[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6134]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




       WE NEED TO DO MORE TO BUILD THE WATER SUPPLY FOR THE WEST

  (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, this week, we made some important strides 
on water in the West, especially in the time of drought we have in 
California.
  We need to do much more to build the kind of supply that is necessary 
to get out of the drought. Unfortunately, the bureaucracy doesn't 
reward that with slow permit process or even some of the things we had 
to battle this week, such as deferring more water for fish that isn't 
even in records of decision or been feasibly shown to be scientifically 
sound.
  At the same time we have to curb the bureaucracy, we have to be 
positive moving forward with new storage projects, such as Sites 
Reservoir, such as other obstacles we have in the State of California 
and throughout the West to address this drought, not just take it to 
the ``church of climate change'' and think that is the whole problem.
  We are going to have to be proactive, as we have been in previous 
generations.

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