WASHINGTON, D.C., September 18, 2012 - House Natural Resources Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) and National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Subcommittee Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01) sent a letter yesterday to Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar urging the Administration to comply with outstanding requests for documents regarding the Obama Administration’s decision to institute a 20-year ban on uranium development on one million acres of federal land in Arizona. The Department has yet to comply with the initial request for information, sent on May 23, 2012. Yesterday’s letter asks that the outstanding information be provided to the Committee no later than October 1, 2012. Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Scott Tipton’s (CO-03) legislation to create rural jobs and affordable electricity by streamlining the regulatory process for the development of small hydropower projects will receive a hearing in the Senate Energy and Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power on Wednesday, September 19. Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Congressman Mark Amodei (NV-2) today voted in favor of H.R. 6213, the No More Solyndras Act. The bill would prohibit the Department of Energy (DOE) from issuing new loan guarantees through a failed stimulus program. DOE lost hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars through loan guarantees to high-risk companies with political-ties to the Obama Administration that later went bankrupt, including Solyndra in California, Beacon Power in Massachusetts, and Abound Solar in Colorado. Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) today announced that the House has passed a plan with bipartisan support to provide an additional $800 million for wildfire fighting to the Forest Service and the Department of the Interior for 2012 and 2013. Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Montana's Congressman, Denny Rehberg, today signed a bipartisan discharge petition to bring H.R. 6083, the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management (FARRM) Act to the House Floor for a vote. After sending a letter to House leadership urging passage of the Farm Bill, this action constitutes the strongest effort available to a member of the House of Representatives to force action on pending legislation. It is just the latest example of Rehberg putting the interests of Montana head of partisanship. Read more »
Washington, D.C. – Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson today joined colleagues in requesting a meeting with Majority Leader Eric Cantor to discuss the importance of allowing a five-year Farm Bill to be brought to the House floor so members can have a vote. Without congressional action, the 2008 Farm Bill and its authorized programs will expire at the end of this month. Simpson continues to urge his colleagues in the House of Representatives to bring a full reauthorization to the House floor for a vote. Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Congressman Mark Amodei (NV-2) today expressed profound disappointment with the Nevada State Office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) after receiving the agency news release announcing the exclusion of more than a quarter of a million acres in the Ely District from its most recent oil and gas competitive lease sale. The presence of the sage hen habitat is cited by the BLM as the basis for excluding two thirds of what was to be a 376,618 acre lease offering. Read more »
Washington, D.C. - Congressman Berg today attended a “Farm Bill Now” rally on the United States Capitol grounds. Members of Congress joined with national agriculture organizations and members of the farming community to help raise public awareness of the need for Congress to pass a new, comprehensive farm bill before the current program expires on September 30th. Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Montana's Congressman, Denny Rehberg, today praised House-passage of H.R. 3397, the Cabin Fee Act, which he co-sponsored. If passed by the Senate, this legislation would establish a fair and predictable yearly lease system for cabin owners on National Forest land who have been saddled with massive fee increases. The Cabin Fee Act would institute a tiered system of fees, and also reduce the cost of overseeing the cabin system by eliminating the time-consuming and costly appraisal process mandated by a law passed in 2000. Read more »
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Lee Terry (R-NE) today released the following statement after the TransCanada Corporation submitted a Supplemental Environmental Report (SER) to the Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality (NDEQ) for the preferred alternative route for theKeystone XL Pipeline in Nebraska. Read more »
