Posted on 03/25/2009 3:10:15 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON – Congress has voted to set aside more than 2 million acres in nine states as protected wilderness — from California's Sierra Nevada mountains to the Jefferson National Forest in Virginia.
The legislation, which opponents, mostly Republicans, called a "land grab" that would block energy development on vast swaths of federal land, is on its way to President Barack Obama for his likely signature.
The House passed the bill, 285-140, Wednesday, the final step in a long legislative road that began last year.
The vote came two weeks after the House rejected the bill amid a partisan dispute over gun rights. The measure was brought up again in the Senate, which approved it 77-20, setting up Wednesday's vote.
The bill — a collection of nearly 170 separate measures — represents one of the largest expansions of wilderness protection in a quarter-century. It confers the government's highest level of protection on land in California, Colorado, Idaho, Michigan, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia.
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More “Audacity” fashion boils the hopelessness of Congress basket case of idiots.
Every year, whether it is “empowerment”, progressist slavery and “inter-dependency”, valueless “social values” - revoking rights of independent growth, or this year’s “audacity”, they keep adding new words to their BS until we wake to a full fledged liberal genocide (overpopluation and choking even our own lives outputing CO2).
No Hitler has ever kept them unexcited as they keep zonking out in their degenerative implosive black hole behavior, destroying all in their path as they got thus started doing sex and drugs in the 60s.
Better be jailed in Heaven than free in this hell they fashion themselves day by day.
How’s your carbon footprint today?
I’m doing all I can to boost mine! :o)
Too bad there is no way we the people could demand his resignation. Is there?
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