WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 -- Sen. Michael Bennet issued the following press release:

Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper issued the following statement after President Trump vetoed their bipartisan Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act:

"Nothing says 'Make America Great Again' like denying 50,000 rural Coloradans access to clean, affordable drinking water. President Trump's first veto of his second term blocks a bipartisan bill that both the House and Senate passed unanimously, costs taxpayers nothing, and delivers safe, reliable water to rural communities that overwhelmingly supported him. Trump's attacks on Southern Colorado are politics at its worst-putting personal and political grievances ahead of Americans. South...