Examining the politics of reclamation: the 1944 acreage limitation debate in Congress.

From: The Historian | Date: June 22, 2005| Author: Freeland, Kathleen B. | Copyright information

DURING DEBATE IN the U.S. House of Representatives over what would become the Flood Control Act of 1944, Representative Carl Curtis of Nebraska summarized the complicated issues and interests involved in the drafting of water resource legislation: 

 
   Flood control plans and their allied plans, including irrigation, 
   power development, and other features bring forth complicating 
   interests, community and sectional interests, differences of 
   individual opinion, bot...

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