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Congress Includes Land Grab Provisions in National Defense Authorization
Breitbart News ^ | 3 Dec 2014 | Edwin Mora

Posted on 12/08/2014 6:07:54 PM PST by george76

Some lawmakers negotiated the inclusion of land grab provisions in the 2015 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which will expand the already massive federal real state holdings.

Critics consider those provisions pork because they have nothing to do with defense or national security. The NDAA provides guidance for U.S. defense spending and policy. It is considered a “must-pass” legislation.

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When asked to comment on the potential land grab, Catherine Frazier, a spokeswoman for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), told Breitbart News, "Controversial legislation that has not been debated and is completely irrelevant to our national defense should have no part in the NDAA bill debate."

The Senate aide told Breitbart News that highlights of the lands provision include:

•275,000 acres designated as new Wilderness Areas;

•A Women’s History Museum;

•Four new National Parks seven National Park studies for new parks to be;

•16 National Heritage extensions;

•Three new Wild and Scenic River (WSR) designations and three new WSR studies that are expected to become new designations; and Land entitlement for Sealaska, an Alaska Native Regional Corporation

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Dan Caldwell, the legislative director for Concerned Veterans of America, expressed disappointment that members of Congress were trying to fund a public land package through an NDAA that cuts benefits to troops.

“It is absolutely disgraceful that there are members of Congress who are pushing to include funding in the National Defense Authorization Act for a massive federal government land grab, a women’s history museum, and other pet projects while raising healthcare and housing costs for our troops when many of them continue to risk their lives every day in combat in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan,” ..

“Instead of crafting serious and forward-thinking defense policy, it appears that many members of Congress are more interested in rewarding political supporters and engaging in cronyism.”

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Syria; US: Alaska; US: District of Columbia; US: Texas; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: agenda21; ndaa; un; un21; unagenda21
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1 posted on 12/08/2014 6:07:54 PM PST by george76
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To: george76

Crony Rustler Reid buziness as usual.


2 posted on 12/08/2014 6:09:48 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: george76

Republicans hopping right back in the pig trough now that the election is over.


3 posted on 12/08/2014 6:10:36 PM PST by Iron Munro (D.H.S. has the same headcount as the US Marine Corps with twice the budget)
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To: george76
All the more impetus to Utah and elsewhere to...

The federal government has 31.2 million acres of Utah's land, and Utah wants it back.

4 posted on 12/08/2014 6:14:19 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: george76

Tyranny by any other name. Expect nothing from the EXEMPT Repubs — there is no opposition party.


5 posted on 12/08/2014 6:14:23 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: george76

The GOP should grab this bit of property. Probably pretty valuable, and not being put to good purposes right now.

6 posted on 12/08/2014 6:15:28 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Democrats have a lynch mob mentality. They always have.)
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To: TEXOKIE; Whenifhow; Mr. Silverback; cripplecreek; NoLibZone; Lucky9teen; Pete; bicyclerepair; ...

UN Agenda 21 ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)


7 posted on 12/08/2014 6:20:47 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: C210N

Grab the land to prevent fracking!!!


8 posted on 12/08/2014 6:22:16 PM PST by Leo Carpathian (FReeeeepeesssssed)
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Grab the land to prevent/CASH IN ON fracking.


9 posted on 12/08/2014 6:37:13 PM PST by justrepublican (Screaming like a "Vexatious requester" at a Wellstone memorial...........)
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To: george76

They should be selling all this land on the open market to pay down the debt.


10 posted on 12/08/2014 6:44:20 PM PST by rey
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george76:" A Women’s History Museum;"

There is already a Federal Park/women's history museum in Seneca Falls , NY !
They need another one ?

11 posted on 12/08/2014 6:46:33 PM PST by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: george76

http://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20141201/CPRT-113HPRT91496.pdf

If anyone cares to look the land grab starts at 3000.


12 posted on 12/08/2014 6:47:23 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
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To: ClearCase_guy
‘twas donated by the Rockefeller's.
13 posted on 12/08/2014 7:11:05 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Rip it out by the roots.)
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To: mrsmith

Thanks.


14 posted on 12/08/2014 7:15:37 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (NRA)
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To: george76
This needs to be stopped.

Yesterday.

15 posted on 12/08/2014 7:28:21 PM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: Flycatcher

Yes


16 posted on 12/08/2014 9:55:55 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

Cronyism knows no party boundaries.


17 posted on 12/09/2014 6:50:26 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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Cronyism knows no party boundaries.


18 posted on 12/09/2014 6:50:57 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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Thx george76.


19 posted on 12/09/2014 12:26:15 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/_______________________Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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To: Georgia Girl 2
Cronyism knows no party boundaries.

There, fixed it. ;-)

20 posted on 12/09/2014 12:40:17 PM PST by Carry_Okie (Those who profess noblesse oblige regress to droit du seigneur.)
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