Rep. Gosar Offers Toast at Water Resources Hearing: "Whiskey is for Drinking, Water is for Fighting"

Statement

Today, Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04), Vice Chairman of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans, offered the following toast before his opening statement at the subcommittee hearing examining "The 2016 California Water Supply Outlook During the El Niño and Three Years of Restricted Water Deliveries":

"We have an expression in the West that "Whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting.' Given that the hearing today is the first major hearing this year on California water, and that California and Arizona have a long history of fighting over water that dates back to at least the 1920s, I brought some whiskey, and before we get to the fighting, I would like to propose a toast:

"May God bless this hearing. May we make real progress here today so that Congress can finally provide some form of relief for drought conditions and from policies that are crippling Western communities. And finally, may extremist environmentalist groups and others who are holding back commonsense solutions and comprehensive west-wide drought relief legislation that passed the House last July, put the interests of small businesses, farmers and American families ahead of the interests of a three-inch fish. Let the fighting begin. Cheers."

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