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Washington, DC – Today, President George W. Bush vetoed the Water Resources Development Act of 2007. The bill, the first in five years, established and continued programs that would sustain the safety of the New Orleans area and the Louisiana coastline.
WRDA provides almost two billion dollars for an all-inclusive program to protect the city of New Orleans and other southern Louisiana communities, restore the Louisiana coastline and oil and gas structures along the Gulf. It also gives the Corps of Engineers the authority to improve the levees surrounding New Orleans to 100-year levels of protection.
“I am disappointed that the President decided to veto a piece of legislation that would make vast improvements in the protection of New Orleans and the entire Gulf Coast,” commented Jefferson. “I will vote to override the veto and will work hard to get my colleagues to do so as well.”
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