<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div class="" style=""><a href="http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/21/feinstein-promises-to-try-again-on-california-water-bill" class="" style="">http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/11/21/feinstein-promises-to-try-again-on-california-water-bill</a><br style="" class=""></div><header class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 2rem; padding-left: 0.625rem; padding-right: 0.625rem; width: 786.65625px; right: auto; left: auto; float: left;"><div class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.625rem 0px 0px; border-top-width: 3px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 168px 0px 0.625rem; width: 766.65625px; float: none; position: relative;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin-bottom:
0.25em; font-family: jaf-bernino-sans, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.3em; text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(115, 115, 115);"><a class="" href="http://ww2.kqed.org/news/programs/the-california-report" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: url(http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/themes/KQED-unified/img/logo-tcr-sm.png); background-size: 24px; color: rgb(115, 115, 115); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; display: inline-block; min-height: 24px; padding-top: 4px; padding-left: 30px; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat;">THE CALIFORNIA REPORT</a></span></div><h1 class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 2.5rem; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.625rem; padding-right: 0.625rem; padding-left: 0.625rem; font-family: jaf-bernino-sans, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; text-rendering:
optimizelegibility; line-height: 1.2em; width: 766.65625px; float: none; letter-spacing: -0.02em;">Feinstein Promises to Try Again on California Water Bill</h1><figure class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0.8125rem;"><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0.4em; margin-bottom: 1.25rem; padding-right: 0px; width: 295px; left: 66.66667175292969%; right: auto; float: none; ; top: 471px; margin-right: -393.328125px; padding-left: 0.625rem;" class=""><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 0.5em; padding-top: 0.5em; font-family: jaf-bernino-sans, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.89375rem; line-height: 1.4; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-top-width: 3px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: black;" class=""><br class="" style=""></div></figcaption></figure><div class="" style="box-sizing:
border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 168px 0px 0.625rem; width: 766.65625px; float: none; position: relative;"><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: jaf-bernino-sans, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.125rem; letter-spacing: -0.02em; line-height: 1.4;">By <span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://ww2.kqed.org/news/author/danbrekke" title="Posts by Dan Brekke" class="" rel="author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: black; text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit; font-weight: bold;">Dan Brekke</a></span></span><span class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-family: jaf-bernino-sans, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.5; text-transform: uppercase;"><time class="" datetime="2014-11-21T14:34:32+00:00" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 0.875rem;
line-height: 1.5;">NOV 21, 2014</time></span><div class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; ; z-index: 10; top: 0px; right: 0px; width: 71px; overflow: hidden;"></div></div></div></header><div class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; clear: left;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding-right: 0.625rem; padding-left: 0.625rem; font-family: freight-text-pro, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.375rem; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; width: 688.328125px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin-left: 8.33333% !important;" class="">A controversial effort by California Sen. Dianne Feinstein to broker drought-driven water legislation is dead, for now.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding-right: 0.625rem; padding-left: 0.625rem; font-family: freight-text-pro,
Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.375rem; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; width: 688.328125px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin-left: 8.33333% !important;" class="">Feinstein said in a statement Thursday that, although efforts to negotiate a compromise with House Republicans have made progress, “we will be unable to present an agreed-upon proposal before Congress adjourns this year.”</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding-right: 0.625rem; padding-left: 0.625rem; font-family: freight-text-pro, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.375rem; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; width: 688.328125px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin-left: 8.33333% !important;" class="">In <a
href="http://www.fresnobee.com/2014/11/20/4245563_feinstein-pushes-california-water.html" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(1, 156, 220); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">an interview with the Fresno Bee</a>, Feinstein said the effort would start again in January.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding-right: 0.625rem; padding-left: 0.625rem; font-family: freight-text-pro, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.375rem; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; width: 688.328125px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin-left: 8.33333% !important;" class="">“You’ve got to work with people to get something done,” she said. “I’m going to put together a first-day bill for the next Congress, and it can go through the regular order.”</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom:
1.5em; padding-right: 0.625rem; padding-left: 0.625rem; font-family: freight-text-pro, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.375rem; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; width: 688.328125px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin-left: 8.33333% !important;" class="">The veteran Democrat’s negotiations had centered on working out differences with <a href="http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/03/brown-blasts-gop-drought-bill-as-divisive" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(1, 156, 220); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">HR3964</a>, passed by the House in February.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding-right: 0.625rem; padding-left: 0.625rem; font-family: freight-text-pro, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.375rem; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; width: 688.328125px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin-left: 8.33333% !important;" class="">The legislation was put forward by San Joaquin Valley Republican Reps. David Valladao and Devin Nunes and other members of California’s GOP delegation. The bill aims to secure more water for agriculture by suspending provisions of various federal and state water and endangered species laws and allowing more pumping from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Many of the provisions existed in earlier versions of the legislation, sponsored by Nunes, that predated the drought.</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding-right: 0.625rem; padding-left: 0.625rem; font-family: freight-text-pro, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.375rem; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; width:
688.328125px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin-left: 8.33333% !important;" class="">Most Northern California Democrats and their environmental allies have fought the bill. Seven members of the delegation <a href="http://mikethompson.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/northern-california-reps-statement-on-senator-feinstein-pulling-deeply" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(1, 156, 220); text-decoration: none; line-height: inherit;" class="">issued a statement Thursday</a> applauding Feinstein “for stepping away from this deeply flawed legislation.”</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding-right: 0.625rem; padding-left: 0.625rem; font-family: freight-text-pro, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.375rem; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; width: 688.328125px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin-left:
8.33333% !important;" class="">The statement — from Reps. Jared Huffman, Mike Thompson, Ami Bera, Jerry McNerney, George Miller, John Garamendi and Doris Matsui — repeated criticism that Feinstein had conducted clandestine talks that excluded input from the public, environmental and fishing-industry advocates and members of her own party:</div><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0.5625rem 0.625rem 1rem; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(89, 89, 89); -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.375rem; font-family: freight-text-pro, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; width: 688.328125px; margin-left: 8.33333% !important;" class=""><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.2375rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; letter-spacing: 0.01rem;" class="">As Members of Congress who represent districts that would be directly affected by this legislation, we have been raising serious objections to both the secretive process and the harmful content of this legislation. We will continue to demand next year that any water legislation responding to California’s severe drought be balanced and take into consideration the array of stakeholders in California.</div></blockquote><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding-right: 0.625rem; padding-left: 0.625rem; font-family: freight-text-pro, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.375rem; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; width: 688.328125px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin-left: 8.33333% !important;" class="">John McManus, executive director of the Golden Gate Salmon
Association, expressed similar sentiments:</div><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0.5625rem 0.625rem 1rem; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(89, 89, 89); -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.375rem; font-family: freight-text-pro, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; width: 688.328125px; margin-left: 8.33333% !important;" class=""><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.2375rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; letter-spacing: 0.01rem;" class="">“Any federal legislation that seeks to shift the balance of water distribution has to consider the interests of salmon and fishing communities since they’ve been hurt the worst by past water allocation decisions. This legislative effort
didn’t do that. The next time legislators consider California water issues, the interests and views of salmon fishermen need to be included.</div></blockquote><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding-right: 0.625rem; padding-left: 0.625rem; font-family: freight-text-pro, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 1.375rem; line-height: 1.5; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; width: 688.328125px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); margin-left: 8.33333% !important;" class="">Feinstein pushed back against suggestions that she had been secretive or working on behalf of corporate agricultural interests that have supported her in the past.</div><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; padding: 0.5625rem 0.625rem 1rem; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);
line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(89, 89, 89); -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-size: 1.375rem; font-family: freight-text-pro, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; width: 688.328125px; margin-left: 8.33333% !important;" class=""><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1em; font-size: 1.2375rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; letter-spacing: 0.01rem;" class="">Claims that this has been some kind of secret process are false. In order to come up with a bill that is ready for public comment, back-and-forth negotiations and consultations are often necessary, including extensive technical assistance from federal and state agencies. That process is ongoing. …</div><div style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.2375rem; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; letter-spacing: 0.01rem;" class="">… It’s
my hope that groups critical of this effort will strive to be productive rather than destructive. It’s clear that we need to get more water to our cities, businesses, farmers, households, fish and the Delta. And it’s equally important that we continue to protect wildlife and the environment. Only together will we stand a chance of agreeing on a bill that can help accomplish all of these goals.</div></blockquote><div class="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; width: 1180px; max-width: 73.75rem; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: freight-text-pro, Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 16px;"></div></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;" class=""><br class="" style=""></div></div></body></html>