[StBernard] Landrieu Comments on WRDA Veto Threat

[Westley Annis]

Landrieu Comments on 

WRDA Veto Threat

 

WASHINGTON - United States Senator Mary L. Landrieu today made the following
statement after the Administration renewed its veto threat of the Water
Resources Development Act (WRDA) in a letter to House Transportation and
Infrastructure Chairman James Oberstar, D-Minn. In the letter, the
administration called projects in the bill "unaffordable and unnecessary."
The WRDA conference report has been completed, and the bill needs a final
vote in the House and Senate before being sent to the President's desk.

Sen. Landrieu said:

"Our delegation has worked very hard and in good faith to put forward
critical and vital hurricane protection and navigation projects in the WRDA
bill. Louisiana currently has 17.5 percent of the projects in the bill and a
veto of this important legislation would be a blow to our recovery and
long-term hurricane protection efforts. I would strongly urge the President
to reconsider this position.

 

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