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<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><font size=4 face=Tahoma><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Pair who know water helping
to run House; Key lieutenants for Pelosi worked behind scenes on Central Valley
Project<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
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Bee – 2/11/07<o:p></o:p></span></font></h1>
<h1 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><font size=4 face=Tahoma><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>By Michael Doyle, staff
writer</span></font></b><font size=4><span lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-weight:normal'><o:p></o:p></span></font></h1>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'>Few men know <st1:place w:st="on">Central
Valley</st1:place> water quite like Dan Beard and <st1:PersonName w:st="on">John</st1:PersonName>
Lawrence. Now, they're helping run the House of Representatives.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'>That should intrigue anyone who drinks,
irrigates or fishes in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">California</st1:State></st1:place>.
Because, when it comes to Valley water, memories are long and feelings
pronounced.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'>Beard and Lawrence now serve as key
lieutenants for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. As chief of staff, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Lawrence</st1:City></st1:place> oversees
legislative operations. As the House's newly appointed chief administrative
officer, starting next Thursday, Beard will handle personnel, procurement and
other unglamorous grit.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'>"My job is to get people their paychecks
and make sure the computers are running," Beard said Friday. "It's
not a partisan position, and it has nothing to do with policy."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on"><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN style='font-size:
14.0pt'>Washington</span></font></st1:State></st1:place><font size=4><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'> attorney Tom Jensen put it another way:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'>"I'm not sure why anyone in their right
mind would want to try to administer the House of Representatives," said
Jensen, a former Senate staff member, "but Dan is certainly up to the job,
and I have no doubt he'll keep his eye out on water issues, as well."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'>Beard's new appointment is a homecoming of
sorts. Along with <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Lawrence</st1:City></st1:place>,
he formerly worked for Rep. George Miller, D-Martinez.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'>Miller, in turn, is one of Pelosi's closest
congressional advisers.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'>Yet another alumnus of Miller's office, <st1:PersonName
w:st="on">Steve Lanich</st1:PersonName>, is now staff director for the House
water and power subcommittee.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'>Water-wise, they've already left their mark.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'>Miller co-authored the 1992 Central Valley
Project Improvement Act, which changed where water goes in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on">California</st1:State></st1:place>. Farmers get less and pay more,
while the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta enjoys an added infusion of water. The
bill shifted 800,000 acre-feet of water from farms to fish. Water and power
users have also paid millions of dollars into an environmental restoration
fund.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'>Beard, Lanich and Lawrence all played crucial
behind-the-scenes roles in writing the 1992 law.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'>"Dan Beard is a true expert on Western
water, and on <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">California</st1:State></st1:place>
water in particular," said Jensen. "He knows the law, economics,
politics, players and where all the bodies are buried."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'>The work helped Beard win promotion in 1993,
to serve as President Clinton's first commissioner of the Bureau of
Reclamation.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'> That put Beard in charge of the vast
Central Valley Project, the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Redding-to-Bakersfield</st1:City></st1:place>
series of dams and canals relied upon by Valley farmers.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'>But Beard's work antagonized farmers in areas
like the Westlands Water District, where irrigation deliveries fell by as much
as 50 percent.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'>"I don't need him," <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Fresno</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
farmer Jorgen Clausen said of Beard in the mid-1990s. "Everybody out here
got hurt by what that man did."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'>A former Democratic member of Congress, Rick
Lehman, made a point of criticizing Beard. Lehman still lost in 1994 to Rep.
George Radanovich, R-Mariposa, in part over voter unhappiness with federal
water policies.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'>Beard left the Bureau of Reclamation job in
1995, unhappy with the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Clinton</st1:City></st1:place>
administration. He later served as senior vice president of the National
Audubon Society and then with the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton. Now 63,
Beard said he was retired, playing with his new granddaughter and writing a
book on Western water policy when Pelosi called.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'>"The House is an exciting place to
work," Beard said, "and I thought, if I could make some small
contribution to making it work more effectively, I would like to try to do
it."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'>With his new job, he will oversee 700
employees and a $130 million budget. Publicly, his water past has not arisen as
an issue.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'>Republican grumbling did arise, though, over
Pelosi's failure to consult with them prior to hiring Beard for the job that
pays roughly $160,000 a year.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'>"I do not question the credentials of Mr.
Beard," said Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield. "Will he make a
great CAO? I do not know, quite frankly, because he has never come before
us."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
lang=EN style='font-size:14.0pt'>McCarthy serves on the House Administration
Committee, which oversees congressional administrative details. He was not in
Congress when Beard, Lawrence, Lanich and Miller were writing the 1992 water
revisions.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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