quote [ What Reisner called a ?discrete alliance? of environmentalists and fiscal hawks backed the 1986 Water Resources Development Act, which forced local governments to fund a chunk of future dam projects themselves. Beard said that bill never would have become law without support from Republicans like Tom Petri, a Wisconsin representative at the time. ?He was this sort of noble warrior about dams, saying, ?This is wrong! This is wrong!? ? Beard said, chuckling. ?We were like, ?Yeah, well, we all know it?s wrong.? ? ]