During the last session of Congress, Republicans unsuccessfully attempted for two years to get the Water and Power Subcommittee to come to Fresno to hear firsthand from the communities that have endured the devastating financial, social and environmental damage done by the government's decision to deny this region well over 200 billion gallons of water in order to indulge the pet causes of the environmental Left. A little over a year ago, Republicans held an informal listening session, at which time we heard riveting testimony of the human suffering caused by this misguided policy. We heard stories of food lines in communities that once prided themselves on supplying American grocery shelves. We heard about the frustration of seeing the same produce once grown in the Central Valley of California instead imported from China, handed out at those Central Valley food lines.