Posted on 11/21/2014 5:29:25 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
WASHINGTON — Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California on Thursday pulled the plug on secret, high-stakes negotiations over a water bill for her drought-plagued state, saying she and fellow lawmakers will try again next year.
Feinstein’s unexpected move ends, for now, what had become an increasingly contentious fight over ambitious drought-fighting legislation whose details few people have seen.
“You’ve got to work with people to get something done,” Feinstein said in an interview. “I’m going to put together a first-day bill for the next Congress, and it can go through the regular order.”
Right up until Thursday, Feinstein and Republicans in the House of Representatives had been pushing hard to beat the Capitol Hill clock, as the lawmakers and their staffs swapped text language and haggled over details in hopes of completing a bill before a scheduled Dec. 11 adjournment. The negotiators had taken care of “a lot of low-hanging fruit,” said Rep. Doug LaMalfa, a Republican from Butte County.
Now, the clock will be reset when the 114th Congress convenes, with Republicans controlling both the Senate and the House.
“We’ve come a long way,” said Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Tulare. “These type of things happen in negotiations.”
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Seems like a lot of secret meeting talk going on, and the public left out of what would have occurred. Seems like the January period will be full of excitement.
Seems like a lot of secret meeting talk going on, and the public left out of what would have occurred. Seems like the January period will be full of excitement.
California sits beside the largest ocean on this planet. If California would get over their NIMBY attitude, build some desalination plants, build some nuke power plants to power the pumps, and build some pipelines to move some water in-land, they would have all the water they needed.
ELECTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES
Can this mean she has accepted the fact democrats got their arses whipped this month and that King Obama has just poisoned the well for most bi-lateral cooperation?
Control access to water, and you control the land.
And the people...
Won’t be seeing a DEMOCRAT doing this in a Hollywood movie, will we?
Secret meeting talk going on,how much money does her old man make off the deals?.
I believe that Feinstein and Pelosi are buying up land cheaply in the central valley. Lack of water driving prices down. Kinda like Chinatown in the past century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Water_Wars
Excerpt: The San Fernando land syndicate, a group of wealthy investors and some[which?] of who were close friends of Eaton, including Harrison Gray Otis, Henry E. Huntington and others bought up large tracts of land in the San Fernando Valley with this inside information.[7][11] This syndicate made substantial efforts to support passage of the bond issue that funded the aqueduct. These efforts are reported to have included the dumping of water from Los Angeles reservoirs into the sewers (thereby creating a false drought) and by publishing scare articles in the Los Angeles Times, which Otis published.
I think part of the secret efforts go to the idea of building more dams....way up in north California, and pumping the water south. It’d take a decade to clear court fights, and actually get the dams built. She needs folks in north California go along with this, along with conservation groups, environmental groups, etc.
Personally, if you look twenty years ahead and nothing happens...you will be severely limited on water usage in both southern California and Vegas. It would be a woeful place to live.
The problem with California is nothing gets done unless everyone gets a cut of the action it’s Chicago west.
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