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Show the project. This program was made possible by the Upper Colorado Col-orado Grass Roots Committee, and it has been most effective. HEARINGS CLOSED House) hearings on the project have now been completed and the Committee Commit-tee is expected to consider and draft the legislation during the next 30 days. for over-confidence. VOTE BREAKDOWN For example, ex-ample, the entire senatorial delegations dele-gations from Virginia, New York, Illinois, Michigan and California opposed Echo Park Dam. In the Senate, this meant only 10 votes against this vital project. But if the same delegations unite in opposition to Echo Park in the House, they represent 126 negative nega-tive votes nearly one-third of 'the House membership. SOBER FIGURES As a matter mat-ter of cold fact, if each House delegation from each state votes in the same manner as the senators sen-ators from the state, Echo Park, which passed 52 to 30 in the Senate, Sen-ate, would be defeated 216 to 193 in thA HmiCn rf PnniAKniUnti..nn I CONGRESSMAN DAWSONREPORTS THE BIG FIGHT Victory in ; the Senate for the Upper Colo-jrado Colo-jrado River project again focuses attention on the big battle for ,our future in the House of Representatives. Rep-resentatives. Led by Senators Arthur V. Watkins and Wallace F. Bennett, the fight for Echo Park Dam the crucial vote was won with 52 senators supporting sup-porting us, 30 against. VOTE ANALYSIS This would appear to be a clear margin of victory and so it is in the Senate where each state has only two members. But in analyzing this vote as it might be projected in the House where representation is based on population rather than region, it gives little reason ,u i" iiuustr ui nepreseiuaiives. NO DISMAY The breakdown however, does not dismay members mem-bers of the House from the Upper Up-per Basin States. It is just serving serv-ing as an additional spur as we go about our task of putting the project over. Politics have been forgotten among representatives of the Upper Basin States. The future of our states is much bigger big-ger than the political future of any of its representatives in Congress. FILM EDUCATION- As part of our education program, each congressman from the Upper Basin States has acted as host at a luncheon for other members of Congress. After lunch, the magnificent mag-nificent color film Birth of a" Basin has been shown giving a strong argument in behalf of |