WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 -- Sen. Michael Bennet issued the following press release:
Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper penned an op-ed today in MS NOW detailing how critical the Arkansas Valley Conduit is for Southeastern Colorado and calling on Congress to overturn President Trump's veto on their bipartisan, unanimously passed legislation to lower costs on the construction and complete the project.
"In the first veto of his second term, President Donald Trump chose to halt a bipartisan 130-mile water infrastructure project 60 years in the making," wrote Bennet and Hickenlooper in the op-ed. "When a president puts political vendettas ahead of clean water for schools, hospitals and ranchers, he isn't 'shaking up' Washing...