Posted on 02/14/2019 8:02:19 AM PST by rktman
The Senate on Tuesday passed the most sweeping conservation legislation in a decade, protecting millions of acres of land and hundreds of miles of wild rivers across the country and establishing four new national monuments honoring heroes including Civil War soldiers and a civil rights icon.
The 662-page measure, which passed 92 to 8, represented an old-fashioned approach to dealmaking that has largely disappeared on Capitol Hill. Senators from across the ideological spectrum celebrated home-state gains and congratulated each other for bridging the partisan divide.
It touches every state, features the input of a wide coalition of our colleagues, and has earned the support of a broad, diverse coalition of many advocates for public lands, economic development and conservation," said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
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Its amazing that this has been going on since 1993 and nobody has a clue on what is driving it.
If this link will not work google “Wildlands Project” Maps.
Here is none other than Nancy Pelosi introducing Agenda 21 (The Green New Deal) on the floor of the House.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MxMif1tBVk
The activists for all this are relentless, ruthless and remorseless Socialist/Commonists and fiercely anti-American to their rotten core!!!
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