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<br />002560 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />of the United States Government is capable of building the gigan- <br />tic irrigation and multiple use structures which are necessary <br />today. <br />It will cost something like 5 billion dollars to completely <br />control and conserve and put to beneficial Use every drop of <br />water in the Colorado River. That is 5,000 million dollars. <br />But that stupendous sum, staggering as it is, will be repaid <br />twice in each century through the multiple use of the water har- <br />nessed, employed and consumed. It is a happy situation that the <br />development of our water can pay its own way if properly organ- <br />ized and implemented. <br />That brings me to the point which has been assigned to me <br />today for discussion. Congress is the official policy-making <br />agency of this democracy. Congress carries the key to the <br />nation's money bags and only Congress can pledge the credit of <br />all of the people in the development of our water and related <br />land resources. And so to Congress we must go when we seek the <br />authority and the funds to control our rivers and put them to <br />work for us. But federal funds for resource development of water <br />or related lands are provided only by Congress pursuant to laws <br />enacted by Congress. This nation is ruled by laws, not man, and <br />every appropriation must be backed by a public law. This is how <br />it is done. A Representative introduces a bill to authorize a <br />specific project within stated cost limits. The Speaker of the <br />House refers it to the House Interior and Insular Affairs Com- <br />mittee. That Committee transmits copies of the bill to the <br /> <br />3 <br />