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

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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…