speaker -- mr. nunes: thank you, mr. speaker. listening to the rhetoric from the other side, i'm reminded about the old saying from the soviet union. if you tell a lie long enough, eventually people will believe you. there's hardly anything coming from the other side of the aisle that's even remotely close to the truth. i don't have enough time to go through it all, but let me just hit the high points. number one, let's start with the facts on the table. most of the population in california lives in the -- greater san francisco bay area or los angeles. where most of the democrats represent. which is the home of the 1% in california. the poor people that they continue to make more poor are my constituents because they've taken their water and dumped our water out into the ocean. meanwhile, let's take the example of san francisco in the greater bay area. they get their water not only from the delta but also because the united states congress passed legislation in the early part of the last century that allows water to be piped over

at this time i'd like to yield to the gentleman from california, mr. nunes. mr. nunes: i thank the gentleman from idaho, my good friend. i want to echo what you were saying, mr. simpson. tom latham actually is a guy who came here, doesn't seek the lime light but seeks to get things done. and it's tough for me to say this about him because he is my good friend and he's going to rip me about this later, but he really does try to get things done. you don't see him running out to the tv's, to the news show, you don't see him running out and holding press conferences. what you do see is someone who works and i've had numerous opportunities, i can tell you that when i first aarrived here to washington, tom was one of the first people who came up to he nd talked to me about -- asked if he could help me in any way, he was a farmer from obviously the great state of iowa and he knew that i was from a -- a farmer from the great state of california. we shared about what we had in common. and then he asked how he could be helpful. and from day one tom's been one of my best fri

speaker -- mr. nunes: thank you, mr. speaker. listening to the rhetoric from the other side, i'm reminded about the old saying from the soviet union. if you tell a lie long enough, eventually people will believe you. there's hardly anything coming from the other side of the aisle that's even remotely close to the truth. i don't have enough time to go through it all, but let me just hit the high points. number one, let's start with the facts on the table. most of the population in california lives in the -- greater san francisco bay area or los angeles. where most of the democrats represent. which is the home of the 1% in california. the poor people that they continue to make more poor are my constituents because they've taken their water and dumped our water out into the ocean. meanwhile, let's take the example of san francisco in the greater bay area. they get their water not only from the delta but also because the united states congress passed legislation in the early part of the last century that allows water to be piped over

at this time i'd like to yield to the gentleman from california, mr. nunes. mr. nunes: i thank the gentleman from idaho, my good friend. i want to echo what you were saying, mr. simpson. tom latham actually is a guy who came here, doesn't seek the lime light but seeks to get things done. and it's tough for me to say this about him because he is my good friend and he's going to rip me about this later, but he really does try to get things done. you don't see him running out to the tv's, to the news show, you don't see him running out and holding press conferences. what you do see is someone who works and i've had numerous opportunities, i can tell you that when i first aarrived here to washington, tom was one of the first people who came up to he nd talked to me about -- asked if he could help me in any way, he was a farmer from obviously the great state of iowa and he knew that i was from a -- a farmer from the great state of california. we shared about what we had in common. and then he asked how he could be helpful. and from day one tom's been one of my best fri

that was in the last congress, mr. nunes' bill. in this congress, mr. valadao took that bill, dusted it off, made two minor changes, and we brought it to the floor and once again, it passed with bipartisan support. so mr. speaker, that is pretty good example of what regular order is. all we said by the way is, ok, this is our position. this is the house's position. it's if the senate has a different position, pass the bill. nothing complex about that. and to the credit of senator feinstein primarily, there was a bill that passed with unanimous consent. i might add, however, mr. speaker, that there were no hearings held on the senate bill in the senate. there were no hearings held on the senate bill. however, because of the drought in california, many western senators, primarily republican western senators, when asked, presumably by senator feinstein, if this bill could go by unanimous consent, they said yes. but there are some conditions that we ought to look at before it finally becomes law. and their principle concern was in the -- principal concern w