03/03/2015
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"Would you agree that it is not permissible under the law to take the water first and then get a legal authority later?"
"It is pretty obvious to me you need to be thinking about it as you go through this process."
"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."