if my democrat colleagues believe that nepa is a worthwhile law that works and that nepa is important, why should they oppose making sure that presidential designations should not go through the same process? this bill continues to uphold the original intention of the antiquities act which is to allow the president to act in emergency situations. it protects the president's ability to act if there is an imminent threat to an american antiquity by allowing for a temporary emergency designation of 500 -- of 5,000 acres or less for a three-year period. after that time, in order to ensure public participation in the process, the designation would be made permanent if the nepa process is completed or if it's approved by congress. the bill would also limit national monument declarations to no more than one per state during any four-year presidential term and prevent the inclusion of private property without the prior written consent of the property owners. national monument designations deserve public input from the people and communities directly impacted. this bill is necessary to stop un

nepa, no, not nepa. no money. federal highways, we have 140,000 bridges on the federal system that need replacement or substantial rehabilitation or repair. no money. it isn't nepa review that's stopping that. it's a lack of funding. we're not making the necessary investments. so, you're not addressing jobs here. don't pretend you're addressing jobs. don't pretend you're addressing utility rates and don't even pretend that this bill is going anywhere. we repeal nepa every other day in the resources committee or the republican majority does. hasn't happened yet. and now this is the new way to come at it, through the judiciary committee. i guess they get tired, i mean, we have had a lot of bills on the floor to repeal nepa that have been passed and have gone to the senate and nothing's happened, so let's try and fool them. we'll cloak it in a judiciary bill instead of in a resources bill and we'll pretend it's not really about nepa or it's about something else. actually this bill is really bizarre. because it create

what we are asking is for a president before he uses his authority to go through nepa. to provide for public comment and concept. if nepa is the magna carta and it provides for citizen voice and democratic decision, how can you then say that this bill which provide for nepa for that kind of public policy would eviscerate one of america's bedrock conservation laws? this is simply intellectual gymnastics of the highest level. either getting public input is good, in which case we should pass this bill, or getting public input is bad, in which case there's a lot of things we should change around here. i happen to think getting public input is good because it does one thing. it solves the problem before they develop. in our state we have had a national monument that was designated by presidential proclamation for almost 20 years now. we are still dealing with issue of what kind of grazing rights were or were not included in that proclamation. what kind of roads were or were not opened. even though we tried to solve the problem because the president had no concept of what tru

you have to go through the nepa process which requires public comment. public input. which is what every other agency in the federal government has to use, congress has to go through that same process. the only one who is exempt from public comment is the president. that's why this is important. that's why this is vital, especially to people who live in high rural areas that have a lot of federal land in which they are frightened that the president could upend everything simply by the stroke of a pen and they don't have an avenue to give input. this bill gives them input. it is easily the most moderate approach that will ever come about the antiquities act on this floor and i think it is worthy of supporting the rule and bringing to the floor for a vinyl vote and i reserve the balance of my time -- final vote and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from utah reserves. the gentleman from colorado is recognized. mr. polis: mr. speaker, let's request -- let's replace the antiquity that is our broken immigration system with one that re

than nepa. the measure undermines current regulatory protections and could jeopardize public health and safety by prioritizing speed over meaningful analysis. now, turning to 2824, the other measure included in today's rule, which like the 50 times that we voted to repeal the affordable health care act, my repealer republican friends have done that, they have also offered 50 rules which are not open rules in spite of the fact that we began this session by the speaker of the house saying this would be the most open house that we have had. 2824 included in this rule is no more productive than the previous legislation offered. the legislation would overturn a court decision in order to block a buffer requirement designed to prevent damage to waterways from surface coal mining operations. these are protections that president ronald reagan put in place. the environmental protection agency estimates that over 500 mountains have been destroyed by the practice of mountain top removal mining. more than 1

they have some reasons to do it, in fact if they do it, they might do it big going tall way to the nepa river and ousting the government from kiev but it's also as likely they won't take a step, it's that radical. >> meanwhile other secession movements in europe have been heartened by the the situation in crimea. the venice situation, 89% of the vevenetians want independence fm italy. >> franco chooses to fly the flag of the former maritime republic of venice rather than the italian colors. >> our city used to be the capitol of an empire. now it's underdeveloped because all wealth is in the hands of the state and is distributeunequally. >> he's one of hundreds of thousands of residents of venice and the surrounding neighborhood of veneto, breaking away from italy and going back to being an independent state. venice was the heart of a powerful republic that lasted a thousands years. since it became part of italy in 1866 resentment towards rome has grown credit consistently. >> the network of independent movements that organized the vote say they are tired of seeing their taxpayers' money

they have some reasons the do it, if they do it they would do it big, going to the nepa river, but they't take a step that's that radical, not likely. >> any sanctions from the european union? >> the european union is preparing sanctions. they're likely to be milder than the sanctions that come from the united states if nor no other reason than the fact that europe has much closer ties to russia, cutting off the market that's important to them. they get about 30% of their energy from the russian federation. the u.s. can put people on the black list with a certain degree of impunity because we really don't have a strong economic relationship with russia. >> before i let you go i have to ask if it's about making it personal with vladimir putin, it's not as if he is going to show weakness. i'm a little perplexed actually by that strategy. vladimir putin is not going to show weakness, his friends are not going to show weakness. they've been kind of nonchalant, haven't they? >> they have. many of the sur names of people on that list are not -- surnames are not can really -- many of them are

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in fact, the only time we care about nepa is if it's going to block monday youments that the president may want to decide to establish. every other time, it's a job-killing regulation. total lingo and rhetoric and it's really a shame and i'm getting to the point, mr. speaker and i want to yield back to the gentleman some committee can begin talking about fracking, it's really getting frustrating and we know we are here of different political points of view. i'm a proud progressive liberal, absolutely, just like humphrey, l.b.j., martin luther king, all those guys, i admire them all and i'm not apologizing to be a progressive liberal but that doesn't stop me from talking to a conservative republican as long as we are both trying to solve the problem. they are not trying to solve anything. i'm happy to talk to republicans with their conservative views and hag will it out and meet somewhere in the middle and won't be everything we want, but will do something. where are we at? no immigration, no. people are suffering, two million strong, no where. where we at on raising the minimum wage, w