Over 100 Western Organizations Call on Congress to Pass Drought Legislation

WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 16, 2016) — Yesterday, in a renewed call for Congress to pass drought legislation this year, over 100 Western water user organizations, commodity groups and state Farm Bureaus sent a letter to Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairwoman Lisa Murkowski and Ranking Member Maria Cantwell urging bipartisan cooperation to produce compromise legislation that can be signed into law before President Obama leaves office.

Click here for the complete press statement released jointly by the Family Farm Alliance, California Farm Bureau Federation and Western Growers Association.