Angie Craig: “If the Senator had said ``all'' water rights, I would agree with him. The Senator did not. His amendment explicitly…”

“If the Senator had said ``all'' water rights, I would agree with him. The Senator did not. His amendment explicitly singles out ``new'' water rights. It is very important that we have that understood for the record, and it is important, I think, if we are to protect these State rights and individual rights, that language comply with the bill of the senior Senator from New Mexico because it clearly sets out that whole issue. Is there a reason for a singling out of ``new'' versus the interpretation of, and excluding all existing rights?”