This is a truly astounding hearing. I get a bit backed up listening to all our climate change hearings, and I am just up to Wednesday's now. I was expecting this Bingaman hearing to be covering more of how to deal with our drought issues in the West and Southwest associated with climate change following up from a couple this comittee had had earlier this month.
Instead, a bombshell.
Nobody in the Navajo Nation in New Mexico has running water! The Bush administration has clearly stonewalled this for 5 years.
Are we going to abandon people in the desert?
The cost? A measly billion. As Senator Bingaman points out this is far less than we spend on Halliburton the unfortunate Iraqis water problems!
You will hear the most astounding weasly shillyshallying by the BushBot at this hearing. You have to watch it. Your Senator is a click away at congress.org or a phone call away at (202) 224 3121!
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Full Committee Hearing: S. 1171 (Hearing Room SD-366)
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
02:30 PM
Energy Committee Hearing Room - SD-366
Please be advised that a hearing has been scheduled before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. The hearing will be held on Wednesday, June 27, 2007, at 2:30 p.m., in room SD-366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
The purpose of the hearing is to receive testimony on S. 1171, a bill to amend the Colorado River Storage Project Act and Public Law 87-483; to authorize the construction and rehabilitation of water infrastructure in Northwestern New Mexico; to authorize the use of the reclamation fund to fund the Reclamation Water Settlements Fund; to authorize the conveyance of certain Reclamation land and infrastructure; to authorize the Commissioner of Reclamation to provide for the delivery of water; and to resolve the Navajo Nation’s water rights claims in the San Juan River basin in New Mexico.
Witnesses
Panel 1
Hon. Robert Johnson BushBot weasel Commissioner of Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Carl Artman - Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of Interior
Panel 2
Mr. John D'Antonio - New Mexico State Engineer
Joe Shirley - President, Navajo Nation
Herb Guenther - Director, Arizona Department of Water Resources
Patricia Lundstrom - Executive Director, Northwest New Mexico Council of Governments
Mark Sanchez - Executive Director, Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority