[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9274]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         BUILD SITES RESERVOIR

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, at a time in the West--especially in 
California--of severe drought, we need to take immediate action to 
address the issues of water storage and of building supply that 
California and the West need for our future--for agriculture, for the 
great needs we have--that have been neglected for so many years.
  We haven't built any significant storage in California for at least 
40 years, and it is high time that, in this time of drought, we seize 
this opportunity to move forward with bipartisan legislation, such as 
what I am carrying, H.R. 4300, to build Sites Reservoir--whatever it is 
going to take--to add to our water supply in the State and for our 
Western States.
  I ask for the Congress and for the Senate to come together and get 
behind a measure to build water storage for the West.

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