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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsProposal would create a Texas-sized ‘Republic of Cliven Bundy’
Cliven Bundy may be in jail, but he still has friends in Congress.
The U.S. House of Representatives next week is expected to vote on a proposal that would exempt 48 counties, primarily in the West, from the law that has been used for more than 100 years to protect archaeologically, culturally, and naturally significant resources in the United States, including the Grand Canyon and the Statue of Liberty.
The counties that would be exempted from the Antiquities Act of 1906 cover more than 250,000 square miles an area nearly the size of Texas. The amendment, which was authored by Rep. Stewart (R-UT) and Rep. Gosar (R-AZ), appears to have two main purposes.
First, it would block the efforts of local communities in Maine, Utah, Arizona, and elsewhere which have been asking President Obama to establish new national monuments in their states.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/07/08/3796737/republic-of-cliven-bundy/
dembotoz
(16,866 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,799 posts)that we should strip mine the Rockies from New Mexico to the Canadian border for the cheap coal. No exemption for Yellowstone, either.
sinkingfeeling
(51,501 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,089 posts)Politicub
(12,165 posts)How sweet. They want to destroy our national monuments to show us how much they love their God Cliven Bundy.
Mendocino
(7,533 posts)are just useful idiots in the ultimate goal, the complete takeover and privatization of the public green by corporate America.
Jerry442
(1,265 posts)sulphurdunn
(6,891 posts)represented in the US congress.
Stainless
(718 posts)is a member of the extremist right-wing Utah Congressional delegation. I live in his gerrymandered district and there are way too many brainwashed and poorly educated Republicans who will vote for him. There are also many Democrats who will not vote because they are complacent and lazy. It's a lose/lose scenario.
ancianita
(36,241 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,799 posts)TexasTowelie
(112,755 posts)as described in the White Horse Prophecy.
Zambero
(8,982 posts)Who needs hall that worthless historical and cultural stuff when there's an agenda to pursue?