Sen. Dianne Feinstein calls her rider to a bipartisan water appropriations bill a way to improve efficiency and capture more supply from “wasted” river flows for California cities, agriculture and the environment.
Her sister-girl, Sen. Barbara Boxer, the author of the bill the rider amends, calls it a “poison pill” and vows to filibuster it to death.
A more temperate read from President Obama’s Department of the Interior: Feinstein’s drought rider would further complicate already very, very complicated federal water operations in California with no clear gains. The department, and the White House, are opposed, and rightly so.
California’s two senators, both Democrats, are expected to battle it out in the Senate after the Water Resources Development Act (S612) with Feinstein’s California drought rider sails through the House Thursday. The Senate fight may be Boxer’s last salvo before she retires, and it is unclear she can marshal enough votes to block her own bill.
Feinstein teamed up with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield, to sell-out environmentalists. Everybody knows that.
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