actually have on-line that institute this bibliography and you can do searchs by author, subject, reen on, whatever. there's the url. i stuck in the word reservoir and it turns out there's 60 some odd articles on this. so this is not new scientific subject. i'll talk about four things. what should be done. there have been proposals for decades of what water managers should do both generally and specifically. i'm going to talk about what has been done and argue that actually, very little has been done. there has been a handful where things have been taken to improve our situation, but not many. i'm going to talk a little about what has not been done. there again there are far more examples we've done major things in water area but ignored climate change. and what shouldn't be done. there are things we should not do given our understanding of climate change and water resources. i can argue recently climate change is argued as a reason to justify something, either justifying not doing something or taking an action that we probably ought not to do and i'll give you some examples of that. s

. >> i know they could find a common language to talk about the future if they would talk to reen dowdersureen dowd suggests that shirley sherrod should be offered a job if the white white the first black president should expan, beyond his campaign security blanket, the smug kor his her a overprotective white guys surrounding him. he should give her a new job, needtor of black outreach. this white house needs one. should gowhite house need one? whether or not the job should go to shirley sherrod? >> i hope that the white house would bring in more people. would brin people that understand history and can they won't run the president. it downey hear a conversation like they have, hopefully, they afterrun to the hilltops. they can sit down and say, let's talk about this. i know after having talked to valerie jarrett, she's deeply she'sned. >> it's not black outreach. i mean, please. it's outreach on this issue for blacks and whites and people of of color. all right, we need someone for all k outreach, that's the wrong direction. >> stephen? >> i don't think creating a new don't thif black o

we know congress must do more to reen in wasteful spend -- to rein in wasteful spending. it's our job to make sure money is allocated in the appropriate way by federal agencies. we are far too accustomed to federal dollars being used inappropriately. the homeland security's office of inspector general noted that $240 million of improper expenses were charged to fema credit cards. these reports show the need for congress to to hold agencies accountable and create a system in which waste, fraud and abuse are eliminated. yesterday the house took an important step toward this goal when it passed a bill to identify, reduce and eliminate improper payments. in that same spirit my amendment today is intended to reaffirm our commitment to ensuring that federal employee in this case fema employees, spend federal moneys properly and on their intended purpose with only the best interest of the taxpayer. i urge my fellow members to support this amendment as well as the underlying bill and i thank you. i reserve the remainder of my time. the chair: the gentleman from new york reserves