Press Releases
Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami
202-226-7616
11/08/2007
Pelosi Statement on Veto Override of Water Resources Development Act
Washington, D.C. – Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on the Water Resources Development Act, which both the House and Senate voted to override the President’s veto of the bill:
“The overwhelming votes by both the House and Senate to override President Bush’s ill-advised veto of the Water Resources Development Act demonstrates that this New Direction Congress is working in a bipartisan way to meet the nation’s urgent needs.
“Our commitment to real fiscal responsibility – no new deficit spending – contrasts sharply with the trillions of dollars in record deficits accumulated by the Bush Administration. We are hopeful that the President will reconsider his chronic use of the veto to block the priorities of the American people, from water resources, to ending the war in