House Proceeding 10-15-09 on Oct 15th, 2009 :: 0:30:20 to 0:31:50
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Zoe Lofgren: that is our message with th bill, that w make the decision to get the water pumping aga. i yield back -- i yield back balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from washinon reserves. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. miller: i yield three

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Speech By: Zoe Lofgren

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Zoe Lofgren: minutes to the gentlewoman from california, ms. lofgren. ms. lofgren: thank you, mr. speaker. california's in the third year of the drought. the salmon fishers are in the third year of no season. farmers are hurting, fishermen are hurng, but this bill actually helps that problem. i come from silicon valley where half of our water comes from the delta.

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Zoe Lofgren: i've heard the name san francisco mentioned. this he don't get any of their water from the delta and they don't have any projects in this bill. but silicon valley gets half its wat from the delta. and the projects that ll flow to silicon valley to reuse the water we have from our groundwater sources are going to

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Zoe Lofgren: fre up water for the delta. it will free up water for the farmers and and i count that a good thing. we can get bomb bass tick here, all of us, it hurts us when our constituents are hurt. but it is important to note that

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Zoe Lofgren: this is a solution, this is a solution. silicon valley doesn't have any farmers and it doesn't really have any commercial fishermen. we make chipping.