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<br />we will submit.it in writing. Our thrust will not be to the merits of <br />any specific project.. That will he adequately covered by each propo- . <br />nent for those projects.. . Our thrust is going to be the very point you <br />have been raising here, and.that is the abrogation of the'legislative <br />process by which we operate in this country under law. That is the <br />direction we will be going in our statement and I think you are right, <br />Larry. -The :time has come now that the determination is going to be I <br />made.asto who is 'going to run this country. It's time that Congress <br />gets off the can and exercises that :prerogative all the way. <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: Mr. Baer. <br /> <br />MR. JOHN BAER: I am acfarmer from Lorna. I spent.ten:years on the water <br />cOmmittee in the Colorado House. I can't quite believe that, in my own <br />mind, Congressman- Udall, -I.heard him say the other morning that there <br />was a commitment by the congressmen and .senators, .they made a commitment <br />and I think Congress should be able to get_this back'. And I agree with <br />Larry 100 percent, there is no use fooling around. I don't know who <br />this Fletcher is, Miss Fletcher ,'and' I don 't know. her. views exactly. I <br />have been reading and I have heard some of it but I suspect .that she has <br />not been here for ,two or three years. . I can't imagine'with $200,000,000 <br />spent-on the Auburn Dam"",-I was just up there a year ago lastfall--I <br />can't believe that they are going to let them scrap that job with the <br />support that California has in Congress and like the miner. at Ouray, I <br />don't know if I ought to say this--I don't know how I'm -going to phrase <br />it--they had btunper stickers that said, "Let the bastards freeze in the <br />dark." We are going to have to let them freeze and starve to death .if <br />they keep scrapping these water projects in the West. <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: Mr. Meek. <br /> <br />MR. CARTON MEEK: I would like to express our appreciation to this <br />Board, Governor Lamm, congressman Evans, congressman Johnson, Senator <br />Hart, Senator Haskall, the' Colorado River Commission, the Colorado River <br />Conservation- District, the Water Resources Congress and all the other <br />organizations and people involved in this and the support that you have <br />given for this project. <br /> <br />MR.' SHERMAN: I understand the Ramada' 'Inn has accommodations- for 600. <br />people, is that correct? <br /> <br />-24- <br />