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mrs. lummis: thank you, madam chairman. in december i voted for that historic agreement between president obama and congress to keep american taxes low and could extend unemployment benefits. -- and to extend unemployment benefits. and now we're here to debate how to pay for that and i have an idea about how to help pay for that. my amendment, number 193, would strike the remaining funding for this six months and this year, totaling $35 million, from the budgets of the u.s. fish and wildlife service, the b.l.m. and the forest service for the purpose of buying new federal land. there are many alternatives to buying land with cash that would allow them to continue using yankee ingenuity and those include land exchanges. in my own state we have over half a million acres that have been designated for disposal by federal agencies because these lands don't fit into good land management and yet there are other lands that these same federal agencies would like to acquire. they can do exchanges. they can do sales of this lapped that
mrs. lummis: thank you, madam chairman. in december i voted for that historic agreement between president obama and congress to keep american taxes low and could extend unemployment benefits. -- and to extend unemployment benefits. and now we're here to debate how to pay for that and i have an idea about how to help pay for that. my amendment, number 193, would strike the remaining funding for this six months and this year, totaling $35 million, from the budgets of the u.s. fish and wildlife...
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mrs. lummis: thank you, mr. chairman. first of all i want to thank you personally as well as your colleague from utah, mr. chaffetz, also mrs. mcmorris rodgers of washington, for your work on this amendment. the continuing resolution as written would reinstate a 2009 fish and wildlife determination that the gray wolf in montana and idaho should be removed from the endangered species list. this amendment would replace that 2009 determination with an earlier approved fish and wildlife determination, the one made in 2008. and that expands the scope of delisting of the gray wolf to include the full range of the northern rockies wolf. you know, mr. chairman, after gray wolves were introduced in 1995 into yellowstone national park in my home state and placed on the endangered species list under section 10-j which is the nonessential experimental population section of the endangered species act, a list was determined about what it would take to recover the species, when would we consider it recovered. and it was determined by ex
mrs. lummis: thank you, mr. chairman. first of all i want to thank you personally as well as your colleague from utah, mr. chaffetz, also mrs. mcmorris rodgers of washington, for your work on this amendment. the continuing resolution as written would reinstate a 2009 fish and wildlife determination that the gray wolf in montana and idaho should be removed from the endangered species list. this amendment would replace that 2009 determination with an earlier approved fish and wildlife...
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amendment number 195 by mrs. lummis of wyoming. amendment number 165 by mr. carter of texas. amendment number 204 by mr. scalise of louisiana. amendment number 458 by mr. frank of massachusetts. amendment number 506 by mr. holt of new jersey. the chair will reduce to two minutes the time for any electronic vote after the first vote in the series. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment number 189, printed in the congressional record, offered by the gentlewoman of california, ms. woolsey, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 189 printed in the congressional record, offered by ms. woolsey of california. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for the recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having the chair: the house will be in order. thank you. the committee will be in order. for what purpose does the gentlelady from minnesota rise? >> mr. chairman, i have an amendm
amendment number 195 by mrs. lummis of wyoming. amendment number 165 by mr. carter of texas. amendment number 204 by mr. scalise of louisiana. amendment number 458 by mr. frank of massachusetts. amendment number 506 by mr. holt of new jersey. the chair will reduce to two minutes the time for any electronic vote after the first vote in the series. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment number 189, printed in the congressional record, offered by the gentlewoman of...
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mrs. lummis: thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank the staff of this house of representatives we adjourned this morning at 3:48 a.m. with a staff that diligently stayed and worked these amendments. the staff outside that provide security. it is an amazing effort by the people who serve this country as the staff members of the u.s. house of representatives. i want to take this opportunity to thank them for their outstanding service. mr. chairman, i'm here to propose an amendment and tell a story about a law. it is ironic that these two proposals came up simultaneously . in 1980 a lou was passed called the equal access to justice act. it allows americans who are being challenged by the federal government to recover their legal fees if they successfully sue the federal government when the federal government has wronged them. it is a very fair law. the problem is, in 1995 the federal government quit keeping records on who is receiving payouts and how much under the equal access to justice act. consequently this law has bee
mrs. lummis: thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank the staff of this house of representatives we adjourned this morning at 3:48 a.m. with a staff that diligently stayed and worked these amendments. the staff outside that provide security. it is an amazing effort by the people who serve this country as the staff members of the u.s. house of representatives. i want to take this opportunity to thank them for their outstanding service. mr. chairman, i'm here to propose an amendment and tell a...
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and i mrs. lummis: nating the critical investments we need to keep it going is the last thing we should be doing right now. i want to say a couple of things, too, about the president's budget. the president has put forward a budget on the table that does many of the things that we need to have done. investing in infrastructure, science and technology, education, the very kinds of things that will make our country competitive and move us forward. there are many good things in this budget, whether it's eliminating the tax breaks for big oil companies, no further extensions of tax cuts for the wealthy, making sure we do increase the economic development administration and invest in economic development, investing in health care, continuing to implement the health care reform bill or putting money into the critical training of 4,000 more primary care providers, i know that's a huge need in my state and so many other states. as well as working to move forward on the permanent fix to the s.g.r. so our physic
and i mrs. lummis: nating the critical investments we need to keep it going is the last thing we should be doing right now. i want to say a couple of things, too, about the president's budget. the president has put forward a budget on the table that does many of the things that we need to have done. investing in infrastructure, science and technology, education, the very kinds of things that will make our country competitive and move us forward. there are many good things in this budget,...