[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3141]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                         SENSIBLE WATER STORAGE

  (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, I am heartened to see over the weekend in a 
Sacramento Bee article that California Senator Dianne Feinstein has 
also called for pumping excess water that flows through the delta, 
despite opinions on endangered fish numbers.
  We have been talking a long time about taking that excess water and 
putting it aside in storage instead of just letting it run out to the 
ocean. I am a little frustrated we didn't get to that point earlier.
  Back in December, we had a press conference and put forth legislation 
to acknowledge that we are losing water that could be put aside in 
other storage facilities for anybody to be able to use.
  We are looking forward to working with Senator Feinstein on this and 
bringing forward sensible water storage with water we already have in 
these high-flow times.

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