Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act
Latest action (Jan 8, 2026) — The Chair directed the Clerk to notify the Senate of the action of the House.
What it does
Congressional Research Service, Jan 3, 2025This bill reduces payments that communities within the Arkansas River Valley must pay to the Bureau of Reclamation for the construction of the Arkansas Valley Conduit, a pipeline in Colorado for delivering water from the Pueblo Reservoir to such communities. Specifically, it removes interest payments and extends the repayment period to 100 years.
Face Value
as enrolledHow much of this bill its name accounts for.
- Every bill starts at100
- Nothing counted against it: one area of law, and short enough that length doesn't register.
Face Value measures reach, not honesty. A big bill can be accurately named, and a low score is not an accusation — it means the contents reach further than any short title could describe. Count it yourself ↗ How this is worked out
What Congress did
1 recordedPassage, Objections of the President To The Contrary Notwithstandingdecisive vote
House · Jan 8, 2026
Whether to pass it over the President's veto. Needs two thirds of both chambers.
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