House Proceeding 10-15-09 on Oct 15th, 2009 :: 0:20:55 to 0:23:35
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John Campbell: crisis on the valley and not shying away from this crisis. congressman cardoza agrees with this statement and i'd like unanimous consent to revise and extend my remar with that i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. the gentleman from florida. mr. diaz-balart: madam speaker, i yield three minutes to my friend from california, mr. campbell. the speaker pro tempore: the

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Speech By: John Campbell

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John Campbell: gentleman is recognized. mr. campbell: i thank the gentleman for yielding. you know, i am a native californian, born in los angeles. in fact, i am a fourth generation californian. my family was a gold rush family in 1849. if you look back on the history of california for those 160 years, it's always been about water. where there's water, where we could get water in california there is jobs, there is growth,

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John Campbell: there's prosperity. there i and we didn't bring water to places in california, we didn't have those things. so this debate we are having now is not new for our state. but it's important for our state. and i understand why my colleagues from the bay area

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John Campbell: want this recycling program, as ha really the issue here. as my colleague, mr. miller and i have discussed, in orange county where i come from we have some of the worls leading recycling programs. they work, they're effective. we ought to do more of them in other places. but what we're talking about here is that there's other

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John Campbell: places where we need water in california. now, i don't represent the central valley, but the central valley is the breadbasket of california, arguably the country. and here are jobs disappearing and there are businesses disappearing, there are farms disappearing because of a manmade water crisis, not because of a drought, not because the water isn't vabling.

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John Campbell: it's because we don't turn on some pumps 12 months a year to provide wa so they can grow food for us and for the world. to create jobs and to feed americans and generate exports for our economy. and the water provided by those pumps 25% of the water in southern california in the l.a. area also come from the

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John Campbell: sacramento river delta where the travesty of this bil is not what is in it. it's what is not in it. is the opportuni to turn on those pumps, to provide -- which have been running 12 months a year for 50 years.

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John Campbell: it's not like this is a new idea and new environment. it's to get that water for san francisco and that's great. but let's get water for the central valley and farmers in