Congress gone wild! While Trump grabs headlines, the House has been hard at work pushing GOP agenda
Source: Salon
Donald Trump is not the only game in Washington when it comes to pushing for dangerous and destructive policies. The House of Representatives of the 115th Congress has been hard at work since its swearing-in three weeks ago. In that time, the chamber has set the stage for a frenzy of revanchist policy prescriptions that, should they pass the Senate and be signed into law by the president, will radically alter the nation’s regulatory landscape, hurt women and their health, and ransom off our national parks to mining and other corporate interests.
Some of these changes, like a budget resolution setting the stage for rolling back Obamacare and attacking abortion rights, were high-profile enough to rate heavy coverage. Others were not. Here is a quick look at some of the legislation the House has passed in the first three weeks of the new regime.
Read more: http://www.salon.com/2017/01/27/congress-gone-wild-while-trump-grabs-headlines-house-has-been-hard-at-work-pushing-gop-agenda/
Look past the smoke and mirrors. Federal land valued at zero dollars? They were ready from day 1.
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While the House was writing the rules package that will govern this session of Congress, the chairman of the chamber’s natural resources committee slipped in a provision that will make it easier for the government to transfer federal lands to states. This could be the prelude to states then selling off much of this land to whichever industry is looking to strip-mine it: timber companies, oil and gas interests, cattlemen like Cliven Bundy, you name it.
Say goodbye to Yellowstone and Yosemite. Once the corporation move it and destroy public lands, it's hard to turn back the clock on that.
