Andrea Joy Campbell: “I am joined by Senator Bingaman, Senator Domenici, and Senator Allard in asking the Senate to support our version of the…”

“I am joined by Senator Bingaman, Senator Domenici, and Senator Allard in asking the Senate to support our version of the Animas-La Plata water project by voting to table the Feingold amendment. Our version of S. 2508 is truly bipartisan. By the way, it is not an expanded project. This is a much more reduced project. The Republican Governor and the Democratic attorney general of Colorado strongly oppose the Feingold amendment. By voting to table the Feingold amendment, we will leave intact a bipartisan version of S. 2508, supported by the administration, the States of Colorado and New Mexico, the Ute tribes of Colorado, the Navajo nation, and rural and municipal water users of southwest Colorado and northwest New Mexico. In doing so, we will be saving the taxpayers over $400 million by downsizing the currently planned Animas-La Plata water project. If the Feingold amendment is not tabled, most of those entities will withdraw their crucial support for the historic compromise and it will be dead.”