Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that a letter dated May 15, 2013, be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: Hon. Jo-Ellen Darcy, Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Army Pentagon, Washington, DC. Dear Assistant Secretary Darcy: We are writing regarding recent efforts in our committee to address concerns with the Water Supply Act of 1958 (WSA), 43 U.S.C. 390b. These concerns have arisen most prominently with respect to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' management of federal reservoirs in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint (ACF) River System and the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa (ACT) River System, where the States of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida have been engaged in a decades-long conflict over the use of water resources in their region. As committee leadership with jurisdiction over these matters, we believe in the principle that water resources conflicts of this nature should be resolved through negotiated interstate water compacts whenever possible.…”