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kind of homework, and this kind of commitment out in our state, 

 talking to people on the ground — a rare moment in your relation- 

 ships with the U.S. Senate. 



Mr. DOOLITTLE. Well, in the interest of further airing these is- 

 sues, let us excuse the Senator and thank him for the time he has 

 given. 



Senator Bradley. Mr. Chairman, thank you very much. When I 

 was Chairing these subcommittee hearings on the Senate side, I 

 used to have a general rule. If I couldn't get the politicians off in 

 half an hour, I was in trouble. 



Mr. DOOLITTLE. Thank you. 



Mr. Radanovich. Mr. Chairman? 



Mr. DOOLITTLE. Yes. Mr. Radanovich. 



Mr. Radanovich. For the record, I would like to mark the ab- 

 sence of California Senators Boxer 2ind Feinstein at this hearing. 



Mr. DOOLEY. Mr. Chairman, is that a unanimous consent re- 

 quest? I mean, it just is remarkable to me when we are talking 

 about trying to build a consensus and trying to move forward in a 

 constructive fashion that one of my colleagues from Cgilifomia 

 would try to bring this up in order to try to create some tjrpe of 

 political division. And I just don't see any constructive 



Mr. Radanovich. No. It is more remarkable to me that some- 

 thing so important to the State of California is not represented by 

 California Senators. 



Mr. DOOLITTLE. Well, let me just urge us to move on here. We 

 are going to get into the issues, and let us call up our first panel. 

 And while they are coming up— we have been into this hearing now 

 about an hour smd a half, and we have our first panel. While they 

 are coming up, the Chair would like to suggest some ground rules 

 one of which is when the votes come, which they surely will, it will 

 be my intent to recess, go to the vote, and come back rather than 

 try and run the hearing during the vote. 



Secondly, and if members feel differently, now is the time to ex- 

 press yourselves. We knew this was goin^ to be a long hearing, and 

 we had thought about maybe taking off an hour for lunch, but I 

 think the Chair almost is prepared to recommend that we just keep 

 on going now. When the votes occur, you can grab something over 

 off the Floor. Is that acceptable to people? OK. 



I know we are long into this, but the Chair has the unanimous 

 consent request to speak to Mr. Beard about a situation that has 

 just occurred on Monday in my district with the damage to Folsom 

 Dam, and a tremendous amount of water is being released. And I 

 would like to ask unanimous consent for five minutes to engage 

 Mr. Beard in questions concerning that matter before we get back 

 to the CVP Act. 



Mr. Miller. Reserving my right to object, Mr. Chairman, and I 

 do so only to ask you whether or not you would not plan to credit 

 the 400,000 acre feet of water against the 800,000 feet of water 

 that we are losing. I know it is a close call for a lot of people in 

 the state right now, but this was not designed. 



Mr. DOOLITTLE. Well, if there is no objection, Mr. Beard, thank 

 you for being here. You are soon to be leaving the service of the 

 government, and we appreciate your willingness to testify today. 

 Could you tell us about this situation of Folsom? For example, I 



