Jerry Moran: “to give a specific example, and the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Davis] is the last to raise the point, so let me direct…”

“to give a specific example, and the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Davis] is the last to raise the point, so let me direct it at him, and he is particularly familiar with the situation that affects all of us in this body because he represented a lot of constituents last year when we had a boiled-water alert. We could not use the drinking water in this area. The Members of Congress that were here last year remember we had to get bottled water. Well, that is because we had excess turbidity in the water. That problem was not adequately covered by the existing Clean Water Act. It has to be covered by the new authorization. It was due to a runoff upstream, not in the District of Columbia that was affected, not in Fairfax County, who had to drink the water, and it was the District of Columbia and Fairfax and Arlington who had to drink the water, but the problem was in another jurisdiction that really has no particular vested interest in spending the money to prevent that runoff. But that runoff meant that we could not use drinking water in this jurisdiction. That is the problem, and it was not adequately addressed by the Clean Water Act. It has to fall under the new unfunded-mandates legislation because it is new activity, and we do not have the money to fully fund it. That is what we are trying to get at.”