WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries Chairman Cliff Bentz (OR-02) held the Subcommittee’s first hearing of the 118th Congress on “Benefits and Access: The Necessity for Multiple Use of Water Resources.”
“It was an honor to gavel in and chair, for the first time, the Natural Resource Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries. Today’s hearing focused on water and oceans as essential elements of all aspects of life, and the serious damage the Biden Administration’s agencies, in dealing with matters concerning water, are causing to economies, the environment, and rural America. The hearing called out, among other issues, the Administration’s failure to identify and address barriers to water storage, its taking of vast amounts of water away from farmers without measurable benefit to fish, the selection of politically correct rather than biologically appropriate science, and the failure to incorporate peer reviewed private data regarding fish populations into agency analysis. As this Subcommittee and the 118th Congress progresses, we will remain focused on improving our use of diminishing water resources, protecting our fishermen and the fisheries that sustain them, and balancing protection of species while protecting communities.” – Chairman Cliff Bentz.
Chairman Bentz Holds First Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries Subcommittee Hearing
