[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2490]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       CALIFORNIA SALMON INDUSTRY

  (Ms. SPEIER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SPEIER. Mr. Speaker, our budget is a serious document and a 
statement of our values as a Union. Americans are depending on us to 
reduce the deficit in a responsible manner while growing our economy 
and putting people back to work. But as their ``so be it, let them eat 
cake'' approach to jobs and the economy shows, our Republican 
colleagues have chosen to abandon the responsibility for recklessness.
  Now the Republicans are proposing to wipe out the California salmon 
industry and the thousands of jobs that depend on it. California's 
fishermen just made it through 3 years of unprecedented slowdown in the 
salmon industry. An estimated 23,000 jobs and $2.8 billion have been 
lost in just the last 3 years. These latest proposals threaten water 
supplies for millions, including both fishermen and farmers.
  Mr. Speaker, salmon means jobs. I have met the people who make their 
living with salmon, and they are proud of their jobs. According to 
recent studies, restoring the California bay-delta could provide 94,000 
new jobs and $5.7 billion in economic activity.

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