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.).
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
PING!
Because the gables are sooooo extraordinary.
Actually Kennesaw Mountain was a Confederate victory.
How things are done nowadays: it passed, so now we can see whats in it. 662 pages.
Another Federal land grab.
The Senate just passed the decades biggest public lands package. Heres whats in it
What’s in it? Another screwing for the American public.
Interesting that no on has heard of this until it was passed.
The government obviously working hard for themselves.
Bastards all!
how much will this cost? Didn’t see a price tag in the article.
Probably 100k down on the list of things Congress needs to fix.
More Kabuki Theater from the Uniparty Clowns
I wish I knew my Civil War better. And after looking it up, a much bigger battle than that “decisive” union victory in Kentucky. They must be running out of yankee victories to commemorate.
Adds 1.3 million acres of new wilderness, expands several national parks and ... uses federal royalties from offshore oil and gas drilling .. The fund is authorized to collect $900 million a year ... permanently reauthorize the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund,
The largest public lands bill considered by Congress in a decade, combines more than 100 separate bills that designate more than 350 miles of river as wild and scenic, add 2,600 miles of new federal trails and create nearly 700,000 acres of new recreation and conservation areas.
The bill also withdraws 370,000 acres in Montana and Washington state from mineral development.
UN Agenda 21 ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)
In 2017 Trump was working to END FEDERAL MONUMENTS REDUCE FEDERAL LAND...
Did he sign this new bill?
Trump order could roll back public lands protections from 3 presidents
https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/25/politics/donald-trump-federal-lands-antiquities/
Trump orders review of national monuments, vows to ‘end these ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/04/25
It hasn't passed TRUMP yet!
Why not just grab it all? Protect Gaea from us foul, rootin' tootin' pollutin' parasites? Then the AOC upgrader squads can storm in and save the planet, house by house, without interference or distractions about pesky property rights.
92 to 8...to 1. What are the chances?
“The 662-page measure”
plus 4 pages of demonic laughter.
we will see.
Mexican Supremacist in charge of American public lands...sounds like a plan. I bet if we look at the other Chairman now appointed, they will be equally as EVIL.
Weird huh?
I love history and am in favor of hoarding sites, but after reading the comments, the tree huggers (I do love trees, too, but also love wood furniture and small log cabins) noted that:
“The catch is that the bill from the link above hands over 2.9 million acres of wildlife habitat to big oil for fracking in the same states where they just “protected” 1.3 million acres.”
If Mike Lee opposed it and Romney was for it, I would have to dig more about the long term motives of the deep state.
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