The citizens of our county have no control or oversight over tribal representatives, development, and countless other issues.

If the Pueblo has surplus water, what does the Pueblo do with that? It is up to your discretion, right?

You are taking money in for it, but the taxpayer, who has financed the project, isn't getting it.

Why is it that Poughkeepsie is being called upon to pay for Pojoaque's water project?

But the decisions are going to be made in part by sovereign entities, over which the voters don't have any control.

Right. But given the fact that we are advancing funds, and we are assigning rights before the settlement is in place, and knowing that there is significant opposition, makes me a little hesitant.

Well, the Federal trust responsibility is to assign water rights to the reservation; it is not to pay for the project for the reservation.

I have no further questions, Madame Chairwoman.

the principal purpose of government is not to produce abundant water and power but rather to ration and manage shortages

It seems to me that is a pretty basic question if you are evaluating cost-effectiveness and particularly if you are giving any kind of serious consideration to cost-effectiveness. Don't you agree?

the last generation has dropped the objective of abundance as the principal objective of water and power policy and has instead moved now to rationing shortages.