House Democrats Are Planning to Go After Cliven Bundy in Spending-Bill Fight
Democrats are going hard after a right-wing hero this week, with plans to put language on the House floor that some have deemed the "Cliven Bundy amendment."
Rep. Ruben Gallego of Arizona plans to introduce an amendment to the House fiscal 2016 spending bill for the Department of the Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency that would block the government from issuing grazing permits to people with unpaid grazing fees.
That's language that pushes back against Bundy, a cattle rancher in southeastern Nevada who's been locked in a decades-long dispute with the Bureau of Land Management over unpaid grazing fees on federal land.
Bundy became a conservative folk hero after grazing his cattle on federal land in Nevada without paying fees, claiming that the government has no authority over the land. In 2014, the Bureau of Land Management tried to collect more than $1 million in debt, launching a weeks-long standoff with armed Bundy supporters.
"The amendment reasserts Congress' support for enforcing and monitoring grazing fees on public lands," said a spokesman for Gallego. "People like Cliven Bundy who refuse to pay their grazing fees in violation of the law cost taxpayers millions of dollars in lost revenue on grazing allotment."
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