Arizona’s Congressional Delegation Leads Both Houses This Afternoon
By Arizona Politics
Andy Howell/PinalCentral 2018
UPDATE, 3:40pm: The Senate has now approved the DCP, as well. Both Houses passed the identical bill today on voice votes, so the next action will be for President Trump to sign the approval into law.
The Colorado River Drought Contingency Plan (“DCP”) is front and center this evening in both Houses of Congress. And, Arizona’s Congressional delegation is again in the forefront of the action. At approximately 6pm (EDT), the House approved the bill to approve the DCP by an uncontested voice vote.
As reported previously by Arizona’s Politics, Arizona is the only state where the entire Congressional delegation sponsored/co-sponsored the bills to approve the DCP last week.
Although Arizona’s legislators dominated the day, it was Utah’s Rob Bishop (R-UT) who had the best line. The Ranking Member of the Natural Resources Committee (to Chair Grijalva) praised the cooperation among the Colorado River Basin states, and then told his House colleagues that if this bill was not to pass, “Utah’s going to keep all the water and the rest of you can suck under. (laughter)”
