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next, a hearing examining ways to increase water storage and conservation in western states we also heard about water supply infrastructure. held by a senate energy subcommittee, this is an hour. the hearing of the senate energy natural resources subcommittee on power and water will come to order. i want to apologize for being tardy. i m trying to be in a few places at once. thanks for your patience. throughout the rest, water is essential to everything we do. the infrastructure took centuries to build. and has allowed our cities to grow and our farms to prosper. without these dams and canals and reclaim water plants the american west would not be the bread basket or worldwide destination that it is today. it has taken tremendous foresight and major investment to develop the water systems that are the backbones of our western communities and businesses. they have been great investments. in my home state in arizona, what started as a $10 million federal development in ....
subcommittee on power and water will come to order. i want to apologize for being tardy. i m trying to be in a few places at once. thanks for your patience. throughout the rest, water is essential to everything we do. the infrastructure took centuries to build. and has allowed our cities to grow and our farms to prosper. without these dams and canals and reclaim water plants the american west would not be the bread basket or worldwide destination that it is today. it has taken tremendous foresight and major investment to develop the water systems that are the backbones of our western communities and businesses. they have been great investments. in my home state in arizona, what started as a $10 million federal development in 1903 laid the groundwork for today s phoenix metropolitan area shareholder now contributes $250 billion to the nation in gdp. earlier i toured all 15 counties in arizona. i saw firsthand how these major investments shaped the state. from hoover dam, ....
i know you are all very busy so we are going to jump right in our program but for those of you attending for the first time i hope you will become regular attendees. we established the forum back in the 80s to give congressional staff the opportunity to hear from expert speakers on critical topics in a bipartisan collegial atmosphere. as we always promise we have an expert speaker to address a very interesting and critical topic, what is the trump doctrine, what to expect from the current administrations foreign policies. fred flights is here to answer that question for us as someone who spent his entire life and national security positions as well as serving in the trump administration. he served for 25 years with the cia, the dia, department of state and also house intelligence committee staff. he served most recently as deputy assistant to president donald trump and chief of staff to national security advisor john bolton. this appeared in many u.s. and international ....
if you can take your seats we are going to get started. this is the subcommittee on water oceans and wildlife and we will come to order. the meeting today will hear testimony on the colorado river drought contingency plan. under committee role 4 f, any opel or statements will be limited to the chairman, ranking member, vice chair and vice ranking member. it allows us to hear from witnesses sooner and keeps members on schedule. i ask unanimous consent that all members opening statements be made part of the hearing record if they are submitted to the clerk by 5 pm today or the close of the hearing, whichever comes first. hearing no objection, it is so ordered. we also have a few members from the basin states who would like to join us on the dais for this hearing. i ask unanimous consent of the following members be allowed to sit on the dais and participate in the hearing today. representative greg stanton of arizona, representative ruben gallego from arizona, representati ....
who heads the u.s. bureau of reclamation. she was confirmed to the position in 2017. the bureau of reclamation established in 1902 is best known for constructing the dams, power plants and canals in 17 western states. good morning everyone. if you can take your seats we are going to get started. this is the subcommittee on water oceans and wildlife and we will come to order. the meeting today will hear testimony on the colorado river drought contingency plan. under committee role 4 f, any opel or statements will be limited to the chairman, ranking member, vice chair and vice ranking member. it allows us to hear from witnesses sooner and keeps members on schedule. i ask unanimous consent that all members opening statements be made part of the hearing record if they are submitted to the clerk by 5 pm today or the close of the hearing, whichever comes first. hearing no objection, it is so ordered. we also have a few members from the basin states who would like to join us ....