09/28/2010
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"It is hard to have negotiations if we are looking the other way on the withdrawal rates from those two lakes."
"You have to know that maybe other Senators do not feel the problems of Alabama, Georgia and Florida as the Senators from these three States do but it is a very real situation."
"Alabama urges this Committee to strengthen the language of the Water Supply Act so that Congress' proper role in controlling local water supply uses of Federal reservoirs is maintained."
"Georgia wants Alabama to take less water than it has always received historically so that Atlanta may take more water."