Benghazi interview and weekend reading

I recently appeared on Fox and Friends to discuss the creation of the new Benghazi investigative committee. Click on the picture below to watch the clip:

 

Separately, the Nunes Digest is updated for your weekend reading. Click on the picture below:

 

Discussing the news with Ray Appleton

I had a wide-ranging interview with Ray Appleton this week that hit on Ukraine, al Qaeda, Syria, the Benghazi investigation, water, the Keystone XL pipeline, Edward Snowden, tax reform, and other topics. You can listen to the interview here.

Separately, the Nunes Digest is updated for your weekend reading here.

Get your weekend reading at the Nunes Digest

The Nunes Digest is updated for your weekend reading here.

Follow the headlines with the Nunes Digest

The Nunes Digest is updated for your weekend reading here.

Comments on tomorrow's water rally

 

Although I’ll be in Washington, I hope there will be a good turnout at the water rally slated for tomorrow at 6:30 pm at Tulare’s International Agri-Center. I was surprised, however, to see that the event’s sponsors include Friant Water Authority and other groups that have not supported H.R. 3964, which is the only California water bill this Congress has passed in either the House or the Senate. As the event flyer makes clear, a zero-allocation in the East Side is a major problem – so why don’t these groups back the one bill that will finally resolve the water crisis? 

Let’s take a short stroll down memory lane: here is a letter I sent to Friant farmers in 2008 casting doubt on Friant’s claim that the San Joaquin River Settlement would provide water “certainty” and end litigation by environmental activists. (Yes, Friant lawyers and lobbyists actually made that argument.) And here is a letter I sent earlier this year reminding farmers that Friant did not support the previous House-passed water bill, H.R. 1837.  

It’s possible that Friant will be persuaded at tomorrow’s rally to support the House bill or to finally reveal its own proposed solution to the water crisis – but I doubt it. (If you missed them, you can see clips of me arguing for H.R. 3964 on the House floor here.)  

We could really use allies who stand up and fight for Central Valley water rights – because we’re not only battling the left-wing politicians, and the environmentalist activists, and the lawyers, and the judges, and the bureaucrats, but the media, too. Here’s a great example: a supposed news story by the L.A. Times essentially advocating the confiscation of all our remaining water. It reads like a press release from the National Resources Defense Council.      

As shown in the past, attempts to appease these radicals don’t work – those efforts always end up with us getting less water. The only option left is to fight. And for me, the fight goes on – as it does for countless thirsty families and farmers throughout the Valley.

San Joaquin Valley tells DC: “We need water!”

I’d like to thank the several thousand Central Valley residents who joined me and other Members of Congress on Wednesday for a water rally in Fresno. It was a great, energized crowd, and it sent a loud and clear message to the Senate, the Governor, the President, and the nation that we can’t wait any longer for action on the water crisis. Afterward, the House Natural Resources Committee held a field hearing on the crisis before a standing-room only audience.

You can read my opening remarks from the hearing here, and listen to Ray Appleton, John Batchelor, and I discuss the day’s events here. Additionally, you can watch a Fox News report on the rally and hearing by clicking on the picture below:

 

 

Separately, the Nunes Digest is updated for your weekend reading here.