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<br />legislation and let us hold hearings and <br />understand it. But we would hear today, I <br />think, an amendment that is thought out to be <br />something that is going to bring equity, but <br />which simply does not understand what it is <br />tinkering with. We would carelessly <br />eliminate a policy without any serious <br />consideration to what we are doing and the <br />implications of it to publicly owned <br />facilities that serve customers who are their <br />owners. That simply cannot be done on the <br />floor with an amendment such as this that is <br />not thoroughly examined. <br /> <br />If we want to change fundamental policy, <br />there is a process to do that in this <br />country. But let us not change radically a <br />fundamental policy of this century in this <br />Congress, on the floor, with an amendment <br />that has never held any hearings. <br /> <br />130 Congo Rec. H332l (May 3, 1984). <br /> <br />Arguments such as those advanced by Congressmen <br />Lehman and Swift were echoed by Representative <br />Udall of Arizona, who warned that the Boxer <br />amendment would affect not just the lower basin of <br /> <br />27 <br />