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Show in retaliation for failure of the Chairman of the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs to bring central Arizona project legislation to the floor of the House. On September 21, 1967 a strong coalition of Democratic and Republican Senators on the Public Works Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee convinced Senator Hayden that if he formally offered his motion to cut funds for the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, it would fail. Senator Hayden did not offer his motion in subcommittee but reserved the right to offer a similar motion when the full Committee met the following week. Such a motion was never offered. On September 28, 1967 Senator Hayden was authorized by the Senate Appropriations Committee to move the Senate to suspend its rules and propose as an amendment or rider to the fiscal year 1968 Public Works Appropriation Bill the language of S. 1004, the central Arizona project Bill, previously passed by the Senate. In this manner the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs would have been by-passed because the Public Works Appropriation Bill had already been passed by the House and was pending in the Senate. On the same day, September 28, Senator Hayden filed notice of intention to move for a suspension of the rules of the Senate, in order to clear the way for amending the Public Works Appropriation Bill. This motion would have required a two-thirds majority of the Senators present for passage. The House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs met during the morning of October 10, 1967 and announced that it would follow the previously arranged schedule of its leadership and consider central Arizona project legislation early in 1968 in the Second Session of the 90th Congress. In the afternoon of October 10, 1967 Senator Hayden announced withdrawal of his motion to suspend the rules of the Senate for the purpose of attaching S. 1004 as a rider to the Public Works Appropriation Bill. On September 30, 1967 at the end of the 1967 water year H. R. 3300 and S. 1004 were still pending business of the Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of Represenatives of the U.S. Congress. A comparison of these two Bills and the text of each follows. Comparison of S. 1004 (Hayden) as Passed by the U. S. Senate, August 7, 1967 with H. R. 3300 (Aspinall) as Introduced January 23, 1967 _______H. R, 3300 (Aspinall) ____________S. 1004 (Hayden) TITLE I - Colorado River Basin Project - Omitted Objectives 43 |