Tree-Hugging Eco-Warrior Lisa Murkowski's New Bill - We Pay To Sell Off National Parks, Monuments
Still, I hear she's just a wonderful person, a truly self-actualized 21st Century superwoman, who adopts stray kittens and polar bear cubs and Rwandans, so that they can live in her LEED Platinum off-grid eco-home.
Go, Lisa, go!!
The new chair of the powerful Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee secured a vote Thursday afternoon in the U.S. Senate on a controversial proposal to sell off America’s national forests and other public lands.
U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski’s (R-AK) amendment, which passed by a vote of 51 to 49, is now part of the Senate’s nonbinding budget resolution. The proposal would support and fund state efforts — which many argue are unconstitutional — to seize and sell America’s public lands. These include all national forests, wildlife refuges, wilderness areas, historic sites, and national monuments.
Murkowski’s amendment, which would need further legislation to become law, follows a similar proposal from House Natural Resources Committee Chair Rob Bishop (R-UT) to spend $50 million of taxpayer dollars to fund the sale or transfer of U.S. public lands to states.
The land grab proposals in Congress this year appear to echo the calls of outlaw rancher Cliven Bundy, best known for his armed standoff with federal officials last year, who has infamously refused to recognize the authority of the federal government, including over public lands.
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http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/03/26/3639683/senate-sell-off-public-lands/
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