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Litigation Drives Endangered Species Act to the Detriment of Species and People
Press Release Jun 19, 2012
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Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources continued its series of full committee oversight hearings on how to improve and update the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Today’s hearing focused on ESA litigation and how attorneys’ fees are being used by certain organizations to continue endless lawsuits. Witnesses at th...
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House Votes to Prohibit Federal Government from Mailing Out Cash for Surveys
Press Release Jun 6, 2012
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The House of Representatives today passed, in a bipartisan vote of 355 to 51, an amendment by Congressman Scott Tipton (CO-03) to the FY 2013 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act to prohibit the federal agencies under the bill from mailing out cash as an incentive to complete government ...
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Chairman Hastings' Statement at Conference Committee Meeting on Highway Bill
Op-Eds and Speeches May 8, 2012
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House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) delivered the following opening statement today at the Conference Committee meeting on the Highway bill: “The federal government’s slow, cumbersome bureaucracy is consistently getting in the way of job creation and economic growth. Nowhere is this more ev...
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Chairman Hastings Statement on March Jobs Report
Press Release Apr 6, 2012
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House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the March unemployment report: “With March job creation significantly underperforming experts’ anticipations, ever higher gasoline prices are a growing threat to job creation an...
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Chairmen Question Obama Administration on Mailing Out $$$$$$$
Tax Dollar Tracker Mar 22, 2012
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Earlier this week, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) and Water & Power Subcommittee Chairman Tom McClintock (CA-04) sent letters to the Bureau of Reclamation and the Office of Management and Budget requesting information on the use of American tax dollars to pay for a controversial Departm...
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BUDGET WATCH: President's Budget Increases Spending for Government Land Acquisition
Tax Dollar Tracker Feb 15, 2012
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President Obama’s FY2013 budget proposal released Monday includes $450 million to buy more federal land through the Land and Water Conservation Fund. Despite the Federal government’s ballooning $15 trillion debt, the President is proposing a $160 million spending increase (58 percent) for government land acquisition co...
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Secretary Salazar Confirms Costs of ESA Litigation & Settlements are Unknown
Press Release Feb 15, 2012
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Today during a Full Committee hearing on the President’s FY 2013 budget, Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar agreed that reforms to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) are needed to make it less lawsuit driven and admitted that he doesn’t currently know how much the Department spends on ESA-related litigation costs. The Nat...
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BUDGET WATCH: President's Budget Shows Declining Revenues from Offshore Drilling
Tax Dollar Tracker Feb 14, 2012
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Facts are stubborn things and the facts in President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2013 budget regarding future lease sales for offshore energy reflect this President’s true position on expanding offshore energy production. The five year offshore lease plan implemented under the previous Administration is soon to expire and be r...
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President's Budget Increases Taxes, Destroys Jobs and Spends Money We Don't Have
Press Release Feb 13, 2012
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House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings released the following statement regarding President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2013 budget proposal: “The President’s budget represents more of the same failed policies from the Obama Administration that will cost American jobs and harm our economy. Increased government...
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Video Blog: Natural Resources Committee Jobs Watch - Rep. Landry
Blog Dec 13, 2011
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House Natural Resources Committee Republicans are committed to putting Americans back to work by enacting policies that embrace America’s abundant natural resources to help create jobs and grow our economy. Meet Freshman Committee Member Jeff Landry from Louisiana’s Third Congressional District. Rep. Landry’s constitue...
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