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Water, Wildlife and Fisheries

Democrats Deny Vote to End California’s Man-Made Drought

| Posted in Press Release

Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings and Republican Leader John Boehner reacted to the Democratic response to the California water crisis. “Today, Congress missed an historic opportunity to solve the water crisis in California. We could have begun to bring 40,000 people back to work with just one vote, but the Democratic leadership wouldn’t even let us…

Rep. Tom McClintock Named Lead Republican on the Water and Power Subcommittee

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House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) today named Rep. Tom McClintock (CA-04) as the new Ranking Member of the Water and Power Subcommittee.  McClintock will take over the position from Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05) who was recently selected to serve as Ranking Member of the Workforce Protections Subcommittee on the Education and Labor…

Bureau of Reclamation Stimulus Funds - $1 billion; Getting Answers on How Many Jobs will be Created - Priceless

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In response to a unanimous request by Republicans on the Water and Power Subcommittee, the Subcommittee will hold an oversight hearing tomorrow to examine how the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Geological Survey will spend more than $1 billion in stimulus funds. “The supposed purpose of the stimulus bill was to create jobs and immediately revive our economy. So one has to wonder why…

Ranking Member Hastings' Remarks at the Annual Meeting of the National Water Resources Association

| Posted in Op-Eds and Speeches

Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) delivered the following prepared remarks at the National Water Resources Association Annual Meeting, highlighting the Administration’s “cap-and-tax” plan and the need to recognize hydropower as a clean, renewable energy resource: “I was recently appointed by my colleagues in the House to serve as the Ranking…

California Drought Exacerbated by Man-Made Actions

| Posted in Resourceful Information

“This is still a pretty decent drought but nothing unusual…We were prepared, as usual, for the drought, but they have taken all the tools away from us."  -- Mr. Tim Quinn, Executive Director, Association of California Water Agencies, Forbes, March 17, 2009 On Tuesday, the House Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing on what federal and California state agencies are doing to…

Republicans Request Hearing on Bureau of Reclamation’s Stimulus Funding, Call for Transparency and Fiscal Accountability

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H.R.1 / Bureau of Reclamation Funding – “For an additional amount for `Water and Related Resources', $1,000,000,000.” (P.L. 111-5, Title IV) Today, Republican members of the House Natural Resources Water and Power Subcommittee sent the attached letter to Chairwoman Grace Napolitano requesting a hearing on how the Bureau of…

House Republicans Seek Transparency on how Bureau of Reclamation will Spend $1 Billion in Stimulus Funds

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H.R.1 / Bureau of Reclamation Funding – “For an additional amount for `Water and Related Resources', $1,000,000,000.” (P.L. 111-5, Title IV) Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) and 8 House Republicans sent the attached letter to Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar requesting a…