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If you have foreign weeds, grass, trees, or shrubs on your property (and you most certainly do), you're in trouble. Under "Invasive Species" provisions currently sitting in the Senate's version of the Federal Transportation Bill (S. 1072), your property could quickly become the target of radical environmentalists and bureaucrats. Imagine the Endangered Species Act on steroids. Now multiply its devastating effect on property rights by one million. That should give you a pretty good idea of what "Invasive Species" legislation will mean for property owners in every state, country, city and suburb in the nation. "Invasive Species" is the radical...

Folks: No, that?s not a misprint in the subject line. The Wildlands zealots have been frustrated by the slow progress of their "Invasive Species" agenda in Washington. As you?ve read and heard from me previously, "Invasive Species" is a critical part of the "Wildlands Project". You know; no human activity within large portions of America (and Pennsylvania). How best, then, to get "Invasive Species" into law and kick-start Wildlands? Simple; slip it into a must-pass, massive bill such as the transportation bill now sitting in the House of Representatives, known as SAFETEA or S.1072. No one will see it. Wrong!...

WASHINGTON (AP)--President Bush and some Senate conservatives are balking at the price tag of a major highway bill, dimming prospects for legislation that normally is embraced by Congress because it brings money and jobs to every corner of America. The Senate's six-year, $318 billion highway and mass transit bill, in its second week on the Senate floor, faces a Republican filibuster and White House opposition over its cost. ``I'm increasingly concerned we're not going to get a highway bill this year,'' said Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, whose party, widely supportive of the legislation, has stood aside while Republicans battle...