Posted on 11/13/2013 4:33:54 AM PST by bestintxas
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell says she will recommend that President Obama act alone if necessary to create new national monuments and sidestep a gridlocked Congress that has failed to address dozens of public lands bills. Jewell said the logjam on Capitol Hill has created a conservation backlog, and she warned that the Obama administration would not "hold its breath forever" waiting for lawmakers to act. "The president will not hesitate," Jewell said in an interview in San Francisco last week. "I can tell you that there are places that are ripe for setting aside, with a tremendous groundswell of public support." Congress has not added any acreage to the national park or wilderness systems since 2010. Jewell blamed ramped-up rhetoric in Washington for the impasse. She said the appetite for preserving American historic and cultural sites remains high but some officials seek to avoid the appearance of publicly embracing more government protection. Jewell, who has been on the job scarcely six months, came to California to promote several intiatives and tour a site that could be added to a national monument along the Mendocino coast. She began with a meet and greet at the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. On a bright day with gulls wheeling against a backdrop of the Golden Gate Bridge — the velvety green Marin headlands in the distance — Jewell stood in one of the nation's most-visited national parks and made the case for the value of public lands. Among the public events on Jewell's schedule was a visit to the 1,255-acre Stornetta Public Lands site on the Mendocino County coast, north of Point Arena. Several members of the California congressional delegation have proposed adding the site to the California Coastal National Monument.
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Congress should impeach her IMMEDIATELY, for being negligent in her duties.
Too bad there isn’t the balls in the ‘Pubbie party to do it.
Who are the puppeteers who make him dance?
There has to be a hidden agenda here with an endgame that benefits Barry, some other Pol or greeny-weeny organization. I refer all of you back to Clinton and the Grand Staircase / coal payoff scheme.
-—Congress has not added any acreage to the national park or wilderness systems since 2010. -—
Wow....so Congress managed to do something....by not doing nothing...
Bravo...hopefully the trend continues....
Well remember V. Jarrett saying Obama would be ready to “rule” from day one? Turns out she meant exactly what she said, it’s the way everybody in this administration thinks. And it’s sickening.
If we ever get this country back, all these people need to be stood up in front of a wall and offered a cigarette.
Everytime you add something to the Fed Gov....you take it away from a state. No state should have to give it away. It should be a matter of a gift by State Legislation and acceptance by the Feds. Also, I think it should require a state referendum.
Every night I go to bed....and picture a black King George in OUR Whitehouse.
The federal government should be selling public lands to pay for some of its horrendous debt.
Our national parks are looking shoddy and this idiot wants MORE national park land. Take care of what Interior is supposed to be doing. And while you’re at it, please instruct the National Park Service to behave less like goons who have forgotten that taxpayers are paying their wages.
Totally agree....
Maybe Michigan can “gift” Detroit to Fedzilla...!
This is why I refer to him as “El-Presidente”
The new Interior sec is REI, an outdoor equipment sales co.
She will help deliver the enviros to the dems. They like parks.
National parks are created by congress, but monuments are declared by executive acts. This is nothing new. However, its obvious in this case that Obama is going to abuse the process simply to seize land and take it out of private ownership.
Particularly considering the abuses we saw during the shutdown, when Obama ordered that life be made miserable not only for park visitors but for those legally living on Federally owned lands, this is a chilling threat.
But everything being political, the highest bidders were the land barons such as Robert Morris who bought huge amounts of land dirt cheap. He was a kind of thief.
Washington is hopeless.
Bobbed hair and not a hint of makeup. Just sayin’
Obama has never been particularly interested on constitutional limitations on the power of the office of president.
In fact, he’s never had any interest in the constitution at all, except insofar as he concocts ways to circumvent its strictures.
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