The vote on the McCain-Feingold amendment to the Water
Resource Development Act appears to be very close.
This amendment requires independent review and
prioritization of larger Army Corp of Engineer
projects. We need people to contact Senator Harkin and
have him vote for the McCain-Feingold amendment to
WRDA.

> Update on status in Senate [Mark]:  Vote looking
> very close for
> prioritization [47 Senators supporting] and
> independent review [50
> Senators], and there¹s a real chance of winning, if
> the soft support can be
> shorn up.  Senators Graham of SC and Mikulski of MD
> in the soft category;
> Snowe and Carper strong supporters.  A Midwest
> organizations letter to
> Senators is underway; Mark needed to hear back from
> Emily Green about Sierra
> Club signing on.  Need to keep up pressure as
> industry is lobbying very
> hard.
> 
> Sierra Club position on overall bill:  Robin
> explained that Mark had been
> misunderstood to be pushing a Sierra Club position
> in favor of the overall
> bill.  That is not the case.   By this time Debbie
> had joined us. Debbie
> asked Leslie March for her views.  Leslie noted that
> the Gulf Coast Task
> Force worked hard with American Rivers and others to
> get the closure of Mr.
> Go included in the legislation, but even so they
> know the bill is full of
> environmentally destructive projects and have no
> problem with the Club not
> supporting the final bill, which is expected to pass
> by a large margin.
> Mark noted that he is getting a lot of press calls
> about the amendments, but
> reporters are not asking about the Club¹s position
> on the legislation.  We
> agreed to focus our public message on passage of the
> amendments, and not to
> openly oppose a bill that is sure to pass unless the
> amendments fail.
> 
> 
> On 7/18/06 2:47 PM, "Jim Bensman"
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
> > Debbie, 
> >  
> > Please post on the list what happened in your
> conference call on WRDA last
> > night.   What was decided?  Thanks for keeping the
> members informed.
> > 
> > Jim Bensman
> > "Nature Bats Last"
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