To a degree that is impossible for most people to fathom, water projects are the grease gun that lubricates the nation’s legislative machinery. Congress without water projects would be like an engine without oil; it would simply seize up. If an influential southern member of Congress didn’t much like a program designed to aid a certain part of the Northeast, then it would not be unheard-of for the Congressional delegation from that region to help him get a dam built in his state. If a Senator threatened to launch a filibuster against a particular program, perhaps the program’s advocates could
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