Crowdog
Jun 16 2004, 12:33 PM
June 16, 2004
The Department of Interior Appropriations Bill is being heard on the House of Representatives floor today with a vote scheduled for this evening.
Congressman Duncan Hunter (R-CA) has submitted an amendment which would restrict Dept. of the Interior from using user fees (Fee Demo money) to pay for environmental monitoring and studies. 
Not sure how to contact your representative??
http://congress.org/congressorg/dbq/offici...command=congdirUnder the Member Name Search, select the Chamber (House) and your state.
SailAway
Jun 16 2004, 01:11 PM
GRANT@FUNCO
Jun 16 2004, 01:14 PM
Thanks Jon for posting this for me. I figured you could make it happen.
Vicki thanks for the links.
SailAway
Jun 16 2004, 01:20 PM
I just called my representative's office and said:
| QUOTE |
| I would like Congressman Calvert to support Duncan Hunter's amendment to the Department of Interior's Appropriations Bill which he is apparently submitting today. The amendment will restrict the Department of Interior from using Fee Demo money, which is money directly out of user pockets, to fund such things as species monitoring. As a user of public lands I very much support this restriction and feel that no user money should be spent on federally mandated programs such as species monitoring. |
Vicki
Crowdog
Jun 16 2004, 02:04 PM
I called Congressman Doolittle (R- CA) and Congressman Gibbons (R- NV).
Cookie
Jun 16 2004, 02:46 PM
Called and emailed Issa
NMERIDER
Jun 16 2004, 03:18 PM
I called Congressman Thomas and urged his support of Congressman Hunter's amendment. Had my Sister do the same. Come on people it's easy.
GRANT@FUNCO
Jun 16 2004, 04:18 PM
Anyone watching CSPAN today saw this ammendment pass today. On to the Senate
This is big news guys . Thanks for your help.
More to come later.
gone
Jun 17 2004, 12:38 PM
| QUOTE |
SITUATION:
Several dangerous anti-access riders are being proposed for the next Interior Appropriations bill, including a ban on Snowmobile access to Yellowstone National Park and an attempt to force the Forest Service to implement the Clinton/Gore Roadless rule.
Potential riders also include several that will diminish R.S. 2477 road rights of-way, unwise changes to the Forest Service Planning regulations, Off Road Vehicle policy revisions, restricting post fire salvage operations and even amendments that will harm family farms and ranches in the Klamath Basin.
Most of these riders are BAD NEWS for OHV users and could, if passed, close thousands of miles of roads and trails. |
Not sure we should be so ready to celebrate yet...
SailAway
Jun 17 2004, 01:20 PM
You're right Tom. I'm trying to find the text of those other amendments so that we can talk about them. Although some of us are tightly focused on not using fee demo money for monitoring, the OHV "big picture" should also draw our attention.
Did not knowing about the other "pitfall" amendments hurt us? Not yet, but it did waste some energy. Would have been cool to be able to say to our representatives "YES on Hunter's amendment but NO on Udall's amendment" (like BRC suggested in the original email they sent yesterday) killing two birds with one stone so to speak. That would have been a "big picture" reaction.
As long as our calls and emails/letters/faxes of yesterday ONLY promoted Hunter's amendment (versus a broad stroke of all amendments) we did just fine.
Like I said, I'm still researching... once I find out more about those other amendments I'll post it.
Vicki
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