the face of the fact that the administration has done nothing over the past seven years to build water resources infrastructure." "Without a Water Resources Development Act, which is seven years overdue, we are seeing our coastline disappear," said Rep. Charles Boustany (R-La). Opposition A watchdog group, Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS) commented that the bill was just a continuation of the political practices that led to the Hurricane Katrina disaster in 2005. It stated, "In the starkest terms, Katrina showed us that the time is long passed to end the political spoils system that has driven water project investment for more than a century. We need a modern, accountable and prioritized system to develop and award projects. It's a message that Congress has failed to grasp." While the bill provided funding for water projects around the country, it also contained "more than 800 parochial pork barrel projects for virtually every Congressional district in the nation." TCS complained that instead of disbursing funds by need, the legislators distributed as much as they could to their own districts. Bush veto President Bush vetoed the bill on November 2, explaining: Veto override The House voted 361 - 54 (290 required) to override President Bush's veto. House members from both parties representing those areas disagreed with Bush's attempt to kill the bill. The next day, the Senate also voted to override the veto 79 - 14 (67 required), making it the first veto override of Bush's term and the first veto override in ten years. The bill only authorizes projects like coastal restoration and river navigation; funding still needed to be secured via the appropriations committees. References External links WRDA 2007 - Summary Text from the Library of Congress Levees.org - Non profit in New Orleans holding the Army Corps accountable for their flood protection nationwide United States Army Corps of Engineers PDF Version See also Flood Control Act Rivers and Harbors Act United States federal defense and national security legislation United States federal public land legislation United States federal environmental legislation United States federal labor legislation Acts of the 110th United States Congress 2007 in the environment