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Mr. Radanovich. And that is that you are viewed as an outsider 

 coming in trying to tell agriculture what is best for agriculture 

 without the benefit of listening. What you are also doing is coming 

 from an area 



Mr. Miller. Let me reclaim my time, Mr. Chairman. 



Mr. Radanovich. No, not right now because what I want to men- 

 tion is Hetch Hetchy. 



Mr. Miller. I want to reclaim my time, Mr. Chairman. 



Mr. Radanovich. The Hetch Hetchy 



Mr. DOOLITTLE. The time belongs to Mr. Miller. 



Mr. Radanovich [continuing], area up there is providing 30 — ^you 

 are paying $30,000 for water 



Mr. Miller. Mr. Chairman 



Mr. Radanovich [continuing], coming out of the Hetch Hetchy 

 Valley which is comparable to the Yosemite Valley, and my state- 

 ment to you, Mr. Miller, is 



Mr. DOOLITTLE. The time does belong to the gentleman. 



Mr. Radanovich [continuing], clean up your own backyard before 

 you come into my valley and try to tell my ag fellows how to farm 

 and what is right on water policy in California. Clean up your own 

 backyard first. 



Mr. Miller. Mr. Chairman, can I claim my time? 



Mr. Radanovich. May we be excused? 



Mr. Miller. Mr. Chairman, I want to reclaim the time the gen- 

 tleman took from me. 



Mr. DOOLITTLE. Mr. Miller asks for unanimous consent to have 

 30 extra seconds, and just before you go, may I suggest following 

 this exchange that we try and direct our comments to the wit- 

 nesses because we will have plenty of opportunity to air these is- 

 sues. Mr. Miller. 



Mr. Miller. Well, I really resent the fact that as an elected offi- 

 cial from California I am viewed as an outsider. This is about the 

 state 



Mr. Radanovich. You certainly are. When you attack agri- 

 culture, sir, you are viewed as an outsider to the San Joaquin Val- 

 ley. 



Mr. DOOLITTLE. The gentleman does have the time. 



Mr. Radanovich. Then if he is going to attack me, I request a 

 response then. 



Mr. Miller. You have got five minutes coming. You can talk 

 until hell freezes over. 



Mr. Radanovich. Sir, fire away then. 



Mr. Miller. The fact of the matter is that my constituents are 

 under contract with the Central Valley Project— I think the first 

 urban contract with the Central Valley Project. The fact is that 

 water diversions for the benefit of agriculture out of the delta — see, 

 there is no natural leak in the delta. It goes to the Pacific Ocean. 

 We put a pipe in. We sent you a couple of million acre feet of 

 water. The people of the State of California decided to do that. This 

 nation decided to do that. 



That all has impact on the livelihoods, on the recreation, on the 

 lifestyle, on the standard of living of millions of people in the San 

 Francisco Bay area — of millions of people in the San Francisco Bay 

 area. So to suggest that somehow that they should be bystanders 



