If the magazine vote passes all the way (Senate, etc.), it will go well with the drought forecast for future revenues and debt. Salazar spoke a prediction of three or four decades of drought ahead (wanting more fed funding, no doubt).
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/expert_assessment/seasonal_drought.html
I’ve thought about Obama/Fed payoff $$ has crossed my mind more than once for Colorado for being good little Dems.