more on the house floor today with tom mcclinic tok, republican, california. >> i thank the gentleman for yielding and compliment the gentle lady from california on stating the opposite of the bill with remarkable precision. it does not repeal 20 years of california water law. it restores it by restoring the allocation that was agreed to by a broad bipartisan coalition in the bay delta accords in 1994. at the time the democratic interior secretary is bruce babbitt assured parties this would be honored by the state and federal governments. his promise was broken first by his own department and most recently when a federal court deemed the delta smelt to be more important than the livelihoods of thousands of central valley farm workers. hundreds of billions of gallons of water that these communities had already paid for and depended upon were simply expropriated and blissfully and cavalierly dumped into the pacific ocean turning much of california's fertile central valley into a dust bowl. this redeems the promise made to the people of california and restores the allocations that were a