House votes to override Bush veto of $23 billion water bill

House votes to override Bush veto of $23 billion water bill
Thank goodness the other branches of government is the US are finding the spine (and their brains, also). Note that this water bill:

Among those projects are the reconstruction of levees around New Orleans and the closure of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet, a man-made channel blamed for funneling Katrina's devastating storm surge into the city's Lower 9th Ward and neighboring St. Bernard Parish.