[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 178 (Thursday, November 17, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H8555-H8556]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                    CALIFORNIA GOING DOWN IN FLAMES

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Madam Speaker, as I watch my home State of California go 
down in flames, literally, as we watch how we are running out of 
electricity, we are running out of water, our store shelves are having 
less and less food varieties available, our farmers being pushed out of 
business, our farmworkers being pushed out of business, as we see all 
of these things happen with mandates coming down the pike, requiring 
more and more electricity has to be renewable, what is the answer in 
California?

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  Let's tear down some hydroelectric dams in my district and Mr. Bentz' 
district; let's tear them down.
  We are going to lose green power. We are doing it over the objections 
of the people who live there, who have objected by over 70 percent to 
removal of these dams, all for an unproven environmental benefit.
  So enjoy even less electricity. Enjoy even less food grown in my 
district and Mr. Bentz' district. Enjoy even more of the crisis that is 
facing us in rural California, rural America, and on our store shelves 
and in our electrical wires due to even more unfounded environmental 
rules being forced upon us to tear down perfectly good hydroelectric 
dams. Thanks one hell of a lot.

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