES: THANK YOU, MR. 1423 00:45:02,001 --> 00:45:04,000 SPEAKER. 1424 00:45:04,001 --> 00:45:05,000 I WANT TO REMIND MY DEMOCRAT 1425 00:45:05,001 --> 00:45:07,000 COLLEAGUES ON THE OTHER SIDE OF 1426 00:45:07,001 --> 00:45:08,000 THE AISLE THAT THERE WERE TWO 1427 00:45:08,001 --> 00:45:09,000 PRESIDENTS THAT WERE 1428 00:45:09,001 --> 00:45:10,000 INSTRUMENTAL IN BUILDING THE 1429 00:45:10,001 --> 00:45:12,000 WATER PROJECTS THAT TURNED A 1430 00:45:12,001 --> 00:45:14,000 DESERT INTO THE MOST PRODUCTIVE 1431 00:45:14,001 --> 00:45:17,000 AGRICULTURAL LAND IN THE WORLD. 1432 00:45:17,001 --> 00:45:18,000 ONE WAS NAMED FRANKLIN 1433 00:45:18,001 --> 00:45:20,000 ROOSEVELT. 1434 00:45:20,001 --> 00:45:21,000 AND THE OTHER WAS NAMED JOHN F. 1435 00:45:21,001 --> 00:45:22,000 KENNEDY. 1436 00:45:22,001 --> 00:45:24,000 LAST TIME I CHECKED THEY WERE 1437 00:45:24,001 --> 00:45:26,000 BOTH DEMOCRATS. 1438 00:45:26,001 --> 00:45:28,000 THAT WAS BACK WHEN THE 1439 00:45:28,001 --> 00:45:31,000 DEMOCRATS CARED ABOUT PROVIDING 1440 00:45:31,001 --> 00:45:34,000 JOBS TO PEOPLE INSTEAD OF 1441 00:45:34,001 --> 00:45:35,000 SERVING THEIR RADICAL AND 1442 00:45:35,001 --> 00:45:40,000 ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDS IN THE 1443 00:45:40,001 --> 00:45:41,000 BAY AREA. 1444 00:45:41,001 --> 00:45:44,000 MY HAVE WE GONE A LONG WAY IN 1445 00:45:44,001 --> 00:45:46,000 THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. IT'S 1446 00:45:46,001 --> 00:45:47,000 I YIELD BACK. 1447 00:45:47,001 --> 00:45:49,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1448 00:45:49,001 --> 00:45:51,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 1449 00:45:51,001 --> 00:45:52,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM WASHINGTON 1450 00:45:52,001 --> 00:45:54,000 RESERVES. 1451 00:45:54,001 --> 00:45:56,000 IS RECOGNIZED. 1452 00:45:56,001 --> 00:45:58,000 MR. MILLER: I HAVE NO FURTHER 1453 00:45:58,001 --> 00:46:00,000 SPEAKERS SO I'LL RESERVE UNTIL IT'S TIME TO CLOSE. 1454 00:46:00,001 --> 00:46:01,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1455 00:46:01,001 --> 00:46:03,000 GENTLEMAN RESERVES. 1456 00:46:03,001 --> 00:46:04,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM WASHINGTON. 1457 00:46:04,001 --> 00:46:05,000 MR. HASTINGS: MR. S 1458 00:46:05,001 --> 00:46:07,000 MUCH TIME ON BOTH SIDES? 1459 00:46:07,001 --> 00:46:09,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN CONTROLS 6 1/2 1460 00:46:09,001 --> 00:46:10,000 MINUTES. 1461 00:46:10,001 --> 00:46:12,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA 1462 00:46:12,001 --> 00:46:13,000 CONTROLS 13 MINUTES. 1463 00:46:13,001 --> 00:46:14,000 MR. HASTINGS: MR. EAKER, IF 1464 00:46:14,001 --> 00:46:16,000 THE GENTLEMAN IS PREPARED TO 1465 00:46:16,001 --> 00:46:17,000 CLOSE, I UNDERSTAND, MR. 1466 00:46:17,001 --> 00:46:18,000 SPEAKER -- I YIELD MYSELF SUCH 1467 00:46:18,001 --> 00:46:19,000 TIME AS I MAY CONSUME. 1468 00:46:19,001 --> 00:46:21,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1469 00:46:21,001 --> 00:46:22,000 GENTLEMAN IS RECOGNIZED. 1470 00:46:22,001 --> 00:46:23,000 MR 1471 00:46:23,001 --> 00:46:25,000 STOOD UP AND ASKED MY DEAR 1472 00:46:25,001 --> 00:46:26,000 FRIEND FROM CALIFORNIA, MR. 1473 00:46:26,001 --> 00:46:27,000 FARR, TO YIELD AND HE SAID HE 1474 00:46:27,001 --> 00:46:28,000 DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO YIELD 1475 00:46:28,001 --> 00:46:30,000 BECAUSE I WANTED TO POINT OUT 1476 00:46:30,001 --> 00:46:32,000 SOMETHING HE SAID TO CLARIFY AT 1477 00:46:32,001 --> 00:46:33,000 LEAST WHAT I THINK IS HIS 1478 00:46:33,001 --> 00:46:34,000 INTERPRETATION OF WHAT HE WAS 1479 00:46:34,001 --> 00:46:35,000 SAYING. 1480 00:46:35,001 --> 00:46:38,000 HE WAS SAYING THAT THESE WATER 1481 00:46:38,001 --> 00:46:40,000 RECYCLING BILLS ARE 25/75 1482 00:46:40,001 --> 00:46:41,000 MATCH. 1483 00:46:41,001 --> 00:46:42,000 AND THAT'S WHAT THE BILL SAYS. 1484 00:46:42,001 --> 00:46:44,000 THERE'S NO REQUIREMENT, 1485 00:46:44,001 --> 00:46:46,000 HOWEVER, IN THIS BILL FOR THOSE 1486 00:46:46,001 --> 00:46:48,000 RECIPIENTS OF THESE FEDERAL 1487 00:46:48,001 --> 00:46:49,000 DOLLARS TO REPAY THESE FEDERAL 1488 00:46:49,001 --> 00:46:52,000 DOLLARS. 1489 00:46:52,001 --> 00:46:57,000 ON THE OTHER HAND, I COME FROM 1490 00:46:57,001 --> 00:47:00,000 CENTRAL WASHINGTON, BUREAU OF 1491 00:47:00,001 --> 00:47:01,000 DAM, AND WHILE THEY WERE BUILT 1492 00:47:01,001 --> 00:47:06,000 BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, IT'S 1493 00:47:06,001 --> 00:47:09,000 TRUE THOSE MONEYS HAVE TO BE 1494 00:47:09,001 --> 00:47:10,000 PAID BACK BY THOSE IRRIGATION 1495 00:47:10,001 --> 00:47:12,000 COMMUNITIES. 1496 00:47:12,001 --> 00:47:13,000 WE DON'T GET A 50% CUT. 1497 00:47:13,001 --> 00:47:15,000 WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT APPLES AND ORANGES. 1498 00:47:15,001 --> 00:47:17,000 NO PUN INTENDED ON THAT. 1499 00:47:17,001 --> 00:47:20,000 SO, MR. SPEAKER, AS I HAVE 1500 00:47:20,001 --> 00:47:22,000 MENTIONED EARLIER, THE 1501 00:47:22,001 --> 00:47:23,000 THAT I RELUCTANTLY OPPOSE THIS 1502 00:47:23,001 --> 00:47:25,000 BILL BECAUSE WHAT IT DOES NOT 1503 00:47:25,001 --> 00:47:26,000 DO. 1504 00:47:26,001 --> 00:47:31,000 AND, OF COURSE, WHAT IT DOES 1505 00:47:31,001 --> 00:47:33,000 NOT DO IS TO PROVIDE FOR AN 1506 00:47:33,001 --> 00:47:35,000 OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS A VERY, 1507 00:47:35,001 --> 00:47:36,000 VERY SERIOUS ECONOMIC PROBLEM 1508 00:47:36,001 --> 00:47:37,000 IN THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY OF 1509 00:47:37,001 --> 00:47:42,000 CALIFORNIA. 1510 00:47:42,001 --> 00:47:43,000 AS I MENTIONED ON THE RULE, 1511 00:47:43,001 --> 00:47:45,000 SUPPORTED REPUBLICANS ON THIS. 1512 00:47:45,001 --> 00:47:47,000 THIS WOULD INDICATE TO ME, I 1513 00:47:47,001 --> 00:47:51,000 WOULD HOPE, THAT THERE IS 1514 00:47:51,001 --> 00:47:53,000 GROWING SUPPORT FOR HAVING THIS 1515 00:47:53,001 --> 00:47:55,000 ADDRESSED IN A MANNER ON THE 1516 00:47:55,001 --> 00:47:56,000 HOUSE -- ON THE FLOOR OF THE 1517 00:47:56,001 --> 00:47:58,000 U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 1518 00:47:58,001 --> 00:47:59,000 I CERTAINLY HOPE THAT THAT IS 1519 00:47:59,001 --> 00:48:02,000 THE CASE. 1520 00:48:02,001 --> 00:48:05,000 AND IF OPPOSITION FROM ME AND 1521 00:48:05,001 --> 00:48:07,000 OTHERS IS A WAY TO GET TO THAT 1522 00:48:07,001 --> 00:48:10,000 POINT, I WILL BE VERY, VERY 1523 00:48:10,001 --> 00:48:12,000 BUT WITH THAT, MR. SPEAKER, I 1524 00:48:12,001 --> 00:48:14,000 HAVE TO STAND UP AND 1525 00:48:14,001 --> 00:48:17,000 RELUCTANTLY OPPOSE THIS BILL 1526 00:48:17,001 --> 00:48:18,000 FOR THE MANY REASONS I SAID IN 1527 00:48:18,001 --> 00:48:21,000 MY PREVIOUS REMARKS. 1528 00:48:21,001 --> 00:48:22,000 AND WITH THAT I'LL YIELD BACK 1529 00:48:22,001 --> 00:48:24,000 THE BALANCE OF MY TIME. 1530 00:48:24,001 --> 00:48:26,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 1531 00:48:26,001 --> 00:48:27,000 BALANCE OF 1532 00:48:27,001 --> 00:48:29,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA 1533 00:48:29,001 --> 00:48:30,000 IS RECOGNIZED. 1534 00:48:30,001 --> 00:48:31,000 MR. MILLER: MR. SPEAKER, I 1535 00:48:31,001 --> 00:48:32,000 YIELD MYSELF SUCH TIME AS I MAY 1536 00:48:32,001 --> 00:48:33,000 CONSUME. 1537 00:48:33,001 --> 00:48:35,000 FIRST OF ALL, I WANTED TO BEGIN 1538 00:48:35,001 --> 00:48:36,000 BY THANKING CHAIRWOMAN 1539 00:48:36,001 --> 00:48:38,000 NAPOLITANO AND CHAIRMAN RAHALL, 1540 00:48:38,001 --> 00:48:40,000 THE CHAIRMAN OF THE FULL COMMITTEE AND CHAIRWOMAN 1541 00:48:40,001 --> 00:48:42,000 NAPOLITANO OF THE UBCOMMITTEE 1542 00:48:42,001 --> 00:48:43,000 ON WATER AND POWER FOR THEIR 1543 00:48:43,001 --> 00:48:44,000 SUPPORT OF THIS LEGISLATION FOR 1544 00:48:44,001 --> 00:48:46,000 SUPPORTING THE EXPANSION OF 1545 00:48:46,001 --> 00:48:47,000 WATER SUPPLIES IN 1546 00:48:47,001 --> 00:48:49,000 DROUGHT-STRICKEN REGIONS OF OUR 1547 00:48:49,001 --> 00:48:50,000 COUNTRY. 1548 00:48:50,001 --> 00:48:51,000 AT THE END OF THE DAY AFTER ALL 1549 00:48:51,001 --> 00:48:53,000 OF THE DEBATE, THIS IS 1550 00:48:53,001 --> 00:48:56,000 LEGISLATION TO PROVIDE FOR WATER REUSE AND RECYCLING. 1551 00:48:56,001 --> 00:48:57,000 WATER REUSE AND RECYCLING IS 1552 00:48:57,001 --> 00:48:58,000 DESPERATELY NEED IN OUR STATE 1553 00:48:58,001 --> 00:48:59,000 OF CALIFORNIA. 1554 00:48:59,001 --> 00:49:01,000 THIS IS A POLICY THAT'S 1555 00:49:01,001 --> 00:49:03,000 SUPPORTED THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE 1556 00:49:03,001 --> 00:49:04,000 STATE, INCLUDING THE VALLEY, 1557 00:49:04,001 --> 00:49:05,000 BUT THROUGHOUT SOUTHERN 1558 00:49:05,001 --> 00:49:07,000 CALIFORNIA AND NORTHERN 1559 00:49:07,001 --> 00:49:09,000 CALIFORNIA. EVERY PART OF THE STATE 1560 00:49:09,001 --> 00:49:10,000 UNDERSTANDS THE EXTENT TO 1561 00:49:10,001 --> 00:49:12,000 WE CAN CONTINUE TO CREATE NEW 1562 00:49:12,001 --> 00:49:18,000 SUPPLIES OF WATER THROUGH USE 1563 00:49:18,001 --> 00:49:25,000 AND REUSE OF CYCLING. 1564 00:49:25,001 --> 00:49:27,000 PEOPLE SAID I WAS HERE 1565 00:49:27,001 --> 00:49:29,000 ADDED A LOT MORE PEOPLE TO THE 1566 00:49:29,001 --> 00:49:30,000 STATE OF CALIFORNIA SINCE THE 1567 00:49:30,001 --> 00:49:31,000 LAST DROUGHT. 1568 00:49:31,001 --> 00:49:32,000 WE DIDN'T DO MUCH ABOUT WATER 1569 00:49:32,001 --> 00:49:34,000 POLICY SINCE THAT TIME. 1570 00:49:34,001 --> 00:49:35,000 BUT NOW WE PUT TOGETHER A 1571 00:49:35,001 --> 00:49:36,000 COALITION FOR PEOPLE THAT 1572 00:49:36,001 --> 00:49:40,000 BATTLEOVER THE YEARS, 1573 00:49:40,001 --> 00:49:42,000 METROPOLITAN WATER DISTRI 1574 00:49:42,001 --> 00:49:43,000 CONTRACOSTA WATER DISTRICT, THE 1575 00:49:43,001 --> 00:49:45,000 CENTRAL VALLEY, WHY ARE THEY 1576 00:49:45,001 --> 00:49:47,000 COMING TOGETHER? 1577 00:49:47,001 --> 00:49:48,000 BECAUSE THEY RECOGNIZE HOW 1578 00:49:48,001 --> 00:49:49,000 VALUABLE REUSE AND RECYCLING 1579 00:49:49,001 --> 00:49:50,000 WILL BE IN THE STATE OF 1580 00:49:50,001 --> 00:49:54,000 CALIFORNIA GOING FORWARD TO 1581 00:49:54,001 --> 00:49:57,000 MEET THE NEEDS OF ITS GROWING ECONOMY, OF ITS DIVERSE 1582 00:49:57,001 --> 00:49:58,000 ECONOMY, OF THE IMPORTANCE OF 1583 00:49:58,001 --> 00:49:59,000 AGRICULTURE, OF THE IMPORTANCE 1584 00:49:59,001 --> 00:50:00,000 OF BRINGING NEW BUSINESSES TO 1585 00:50:00,001 --> 00:50:02,000 CALIFORNIA, OF DEVELOPING AND 1586 00:50:02,001 --> 00:50:06,000 MAKING SURE WE HAVE CLEAN WATER 1587 00:50:06,001 --> 00:50:07,000 AVAILABLE FOR HIGH TECHNOLOGY 1588 00:50:07,001 --> 00:50:09,000 THROUGHOUT THE STATES. 1589 00:50:09,001 --> 00:50:11,000 THAT'S WHY THIS BILL, THIS POLICY SPEAKS. 1590 00:50:11,001 --> 00:50:12,000 IT SPEAKS TO SO MANY AREAS OF 1591 00:50:12,001 --> 00:50:14,000 THE STATE. 1592 00:50:14,001 --> 00:50:15,000 IT SPEAKS -- THIS POLICY SPEAKS 1593 00:50:15,001 --> 00:50:17,000 TO ORANGE COUNTY AND SAN DIEGO 1594 00:50:17,001 --> 00:50:21,000 COUNTY AND L.A. COUNTY AND 1595 00:50:21,001 --> 00:50:23,000 RIVERSIDE COUNTY AND CONTRA 1596 00:50:23,001 --> 00:50:26,000 COSTA COUNTY, AND MONTERREY 1597 00:50:26,001 --> 00:50:27,000 COUNTY, 1598 00:50:27,001 --> 00:50:28,000 WHY? 1599 00:50:28,001 --> 00:50:30,000 BECAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE 1600 00:50:30,001 --> 00:50:32,000 TAKE THE PRESSURE OFF A SYSTEM 1601 00:50:32,001 --> 00:50:36,000 THAT'S OVERDESCRIBED, NOT JUST 1602 00:50:36,001 --> 00:50:37,000 IN DROUGHT YEARS - 1603 00:50:37,001 --> 00:50:39,000 OVERSUBSCRIBED NOT JUST IN 1604 00:50:39,001 --> 00:50:41,000 DROUGHT YEARS BUT EVERY YEAR. 1605 00:50:41,001 --> 00:50:42,000 NOW, MY COLLEAGUES HAVE 1606 00:50:42,001 --> 00:50:43,000 SUGGESTED THAT SOMEHOW THIS IS 1607 00:50:43,001 --> 00:50:44,000 A BILL IN WHICH WE SHOULD 1608 00:50:44,001 --> 00:50:46,000 SETTLE CALIFORNIA WATER ISSUES. 1609 00:50:46,001 --> 00:50:48,000 I FIND IT RATHER INTERESTING IN 1610 00:50:48,001 --> 00:50:50,000 FEBRUARY OF LAST YEAR WHEN WE 1611 00:50:50,001 --> 00:50:53,000 PASSED THE SOUTH ORANGE COUNTY 1612 00:50:53,001 --> 00:50:55,000 RECYCLE AND WATER PLANT FOR MR. CALVERT, THERE WAS NO 1613 00:50:55,001 --> 00:50:56,000 DISCUSSION OF THIS. 1614 00:50:56,001 --> 00:50:58,000 THERE WAS NO DISCUSSION OF 1615 00:50:58,001 --> 00:50:59,000 AMENDMENTS. 1616 00:50:59,001 --> 00:51:00,000 THERE WAS NO SUGGESTION THAT 1617 00:51:00,001 --> 00:51:01,000 THIS WAS HIGH ON ON 1618 00:51:01,001 --> 00:51:03,000 CALIFORNIA WATER. 1619 00:51:03,001 --> 00:51:04,000 WHEN WE PASSED THE LAKE HODGES 1620 00:51:04,001 --> 00:51:05,000 SURFACE TER IMPROVEMENT ACT 1621 00:51:05,001 --> 00:51:07,000 IN APRIL FOR MR. BILBRAY, NO 1622 00:51:07,001 --> 00:51:09,000 DISCUSSION OF AMENDMENTS. 1623 00:51:09,001 --> 00:51:11,000 NO NEED TO SETTLE THESE ISSUES HERE. 1624 00:51:11,001 --> 00:51:12,000 THEY NEVER ASKED FOR TIME. 1625 00:51:12,001 --> 00:51:14,000 THEY NEVER ASKED FOR 1626 00:51:14,001 --> 00:51:15,000 A 1627 00:51:15,001 --> 00:51:17,000 THEY DIDN'T ASK FOR A VOTE. 1628 00:51:17,001 --> 00:51:18,000 THEY DID IT UNANIMOUSLY AND BY 1629 00:51:18,001 --> 00:51:19,000 VOICE VOTE. 1630 00:51:19,001 --> 00:51:21,000 THE WATER DISTRICT FOR MR. 1631 00:51:21,001 --> 00:51:23,000 CHAFFETZ IN UTAH, NO DI 1632 00:51:23,001 --> 00:51:25,000 THAT WE SHOULD TAKE THE UTAH 1633 00:51:25,001 --> 00:51:27,000 BILL AND BATTLE IT OUT OVER 1634 00:51:27,001 --> 00:51:29,000 CALIFORNIA WATER. 1635 00:51:29,001 --> 00:51:30,000 NO SUGGESTION THAT SOMEHOW WE 1636 00:51:30,001 --> 00:51:31,000 WERE GOING TO DO SOMETHING 1637 00:51:31,001 --> 00:51:34,000 OTHER THAN THAT. 1638 00:51:34,001 --> 00:51:39,000 IN SEPTEMBER, JUST A MONTH AGO, 1639 00:51:39,001 --> 00:51:41,000 WITH MR. GALLEGLY, FO 1640 00:51:41,001 --> 00:51:42,000 WATER DISTRICT, NO SUGGESTION 1641 00:51:42,001 --> 00:51:44,000 OF THIS. 1642 00:51:44,001 --> 00:51:46,000 NO REQUEST FOR 1643 00:51:46,001 --> 00:51:47,000 NO DEBATE IN THE COMMITTEE ON 1644 00:51:47,001 --> 00:51:49,000 THIS. 1645 00:51:49,001 --> 00:51:50,000 AND THEN AGAIN LAST MONTH, MR. 1646 00:51:50,001 --> 00:51:53,000 WALDEN FROM OREGON, NO 1647 00:51:53,001 --> 00:51:54,000 SUGGESTION WE'RE GOING TO TAKE 1648 00:51:54,001 --> 00:51:55,000 THEREGON BILL AND SETTLE THE 1649 00:51:55,001 --> 00:51:56,000 CALIFORNIA ISSUE. 1650 00:51:56,001 --> 00:51:57,000 WHY? 1651 00:51:57,001 --> 00:51:58,000 BECAUSE WE KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON 1652 00:51:58,001 --> 00:52:00,000 IN CALIFORNIA. 1653 00:52:00,001 --> 00:52:01,000 WE HAVE A VERY DIFFICULT 1654 00:52:01,001 --> 00:52:03,000 COMPLEX PROBLEM. 1655 00:52:03,001 --> 00:52:04,000 THE LEGISLATION, OUR STATE 1656 00:52:04,001 --> 00:52:07,000 LEGISLATURE HAS BEEN STRUGGLING 1657 00:52:07,001 --> 00:52:09,000 FOR IT FOR TWO YEARS. THEY ARE IN SPECIAL SESSION 1658 00:52:09,001 --> 00:52:12,000 RIGHT NOW. 1659 00:52:12,001 --> 00:52:13,000 KNOW IF THEY HAVE THE VOTES OR 1660 00:52:13,001 --> 00:52:14,000 NOT TO DO THAT. 1661 00:52:14,001 --> 00:52:16,000 BUT PEOPLE ARE GETTING TOGETHER 1662 00:52:16,001 --> 00:52:17,000 TO TRY TO SOLVE IT. 1663 00:52:17,001 --> 00:52:18,000 WHEN THIS NEW ADMINISTRATION 1664 00:52:18,001 --> 00:52:20,000 CAME IN -- BECAUSE I DON'T 1665 00:52:20,001 --> 00:52:21,000 REMEMBER YOU ASKING FOR THIS IN 1666 00:52:21,001 --> 00:52:22,000 THE FIRST YEAR OF THE DROUGHT 1667 00:52:22,001 --> 00:52:24,000 OR THE SECOND YEAR OF THE 1668 00:52:24,001 --> 00:52:28,000 YEAR OF THE DROUGHT. 1669 00:52:28,001 --> 00:52:30,000 BU 1670 00:52:30,001 --> 00:52:32,000 WHAT, 10 MONTHS AND SOMEHOW 1671 00:52:32,001 --> 00:52:33,000 IT'S HIS PROBLEM. 1672 00:52:33,001 --> 00:52:36,000 W 1673 00:52:36,001 --> 00:52:37,000 COME TO TOWN AND DID HAVE A 1674 00:52:37,001 --> 00:52:39,000 SECRE 1675 00:52:39,001 --> 00:52:41,000 HAVE A SECRETARY OF COMMERCE, 1676 00:52:41,001 --> 00:52:42,000 THEY IMMED 1677 00:52:42,001 --> 00:52:43,000 ATTENTION ON THIS PROBLEM. 1678 00:52:43,001 --> 00:52:45,000 AND WHAT DID THEY DO? 1679 00:52:45,001 --> 00:52:46,000 THEY MET WITH THE CROSS-SECTION 1680 00:52:46,001 --> 00:52:48,000 OF OUR DELEGATION TO SEE HOW 1681 00:52:48,001 --> 00:52:49,000 THEY COULD BRING THE DEPARTMENT 1682 00:52:49,001 --> 00:52:50,000 OF COMMERCE, THE DEPARTMENT OF 1683 00:52:50,001 --> 00:52:52,000 INTERIOR TOGETHER, THE BUREAU 1684 00:52:52,001 --> 00:52:54,000 OF R WILDLIFE SERVICE. 1685 00:52:54,001 --> 00:52:56,000 THEY SENT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS 1686 00:52:56,001 --> 00:52:57,000 TO THE VALEY TO TRY TO GET 1687 00:52:57,001 --> 00:52:59,000 RELIEF TO FARMERS AND THEY 1688 00:52:59,001 --> 00:53:00,000 SUPPORTED OUR EFFORTS. 1689 00:53:00,001 --> 00:53:01,000 I SUPPORTED THE EFFORTS TO 1690 00:53:01,001 --> 00:53:06,000 CHANGE THE LAW THAT I WROTE 10 1691 00:53:06,001 --> 00:53:08,000 CAN HAVE 1692 00:53:08,001 --> 00:53:09,000 EAST TO WEST IN THE VALLEY. 1693 00:53:09,001 --> 00:53:11,000 THAT'S PEOPLE WORKING TOGETHER. 1694 00:53:11,001 --> 00:53:12,000 THAT'S NOT PEOPLE JUST STANDING 1695 00:53:12,001 --> 00:53:14,000 BACK AND SNIPING BILLS THEY 1696 00:53:14,001 --> 00:53:16,000 COME THROUGH AND PRETEND THEY 1697 00:53:16,001 --> 00:53:17,000 WANT TO MAKE POLICY OR THEY 1698 00:53:17,001 --> 00:53:19,000 WANT TO CHANGE POLICY. 1699 00:53:19,001 --> 00:53:20,000 THAT'S JUST POLITICAL SNIPING. 1700 00:53:20,001 --> 00:53:22,000 BUT IT'S SOMETHING THEY CHOSE 1701 00:53:22,001 --> 00:53:23,000 NOT TO SNIPE ON ANY REPUBLICAN 1702 00:53:23,001 --> 00:53:25,000 BILL. 1703 00:53:25,001 --> 00:53:26,000 THEY JUST DECIDED THEY WOULD 1704 00:53:26,001 --> 00:53:27,000 SNIPE ON THIS BILL. 1705 00:53:27,001 --> 00:53:29,000 BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, AT 1706 00:53:29,001 --> 00:53:30,000 THE END OF THE DAY THIS 1707 00:53:30,001 --> 00:53:34,000 LEGISLATION IS ABOUT WHETHER OR 1708 00:53:34,001 --> 00:53:36,000 THE FUTURE, WHETHER OR NOT WE 1709 00:53:36,001 --> 00:53:37,000 CAN CONTINUE TO HAVE ECONOMIC 1710 00:53:37,001 --> 00:53:38,000 GROWTH, WHETHER OR NOT WE CAN 1711 00:53:38,001 --> 00:53:42,000 USE THE TECHNOLOGY THAT'S NOW 1712 00:53:42,001 --> 00:53:45,000 AVAILABLE TO US, TO PROVIDE FOR 1713 00:53:45,001 --> 00:53:46,000 RECYCLING, TO PROVIDE FOR REUSE 1714 00:53:46,001 --> 00:53:54,000 OF WATER. 1715 00:53:54,001 --> 00:53:55,000 WATER FOR 24,000 HOUSEHOLDS. 1716 00:53:55,001 --> 00:53:58,000 THAT'S NOT COUNTING THE 1717 00:53:58,001 --> 00:53:59,000 LEGI 1718 00:53:59,001 --> 00:54:02,000 FOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, FOR 1719 00:54:02,001 --> 00:54:06,000 ORANGE COUNTY, FOR SBERNSBERN, 1720 00:54:06,001 --> 00:54:07,000 AND THE PROJECTS -- FOR 1721 00:54:07,001 --> 00:54:11,000 BERNARDINO AND THE PROJECTS. 1722 00:54:11,001 --> 00:54:13,000 THERE IS A $600 BILLION BACKLOG 1723 00:54:13,001 --> 00:54:14,000 BECAUSE THE LAST ADMINISTRATION 1724 00:54:14,001 --> 00:54:15,000 WOULDN'T RELEASE ANY MONEY. 1725 00:54:15,001 --> 00:54:17,000 WE WOULD HAVE LOVED TO HAVE THE 1726 00:54:17,001 --> 00:54:19,000 ATTENTION, WE WOULD HAVE LOVED 1727 00:54:19,001 --> 00:54:20,000 TO HAVE THE ATTENTION OF THE 1728 00:54:20,001 --> 00:54:21,000 BUSH ADMINISTRATION, THE 1729 00:54:21,001 --> 00:54:22,000 SECRETARY OF INTERIOR TO HELP 1730 00:54:22,001 --> 00:54:23,000 SOLVE THIS PROBLEM. 1731 00:54:23,001 --> 00:54:25,000 WHAT DID THEY DO? 1732 00:54:25,001 --> 00:54:27,000 WHAT DID HE DO? 1733 00:54:27,001 --> 00:54:29,000 THEY LET SOME UNDERSECRETARY 1734 00:54:29,001 --> 00:54:31,000 WANDER AROUND CHANGING THE 1735 00:54:31,001 --> 00:54:32,000 SCIENCE SO WE LOST ALMOST 18 1736 00:54:32,001 --> 00:54:33,000 MONTHS. 1737 00:54:33,001 --> 00:54:34,000 AND WE HAD TO GO BACK TO REDO 1738 00:54:34,001 --> 00:54:35,000 AL OF THE SCIENCE BECAUSE THEY 1739 00:54:35,001 --> 00:54:37,000 CHANGED IT AND THEY GOT CAUGHT 1740 00:54:37,001 --> 00:54:39,000 AT IT. 1741 00:54:39,001 --> 00:54:41,000 CRIMINAL CHARGES WERE PENDING 1742 00:54:41,001 --> 00:54:42,000 AT ONE POINT. 1743 00:54:42,001 --> 00:54:44,000 SO WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT 1744 00:54:44,001 --> 00:54:45,000 HERE? 1745 00:54:45,001 --> 00:54:47,000 THE SUGGESTION THAT SOMEHOW 1746 00:54:47,001 --> 00:54:48,000 THIS ALL COMES TOGETHER AROUND 1747 00:54:48,001 --> 00:54:51,000 THIS BILL IS TO FORGET HISTORY, 1748 00:54:51,001 --> 00:54:53,000 TO FORGET THE INATTENTION TO 1749 00:54:53,001 --> 00:54:55,000 THIS PROBLEM WE DEALT WOFERE 1750 00:54:55,001 --> 00:54:56,000 THE LAST EIG YEARS AND TO 1751 00:54:56,001 --> 00:54:57,000 SUGGEST THAT SOMETHING THAT 1752 00:54:57,001 --> 00:55:00,000 THIS CAN ALL BE SETTLED HERE. 1753 00:55:00,001 --> 00:55:03,000 WHAT THIS BILL CAN DO IS MAKE A 1754 00:55:03,001 --> 00:55:07,000 MAJOR CONTRIBUTION TO RELEAVING THE URBAN PRESSURE ON THE 1755 00:55:07,001 --> 00:55:11,000 SYSTEM BY CREATING THIS AND RECYCLING OF WATER. 1756 00:55:11,001 --> 00:55:14,000 AND THAT'S WHAT MY COLLEAGUES 1757 00:55:14,001 --> 00:55:16,000 -- PROJECTS ON THE OTHER SIDE 1758 00:55:16,001 --> 00:55:17,000 OF THE A 1759 00:55:17,001 --> 00:55:20,000 WERE CONTRIBUTING. 1760 00:55:20,001 --> 00:55:21,000 THIS IS ONE PIECE. 1761 00:55:21,001 --> 00:55:23,000 WE HOPE IT FWROSE. 1762 00:55:23,001 --> 00:55:24,000 WE HOPE IT BECOMES MORE 1763 00:55:24,001 --> 00:55:25,000 VALUABLE. 1764 00:55:25,001 --> 00:55:26,000 IT'S BIPARTISAN AND HAS BEEN 1765 00:55:26,001 --> 00:55:28,000 FROM THE VERY BEGINNING. 1766 00:55:28,001 --> 00:55:29,000 WHEN I ASKED FOR STIMULUS MONEY 1767 00:55:29,001 --> 00:55:30,000 TO GO TO RECYCLING, I ASKED THE 1768 00:55:30,001 --> 00:55:32,000 ADMINISTRATION, I SAID, DO IT 1769 00:55:32,001 --> 00:55:33,000 ON THE BASIS OF THE PRIORITIES. 1770 00:55:33,001 --> 00:55:34,000 DO IT AS THEY'RE STANDING IN 1771 00:55:34,001 --> 00:55:36,000 LINE. 1772 00:55:36,001 --> 00:55:37,000 SOME CITIES HAVE BEEN WAITING A 1773 00:55:37,001 --> 00:55:39,000 LONG TIME FOR THIS. 1774 00:55:39,001 --> 00:55:40,000 THEY MAY BE FURTHER A 1775 00:55:40,001 --> 00:55:41,000 JUST LET THEM COME AS THEY COME 1776 00:55:41,001 --> 00:55:43,000 UP IN LINE. 1777 00:55:43,001 --> 00:55:44,000 THIS ISN'T PARTISAN. 1778 00:55:44,001 --> 00:55:45,000 THIS IS ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT 1779 00:55:45,001 --> 00:55:48,000 PEOPLE WANT TO SOLVE PROBLEMS. 1780 00:55:48,001 --> 00:55:50,000 YOU WANT TO MAKE POL 1781 00:55:50,001 --> 00:55:51,000 POINTS? 1782 00:55:51,001 --> 00:55:52,000 ALL WELL AND GOOD, BUT THE 1783 00:55:52,001 --> 00:55:54,000 CIRCUMSTANCES WON'T CHANGE, THE 1784 00:55:54,001 --> 00:55:56,000 CIRCUMSTANCES WON'T CHANGE ACROSS OUR STATE. 1785 00:55:56,001 --> 00:55:58,000 I URGE ALL MY COLLEAGUES TO 1786 00:55:58,001 --> 00:55:59,000 SUPPORT THIS LEGISLATION, AND I 1787 00:55:59,001 --> 00:56:00,000 YIELD BACK THE BALANCE OF MY 1788 00:56:00,001 --> 00:56:01,000 TIME. 1789 00:56:01,001 --> 00:56:03,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1790 00:56:03,001 --> 00:56:04,000 GENTLEMAN YIELDS BACK THE 1791 00:56:04,001 --> 00:56:05,000 BALANCE OF HIS TIME. 1792 00:56:05,001 --> 00:56:07,000 ALL TIME FOR DEBATE HAS 1793 00:56:07,001 --> 00:56:09,000 EXPIRED. PURSUANT TO THE HOUSE 1794 00:56:09,001 --> 00:56:10,000 RESOLUTION 830, THE PREVIOUS 1795 00:56:10,001 --> 00:56:12,000 QUESTION IS OERED ON THE 1796 00:56:12,001 --> 00:56:13,000 BI 1797 00:56:13,001 --> 00:56:14,000 THE QUESTION IS ON ENGROSSMENT 1798 00:56:14,001 --> 00:56:16,000 AND THIRD READING OF THE BILL. 1799 00:56:16,001 --> 00:56:18,000 THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. THOSE OPPOSED, NO. 1800 00:56:18,001 --> 00:56:19,000 THE AYES HAVE IT. 1801 00:56:19,001 --> 00:56:21,000 THIRD READING. 1802 00:56:21,001 --> 00:56:23,000 THE CLERK: 1803 00:56:23,001 --> 00:56:26,000 GROUNDWATER FACILITY TO EXPAND 1804 00:56:26,001 --> 00:56:27,000 THE BAY AREA REGIONAL WATER 1805 00:56:27,001 --> 00:56:29,000 RECYCLING PROGRAM AND FOR OTHER 1806 00:56:29,001 --> 00:56:30,000 PURPOSES. 1807 00:56:30,001 --> 00:56:32,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: FOR 1808 00:56:32,001 --> 00:56:33,000 WHA 1809 00:56:33,001 --> 00:56:34,000 FROM CALIFORNIA RISE? 1810 00:56:34,001 --> 00:56:36,000 >> MR. SPEAKER, I HAVE A MOTION 1811 00:56:36,001 --> 00:56:37,000 TO R 1812 00:56:37,001 --> 00:56:38,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: IS THE 1813 00:56:38,001 --> 00:56:39,000 GENTLEMAN OPPOSED TO THE BILL? 1814 00:56:39,001 --> 00:56:41,000 MR. NUNES: IN THE CURRENT FORM, 1815 00:56:41,001 --> 00:56:42,000 YES. 1816 00:56:42,001 --> 00:56:43,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1817 00:56:43,001 --> 00:56:45,000 CLERK WILL REPORT THE MOTION. 1818 00:56:45,001 --> 00:56:46,000 THE CLERK: MR. NUNES OF 1819 00:56:46,001 --> 00:56:47,000 CALIFORNIA MOVES TO RECOMIT 1820 00:56:47,001 --> 00:56:48,000 THE BILL H.R. 2442 TO THE 1821 00:56:48,001 --> 00:56:50,000 COMM 1822 00:56:50,001 --> 00:56:51,000 WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO REPORT THE 1823 00:56:51,001 --> 00:56:52,000 SAME BACK TO THE HOUSE FORTH 1824 00:56:52,001 --> 00:56:54,000 WITH WITH THE FOLLOWING 1825 00:56:54,001 --> 00:56:55,000 AMENDMENT -- AT THE END OF THE 1826 00:56:55,001 --> 00:56:57,000 BILL ADD THE FOLLOWING -- 1827 00:56:57,001 --> 00:56:58,000 SECTION 4, CENTRAL VALLEY 1828 00:56:58,001 --> 00:57:00,000 PROJECTS. 1829 00:57:00,001 --> 00:57:03,000 A, N 1830 00:57:03,001 --> 00:57:04,000 OR REALLOCATION OF WATER 1831 00:57:04,001 --> 00:57:06,000 NOTWITHSTANDING ANY -- 1832 00:57:06,001 --> 00:57:07,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: FOR 1833 00:57:07,001 --> 00:57:08,000 WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE GENTLEMAN 1834 00:57:08,001 --> 00:57:10,000 FROM CALIFORNIA RISE? 1835 00:57:10,001 --> 00:57:12,000 MR. MILLER: I ASK THAT 1836 00:57:12,001 --> 00:57:13,000 MOTION TO RECOMMIT CONTAINS A 1837 00:57:13,001 --> 00:57:16,000 NONGERMANE INSTRUCTION UNDER 1838 00:57:16,001 --> 00:57:18,000 CLAUSE 7. 1839 00:57:18,001 --> 00:57:20,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1840 00:57:20,001 --> 00:57:21,000 GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA 1841 00:57:21,001 --> 00:57:24,000 RAISES A POINT OF ORDER. 1842 00:57:24,001 --> 00:57:25,000 BE HEARD ON THE POINT OF ORDER? 1843 00:57:25,001 --> 00:57:36,000 . 1844 00:57:36,001 --> 00:57:38,000 . 1845 00:57:38,001 --> 00:57:42,000 NUNENUN 1846 00:57:42,001 --> 00:57:44,000 IS PRETTY SIMPLE AND WHAT WE 1847 00:57:44,001 --> 00:57:49,000 HAVE BEFORE US IS LEGISLATION 1848 00:57:49,001 --> 00:57:52,000 THAT IS IDENTICAL TO LEGISLATION 1849 00:57:52,001 --> 00:57:54,000 2003 WITH 1850 00:57:54,001 --> 00:57:59,000 BIPARTISAN SUPPORT AND I WOULD 1851 00:57:59,001 --> 00:58:01,000 HOPE YOU WOULD MAKE IT 1852 00:58:01,001 --> 00:58:02,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: ARE 1853 00:58:02,001 --> 00:58:03,000 THERE ANY FURTHER MEMBERS WHO 1854 00:58:03,001 --> 00:58:05,000 WISH TO SPEAK ON THE POINT OF 1855 00:58:05,001 --> 00:58:07,000 ORDER? 1856 00:58:07,001 --> 00:58:08,000 MR. MILLER: THAT PREVIOUS ACTION 1857 00:58:08,001 --> 00:58:10,000 OF CONGRESS DOES NOT MAKE IT 1858 00:58:10,001 --> 00:58:12,000 GERMANE TO THIS LEGISLATION. 1859 00:58:12,001 --> 00:58:13,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1860 00:58:13,001 --> 00:58:14,000 CHAIR IS PREPARED TO RULE. 1861 00:58:14,001 --> 00:58:18,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM MR. MILLER, 1862 00:58:18,001 --> 00:58:20,000 MAKES A POINT OF ORDER THAT 1863 00:58:20,001 --> 00:58:21,000 MOTION TO RECOMMIT IS NOT 1864 00:58:21,001 --> 00:58:23,000 GERMANE. 1865 00:58:23,001 --> 00:58:25,000 IT AMENDS THE RECLAMATION AND 1866 00:58:25,001 --> 00:58:26,000 WASTE WATER AND GROUND WATER 1867 00:58:26,001 --> 00:58:30,000 STUDY ACT. 1868 00:58:30,001 --> 00:58:31,000 THE BILL AUTHORIZES SIX NEW 1869 00:58:31,001 --> 00:58:34,000 WATER RECYCLING PARTNERSHIPS AND 1870 00:58:34,001 --> 00:58:36,000 MODIFIES TWO EXISTIN PARTNERSHIPS. 1871 00:58:36,001 --> 00:58:38,000 THE AMENDMENT OFFERED BY THE 1872 00:58:38,001 --> 00:58:39,000 GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA SEEKS 1873 00:58:39,001 --> 00:58:42,000 TO ADDRESS THE CENTRAL VALLEY 1874 00:58:42,001 --> 00:58:44,000 PROJECT. 1875 00:58:44,001 --> 00:58:46,000 PROVIDES THAT NO PROPOSITION ON 1876 00:58:46,001 --> 00:58:48,000 A SUBJECT DIFFERENT FROM THAT 1877 00:58:48,001 --> 00:58:49,000 UNDER CONSIDERATION SHALL BE 1878 00:58:49,001 --> 00:58:50,000 ADMITTED UNDER COLOR OF THE 1879 00:58:50,001 --> 00:58:52,000 AMENDMENT. 1880 00:58:52,001 --> 00:58:54,000 ONE OF THE CENTRAL TEN EVENTS OF 1881 00:58:54,001 --> 00:58:55,000 THE GERMANENESS RULE, THE 1882 00:58:55,001 --> 00:58:57,000 AMENDMENT SHOULD RELATE TO THE 1883 00:58:57,001 --> 00:59:00,000 SUBJECT MATTER. 1884 00:59:00,001 --> 00:59:01,000 THE BILL IS CONFINED TO WATER 1885 00:59:01,001 --> 00:59:04,000 RECYCLING PROJECTS. 1886 00:59:04,001 --> 00:59:06,000 THE AMENDMENT 1887 00:59:06,001 --> 00:59:07,000 VAKET RELATED TO THE CENTRAL 1888 00:59:07,001 --> 00:59:10,000 VALLEY PROJECT. 1889 00:59:10,001 --> 00:59:12,000 THE AMENDMENT FALLS OUTSIDE THE 1890 00:59:12,001 --> 00:59:13,000 UNDERLYING MEASURE AND IS NOT 1891 00:59:13,001 --> 00:59:15,000 GERMANE. 1892 00:59:15,001 --> 00:59:16,000 THE POINT OF ORDER IS SUSTAINED. 1893 00:59:16,001 --> 00:59:22,000 FOR WHAT PURPOSE DOES THE 1894 00:59:22,001 --> 00:59:24,000 GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA RISE? 1895 00:59:24,001 --> 00:59:26,000 THE QUESTION IS SHALL THE 1896 00:59:26,001 --> 00:59:28,000 DECISION OF THE CHAIR STAND AS 1897 00:59:28,001 --> 00:59:31,000 THE JUDGMENT OF THE HOUSE. 1898 00:59:31,001 --> 00:59:34,000 FOR WHAT PURPOS 1899 00:59:34,001 --> 00:59:36,000 MR. MILLER: MOVE TO TABLE. 1900 00:59:36,001 --> 00:59:38,000 THE SPEAKER PRO TEMPORE: THE 1901 00:59:38,001 --> 00:59:40,000 QUESTION IS ON THE MOTION TO TABLE. 1902 00:59:40,001 --> 00:59:42,000 THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. THOSE 1903 00:59:42,001 --> 00:59:45,000 OPPOSED, NO. IN THOPINION OF 1904 00:59:45,001 --> 00:59:46,000 THE CHAIR, THE AYES HAVE IT. 1905 00:59:46,001 --> 00:59:48,000 THE GENTLEMAN FROM CALIFORNIA. 1906 00:59:48,001 --> 00:59:50,000 NUNESNUNES I ASK FOR THE YEAS 1907 00:59:50,001 --> 00:59:51,000 AND NAYS. 1908 00:59:51,001 --> 00:59:56,000 THE YEAS AND NAYS ARE REQUESTED. 1909 00:59:56,001 --> 00:59:59,000 THOSE FAVORING A VOTE BY THE 1910 00:59:59,001 --> 01:00:02,000 YEAS AND NAYS ARE ORDERED. MEMBERS WILL RECORD THEIR VOTES 1911 01:00:02,001 --> 01:00:04,000 BY ELECTRONIC DEVICE. T 1912 01:00:04,001 --> 01:00:07,000 15-MINUTE VOTE ON THE MOTION TO 1913 01:00:07,001 --> 01:00:08,000 TABLE WILL BE FOLLOWE 1914 01:00:08,001 --> 01:00:13,000 FIVE-MINUTE VOTE ON PASSAGE OF 1915 01:00:13,001 --> 01:00:14,000 THE BILL. 1916 01:00:14,001 --> 01:00:16,000 [CAPTIONING MADE POSSIBLE BY THE 1917 01:00:16,001 --> 01:00:17,000 NATIONAL CAPTIONING INSTITUTE, 1918 01:00:17,001 --> 01:00:18,000 INC., IN COOPERATION WITH THE 1919 01:00:18,001 --> 01:00:19,000 UNITED STATES HOUSE OF 1920 01:00:19,001 --> 01:00:21,000 REPRESENT 1921 01:00:21,001 --> 01:00:23,000 ANY USE OF THE CLOSED-CAPTIONED COVERAGE OF THE HOUSE 1922 01:00:23,001 --> 01:00:24,000 PROCEEDINGS FOR POLITICAL OR 1923 01:00:24,001 --> 01:00:26,000 COMMERCIAL PURPOSES IS EXPRESSLY 1924 01:00:26,001 --> 01:01:52,000 PROHIBITED BY THE U.S. HOUSE OF