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GOP Kicks Off Effort To Roll Back Obama’s Monument Designations
dailycaller.com ^ | 3/15/2017 | Michael Bastasch

Posted on 03/15/2017 10:52:59 AM PDT by rktman

House lawmakers kicked off their effort to push back against national monuments designations, targeting the large swaths of ocean the Obama administration made off limits to fishing.

“I don’t believe the Antiquities Act should have ever been applied to oceans,” Alaska Republican Rep. Don Young said during a Wednesday hearing on marine monument designations. “There was never intent of that.”

Republicans on the House Committee on Natural Resources have long criticized former President Barack Obama’s use of the Antiquities Act to put millions of square miles off limits to commercial fishing with little to no input from locals.

With President Donald Trump in office and pending legal challenges, Republicans believe they can roll back some of Obama’s marine monuments or at least the restrictions on commercial fishing that were imposed with little to no input from local industries.

Committee chairman Utah Rep. Rob Bishop and American Samoa Rep. Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen sent a letter to Trump in early March urging the removal of restrictions on commercial fishing in marine monuments.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 115th; americansamoa; antiquitiesact; atlantic; atlanticocean; bho44; commercialfishing; designated; first100days; fishing; illegal; pacific; pacificocean; trump45
Uh, can't it just be "un-designated"? ;-)
1 posted on 03/15/2017 10:52:59 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

Hope Trump includes the hundreds of square miles in the Desert SW, where he flies into his retreat just outside of Palm Springs.


2 posted on 03/15/2017 10:57:35 AM PDT by sanjuanbob
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To: rktman

Historically, I don’t think any President ever went to un-designate something. If you go back to Taft....he’s the one who attempted to redo Teddy’s national forest deal that was done, and this unraveled Taft’s 2nd election chances.


3 posted on 03/15/2017 10:58:40 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: rktman

Bump!


4 posted on 03/15/2017 11:00:29 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: pepsionice
"...this unraveled Taft’s 2nd election chances."

Naw... Taft war road-kill due to collision with one these big boys:


5 posted on 03/15/2017 11:05:48 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: rktman

If You Like Your Legacy, You Can Keep Your Legacy.
(except when you can't)


6 posted on 03/15/2017 11:09:07 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler ("Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory." --Miguel de Cervantes)
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To: BroJoeK

Go back to the Pinchot-Ballinger controversy. Taft prior to 1909....was buddy-buddy with Teddy. After the episode, they were no longer friends, and Teddy returned in 1912 to run again. It’s a four-star story worth a movie how these two came to hate each other.


7 posted on 03/15/2017 11:11:59 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: rktman
American Samoa Rep. Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen (R-AS)

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8 posted on 03/15/2017 11:17:27 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler ("Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory." --Miguel de Cervantes)
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To: rktman

I think we have enough national parks.
The government cannot take carecof the ones they have


9 posted on 03/15/2017 11:18:16 AM PDT by South Dakota (We need a real independent investigation of Bill/Hillary and Obama's actions)
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To: South Dakota

Give Utah back thier land too.


10 posted on 03/15/2017 11:40:28 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: rktman

Time is short. Skip this nonsense and work on more important things like real repeal/replace of Obamacare, building the wall, enforcing our immigration laws, deporting illegal aliens, and ending birthright citizenship. And eliminating regulations and lowering taxes. Yep, a lot more important things to do than undo monuments and parks. Besides, I’m sure Trump will designate his share over the next 4-8 years just like all recent presidents. This is a waste of time and distraction. PRIORITIZE!


11 posted on 03/15/2017 11:41:07 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Drain the Swamp is not party specific. Lyn' Ted is still a liar, Good riddance to him.)
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Trump should announce that he wants to make Obama’s birthplace a National Monument, but the government of Kenya won’t allow it.


12 posted on 03/15/2017 11:43:17 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell (Listen for my radio call-in program on channel A in your brain, yes caller ... I'm listening)
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To: gibsonguy

NONE OF THESE LANDS EVER BELONGED TO THE STATES. Why to people keep saying give it back?! It began and federal lands, it remains as federal lands. I, for one, am happy with that federal ownership. What I want to see is more or better use and access to it. Stop shutting down roads, as one example.


13 posted on 03/15/2017 11:43:25 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Drain the Swamp is not party specific. Lyn' Ted is still a liar, Good riddance to him.)
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To: pepsionice

Yeah, we love parks.


14 posted on 03/15/2017 12:00:57 PM PDT by Lopeover (The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: rktman

After that, they should start selling off some Federal land.


15 posted on 03/15/2017 12:08:20 PM PDT by TBP (0bama lies, Granny dies.)
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Other states may not care about this stuff, but Clinton and Obama created no-touchy monument footprints in the Mountain West the size of some eastern states, locking up unknown trillions of btu’s of energy sources and putting limits on recreational use.


16 posted on 03/15/2017 12:34:56 PM PDT by lurk (TEat)
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To: pepsionice
"Go back to the Pinchot-Ballinger controversy."

So, you're saying it was the larger western bull moose which did in ol' Taft?


17 posted on 03/15/2017 1:40:17 PM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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To: pepsionice

This President doesn’t play the “no President ever” game. They say the same thing about getting rid of entitlements and reducing the bureaucracy. Sit back and watch.


18 posted on 03/15/2017 1:44:27 PM PDT by Rastus
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