This page contains Congressional resolutions. Resolutions indicate the topics that legislators care about, but cannot legislate about.

01-WGA12 on Aug 14, 2001

1. Water quality restoration is essential for economic and environmental sustainability of forestry, agriculture, fisheries, manufacturing, recreation and public water supply.
2. The Western Governors favor collaborative, incentive driven, locally based solutions to environmental and natural resource problems such as water quality restoration.
3. The governors continue to endorse the Park City Paradigm to guide water management. Its guiding principles are:
   • Recognition of diverse interests in water resource values.
   • Problems should be approached in a holistic or systemic way that recognizes cross-cutting issues, cross-border impacts and concerns, and the multiple needs within the broader "problemshed" – the area that encompasses the problem and all the affected interests.
   • The policy framework should be responsive to economic, social and environmental considerations. Policies must be flexible and yet provide some level of predictability.
   • Authority and accountability should be decentralized within national policy parameters. This includes a general federal policy of recognizing and supporting the key role of states in water management.
   • Negotiation and market-like approaches as well as performance standards are preferred over command-and-control patterns.
4. Implementing these water management principles can be expensive and beyond the ability of some states to fund. However, the benefits of managing the resource in this manner are significant. Therefore, the Western Governors encourage federal agencies to look for opportunities to use existing authority to provide funding, flexibility in funding, and/or shared or loaned personnel to states to help them address specific watershed problems.

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   Participating counts on VoteMatch question 18. Question 18: Replace coal & oil with alternatives Scores: -2=Strongly oppose; -1=Oppose; 0=neutral; 1=Support; 2=Strongly support.
   • Topic: Environment
   • Headline: Collaborative, incentive driven, locally-based solutions (Score: 0)
     
     Participating counts on AmericansElect question 8.
   • Headline: Collaborative, incentive driven, locally-based solutions (Answer: B)
   • AmericansElect Quiz Question 8 on Environment: Which of the following statements comes closest to your personal view?
     • A: Natural resources exist for the benefit of humanity
     • B: Natural resources exist for the benefit of humanity, but should be somewhat protected
     • C: Natural resources should be mostly protected, but also exist for the benefit of humanity
     • D: Natural resources exist on their own and should be completely protected
     • E: Unsure
     
     
     
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   • Cases: w=wrote; j=joined; d=dissented; c=concurred
   • Surveys: '+' supports; '-' opposes.
   
   
   

   Democrats participating in 01-WGA12
   Ben Cayetano	s1s	HI Former Democratic Governor (1994-2002)
   Gray Davis	s1s	CA Former Democratic
   John Kitzhaber	s1o	OR Democratic Governor
   Gary Locke	s1s	WA Former Democratic Governor (1997-2004); Sec. of Commerce
   Tauese Sunia	s1s	AS00 Former Democratic Governor

   
   
   

   Republicans participating in 01-WGA12
   Jim Geringer	s1o	WY Former Republican Governor (1995-2002)
   Bill Graves	s1s	KS Former Republican Governor (1995-2002)
   Kenny Guinn	s1s	NV Former Republican Governor (1999-2006)
   John Hoeven	s1s	ND Former Republican Governor (2000-2010)
   Jane Dee Hull	s1s	AZ Former Republican Governor (1997-2002)
   Bill Janklow	s1s	SD00 Former Republican Governor (1979=1986 & 1995-2002)
   Mike Johanns	s1s	NE Former Republican Governor (2005-2007); elected Senator 2008
   Gary Johnson	s1s	NM Former Republican Governor (1995-2002)
   Judy Martz	s1s	MT Former Republican Governor (2001-2005)
   William Owens	s1s	CO Former Republican Governor (1999-2006)
   Rick Perry	s1s	TX Republican Governor

   
   
   

   Independents participating in 01-WGA12
   Carl Gutierrez	s1s	GU00 Former Guam Governor
   Dirk Kempthorne	s1s	ID Former GOP Governor (1999-2006); former Sec. of Interior
   Tony Knowles	s1s	AK Former 2008 Senate Dem. primary challenger
   Mike Leavitt	s1s	US Cabinet-2008
   Pedro Tenorio	s1s	IT00 Former Marianas Governor (1982-1990)

   
   
   

   Total recorded by OnTheIssues:

   Democrats: 5 Republicans: 11 Independents: 5