The House Appropriations Committee Tuesday approved a $21 billion energy
and water appropriations bill that virtually abolishes funding for the
Army Corps of Engineers’ proposed $117 million Columbia River Fish Mitigation
Program. The bill now goes to the House Rules Committee and then to the
House floor.

Some of the cuts likely will be restored on the House floor and in a
House-Senate conference committee. The level of financing in a final bill
will determine whether the National …