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Land Rights Network
American Land Rights Association (ALRA)
Keep Private Land In Private Hands Coalition
PO Box 400 - Battle Ground, WA 98604
Phone: 360-687-3087 - Fax: 360-687-2973
E-mail: alra@pacifier.com
Web Address: http://www.landrights.org
Legislative Office: 507 Seward Square SE - Washington, DC 20003
Latest Omnibus Lands Updates and News Reports
Reid Says: Omnibus Lands Vote Between Christmas and New Years
Please forward to your lists quickly.
It could come sooner. Call, e-mail and fax your Senators Now!
-----Please read this House Natural Resources Committee Press Release
On Omnibus Land and Water Bill put up Reid-Pelosi.
----- Omnibus report by Energy and Environment Newsletter.
-----You must KEEP CALLING your Senators every day for the next two
weeks. It does not matter if you have called before. Get both your
Senators to oppose the Omnibus Federal Land and Water bill (It still
has no bill number. You may call any Senator at (202) 224-3121.
You can call Senators and leave messages after hours by calling (202)
224-3121.
-----You are doing a great job. The Senate and House Members are
hearing from you. But you must keep it up. Don’t assume other
people are doing it. You must call, fax and e-mail your Senators
today, tomorrow and for the next two weeks.
Please forward this message as widely as possible, to your whole
list.
-----Reid is going around to the Republicans and getting them to
agree to sign on. You must make it clear to the Republicans that this
vote is a threat to rural America and you and will be remembered
forever.
-----You must get the Republicans in the Senate and House to agree to
oppose the Omnibus Federal Lands Bill. They must agree to keep the CR
(Continuing Resolution Appropriations Bill for 2011) clean and not
add a bunch of amendments.
*Subject: Reid-Boxer Omnibus Filled with a Hundred Bills, Billions of
Dollars in New Spending*
From: Natural Resources Republican Press Office
-----December 18, 2010
*-----Reid-Boxer Omnibus Filled with a Hundred Bills, Billions of
Dollars in New Spending *
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senator Barbara Boxer are
moving forward with their plan to pass a massive land, wildlife and
water omnibus package in the final days of the lame-duck Congress.
This colossal bill will cost billions of dollars and include over a
hundred measures that will create new spending programs, cost jobs,
harm our economy, expand the power of the EPA, lock-up more public
land, block U.S. energy production and complicate Border Patrol's
ability to secure our border.
“Harry Reid abandoned one giant omnibus package this week, but
still remains defiant on creating a new bloated bill against the
wishes of the American people,” said Doc Hastings, House Natural
Resources Committee Chairman-elect.
“This latest omnibus package is also stuffed full of costly
programs and wasteful spending – the scope of which will impact
people and jobs across the entire county. We have a debt that is
costing jobs and putting future generations at risk.
Instead of haphazardly approving billions in new spending, we have an
obligation to ask if spending money on these programs is so critical
that we should further indebt ourselves to foreign countries and put
our economic security at risk. This monster bill must be defeated.”
What’s Included in the Reid-Boxer Omnibus:
-----Over a thousand pages.
-----110 bills, many of which have never been voted on by the full
House or Senate before.
-----More than $18 billion in new spending over 10 years.
-----Funding increases for existing programs, including:
-----$9 billion in permanent funding for the Land and Water
Conservation Fund (LWCF) over 10 years, which is primarily used to
purchase more federal land. (Creates a Trust Fund)
-----$136 million for the Public Lands Service Corps over five years
– double the current funding level.
-----$65 million to kill non-native rats, (nutria) on public and
private lands in Maryland, Louisiana and other eligible coastal
states.
-----$40 million for conservation of neotropical migratory birds,
even though the majority are not threatened or endangered.
-----Creation of new federal programs, including:
-----Over $500 million for National Fish Habit Conservation spending
programs and offices.
-----More than $200 million over five years to create a new
national harmful algal bloom (HAB) and hypoxia programs.
-----$208 million over six years for a Coral Reef Conservation
Program, including $40 million for a new international program.
-----$15 million to assist great cats and rare canids – one of
which is only found in Spain and Portugal.
-----$15 million to assist 15 species of cranes living in both North
America and Asia.
-----Multiple bills that expand EPA’s power to control the economy
and kill jobs, and will cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of
dollars.
-----Designation of over 272,673 acres of new Wilderness in three
states – placing land off limits to energy production, public
recreation and threatening U.S. Border Patrol’s ability to secure
the border.
# # #
House Natural Resources Committee Republican Press Office
Contact: Jill Strait 202-552-9997
Spencer Pederson 202-531-4070
http://republicans.resourcescommittee.house.gov
Facebook | YouTube | Twitter
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Energy and Environment Newsletter:
NATURAL RESOURCES: GOP leaders blast Reid's public lands, water
omnibus (12/20/2010)
Paul Quinlan and Phil Taylor, E&E reporters
Republican leaders over the weekend urged defeat of the omnibus
package of 110 public lands, water and wildlife bills that Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) introduced Friday and hopes to
pass in the final days of this Congress.
House Natural Resources Chairman-elect Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) called
the package of 110 bills (S. 303) "bloated" and said it authorizes
more than $18 billion in spending over 10 years.
"Instead of haphazardly approving billions in new spending, we have
an obligation to ask if spending money on these programs is so
critical that we should further indebt ourselves to foreign countries
and put our economic security at risk," Hastings said in a statement.
"This monster bill must be defeated."
Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma, the top Republican on the Senate
Environment and Public Works Committee -- whose Democratic
chairwoman, Sen. Barbara Boxer, urged Reid to push the natural
resources package -- also slammed the bill. Inhofe said through a
spokesman that the package, unlike certain individual measures
included, had no chance of passing and showed that Democrats would
rather "play politics than ensure passage of environmental
legislation."
"What is truly unfortunate is that within this massive package there
are a number of bills that have broad bipartisan support," Inhofe
spokesman Matt Dempsey said in an e-mail. "These bills, if considered
separately from this massive omnibus package, may very well be able to
pass the Senate."
Inhofe and fellow Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn have both
pledged to block the 1,003-page bill.
Senate Democrats counter that Republican obstructionism has forced
them to resort to catch-all omnibus measures like the Consolidated
Natural Resources Act of 2008 and the Omnibus Public Land Management
Act of 2009, which passed with bipartisan support.
"I want to get this package done before Congress adjourns," Reid said
in a statement Friday announcing he filed the bill. Just the day
before, Reid had sounded less enthused. "I'm not sure we can get that
done now," Reid said. "I sure would like to get it done, but I'm not
sure we can."
Reid struck a decidedly different tone Friday. "These are bipartisan
bills," he said. "There is nothing divisive about protecting historic
battlefields, improving our most critical water sources or making sure
that our best wildlife habitat remains wild and healthy."
Inhofe has specifically criticized one measure in the bill intended
to help bolster new EPA efforts to protect and restore the Chesapeake
Bay. He said that provision could serve as a model for water pollution
regulation that would ultimately hurt the agriculture industry in
other parts of the nation.
Hastings leveled broader criticism at the omnibus, saying wilderness
measures would lock up public land from motorized access and energy
production and could complicate the U.S. Border Patrol's ability to
prevent illegal immigration and smuggling.
While Hastings did not identify particular bills, wilderness critics
have targeted Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Jeff Bingaman's
(D-N.M.) "Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks Wilderness Act," which would
protect 270,000 acres of wilderness and 110,000 acres as a national
conservation area along the New Mexican border with Mexico.
The bill, which Bingaman's panel passed unanimously this summer,
includes a 5-mile buffer area to allow Border Patrol to conduct
routine patrols and construct communication and surveillance
infrastructure.
In a June letter, Border Patrol Commissioner Alan Bersin said the
proposal "would significantly enhance the flexibility" of the agency
to do its job, adding that Bingaman's "collaborative process should
be a model for future consideration of wilderness designation along
the border."
Other wilderness proposals in the omnibus would ban logging and road
development in the Devil's Staircase in Oregon, expand the Alpine
Lakes Wilderness in Washington and extend the Middle Fork Snoqualmie
River and Pratt River wild and scenic rivers.
Taken together, the bills' 320,000 acres of wilderness are only a
fraction of the 2.1 million acres of new wilderness areas in nine
states created under the 2009 public lands omnibus.
The omnibus also includes bills that would create or expand national
parks and monuments, including a committee-passed proposal to
designate the Valles Caldera National Preserve in New Mexico as a
unit of the National Park System and a separate proposal to create
the Waco Mammoth National Monument in Texas.
A bill pushed by Montana Democratic Sens. Jon Tester and Max Baucus
would ban future mineral leasing and hardrock mining claims in a
critical watershed bordering Montana's Glacier National Park.
A notable absence in the omnibus is a controversial proposal backed
by Arizona Republican Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl to promote a
massive Arizona copper mine on land that is currently part of the
Tonto National Forest.
The bill, which was included in an earlier public lands omnibus
draft, would allow the Forest Service to swap about 4,000 acres of
the Tonto National Forest to build the mine in exchange for more than
5,500 acres of Resolution Copper's private holdings. That is opposed
by American Indian tribes and Arizona's Democratic lawmakers.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
More on the Reid-Pelosi Omnibus Federal Land and Water Bill
Three key events have happened:
-----A. Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader, has said he will bring
the Senate back between Christmas and New Years to pass the Omnibus
Federal Lands bill if it doesn’t pass before. That is very bad for
you..
-----B. The Corps and EPA Wetlands Jurisdiction Bill (S 787) called
the Clean Water Restoration Act in the Senate, has just been reported
out of Committee and now could be added to the Omnibus Federal Land
And Water Bill. We’ve been telling you that could happen for weeks.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-----Several Key Points To Make To Your Senators:
-----1. Oppose Any Omnibus Federal Land And Water Bill. Insist that
each bill be voted on individually and not as a giant package of
hundreds of bill.
-----2. Do not add any Energy and Natural Resources Committee bills
to the Omnibus Federal Land and Water Bill.
-----3. Oppose any attempt to add S 787, the Clean Water Restoration
Act in the Senate, what we call the Corps and EPA Wetlands
Jurisdiction Land Grab, to any Omnibus Federal Lands Bill. This bill
was just reported out of the Environment and Public Works Committee.
-----4. Do not vote for any Omnibus Federal Land and Water Bill,
period. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has packed up hundreds of
unpassed bills into one giant Omnibus Bill with thousands of pages of
unread laws..
-----5. NO COMPROMISE. Tell the Republicans not to COMPROMISE on the
Omnibus Federal Lands bill. They must not vote for it even if Senator
Reid puts in one or more of their own bills into the Omnibus package.
They should not sell their vote (and sell you out) on the Omnibus to
get another bill passed.
-----6. No Senator has even read all bills in the proposed Omnibus
package. There are dozens of new Wilderness areas including the
Montana Wilderness Bill by Senator Tester.
-----7. There are hundreds of new parks, new land lock-ups of all
kinds. Likely to be included are the Billion Dollar LWCF Trust Fund
and Corps and EPA Land and Water Jurisdiction Grab (S 787)
-----You must urge your Senators to filibuster, place a hold on, or
otherwise delay the Omnibus Lands Bill. They must agree to vote
against it when it comes to a vote. The Senate has a limited amount
of time in the Lame Duck Session. Every day your Senator delays the
bill gives rural America a better chance to survive this onslaught.
-----Do Not Make The Mistake Of Ignoring the Omnibus Lands Bill
because it does not yet have a number. Harry Reid is trying to keep
the bill in secret.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Be sure to go to www.landrights.org <http://www.landrights.org/>
for more information on the Omnibus Federal Lands Bill. You can get
the list of Senators to call, fax and e-mail on the website.
The 2010 Omnibus Federal Lands Bill will include hundreds of bills
that threaten you. The worst are the LWCF Billion Dollar Trust Fund
and the Corps and EPA Wetlands Jurisdiction Land Grab.
-----Don’t allow the Omnibus Lands Bill Sneak Attack In Lame Duck
Congress. It is unbelievable how much you will lose if it passes.
The Omnibus Federal Lands bill as well as the LWCF Billion Dollar
Trust Fund and the Corps and EPA Wetlands Land and Water Jurisdiction
Grab bill can be stopped but you and ALRA as well as many other groups
as possible must participate.
Nothing is more dangerous to you than a Lame Duck session. That is
because many Congressmen and Senators have either lost their
elections or have retired but still come back and vote.
They are no longer responsible to you.
December 2010
Sincerely,
Chuck Cushman
American Land Rights Association
Keep Private Lands In Private Hands Coalition
(360) 687-3087
ccushman@pacifier.com <mailto:ccushman@pacifier.com>
P.S. Your must forward this message to your whole e-mail list. You
must deluge your Senators and Congressman with calls, faxes and
e-mails opposing the 2010 Omnibus Federal Lands Bill. You must also
mention the LWCF Billion Dollar Trust fund and the Corps and EPA
Wetlands Jurisdiction Land Grab. Also oppose EPA’s Chesapeake Bay
Program bill.
If you know of others who would like to receive these alerts, reply
with their e-mail addresses.
Please forward this message as widely as possible. This is a historic
issue.
It is incredibly important for you to forward this message. By
forwarding the message, you can help get millions of copies of this
critically important e-mail distributed. Thank you in advance for
your help.
American Land Rights Association (ALRA)
Keep Private Land In Private Hands Coalition
PO Box 400 - Battle Ground, WA 98604
Phone: 360-687-3087 - Fax: 360-687-2973
E-mail: alra@pacifier.com
Web Address: http://www.landrights.org
Legislative Office: 507 Seward Square SE - Washington, DC 20003
Latest Omnibus Lands Updates and News Reports
Reid Says: Omnibus Lands Vote Between Christmas and New Years
Please forward to your lists quickly.
It could come sooner. Call, e-mail and fax your Senators Now!
-----Please read this House Natural Resources Committee Press Release
On Omnibus Land and Water Bill put up Reid-Pelosi.
----- Omnibus report by Energy and Environment Newsletter.
-----You must KEEP CALLING your Senators every day for the next two
weeks. It does not matter if you have called before. Get both your
Senators to oppose the Omnibus Federal Land and Water bill (It still
has no bill number. You may call any Senator at (202) 224-3121.
You can call Senators and leave messages after hours by calling (202)
224-3121.
-----You are doing a great job. The Senate and House Members are
hearing from you. But you must keep it up. Don’t assume other
people are doing it. You must call, fax and e-mail your Senators
today, tomorrow and for the next two weeks.
Please forward this message as widely as possible, to your whole
list.
-----Reid is going around to the Republicans and getting them to
agree to sign on. You must make it clear to the Republicans that this
vote is a threat to rural America and you and will be remembered
forever.
-----You must get the Republicans in the Senate and House to agree to
oppose the Omnibus Federal Lands Bill. They must agree to keep the CR
(Continuing Resolution Appropriations Bill for 2011) clean and not
add a bunch of amendments.
*Subject: Reid-Boxer Omnibus Filled with a Hundred Bills, Billions of
Dollars in New Spending*
From: Natural Resources Republican Press Office
-----December 18, 2010
*-----Reid-Boxer Omnibus Filled with a Hundred Bills, Billions of
Dollars in New Spending *
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senator Barbara Boxer are
moving forward with their plan to pass a massive land, wildlife and
water omnibus package in the final days of the lame-duck Congress.
This colossal bill will cost billions of dollars and include over a
hundred measures that will create new spending programs, cost jobs,
harm our economy, expand the power of the EPA, lock-up more public
land, block U.S. energy production and complicate Border Patrol's
ability to secure our border.
“Harry Reid abandoned one giant omnibus package this week, but
still remains defiant on creating a new bloated bill against the
wishes of the American people,” said Doc Hastings, House Natural
Resources Committee Chairman-elect.
“This latest omnibus package is also stuffed full of costly
programs and wasteful spending – the scope of which will impact
people and jobs across the entire county. We have a debt that is
costing jobs and putting future generations at risk.
Instead of haphazardly approving billions in new spending, we have an
obligation to ask if spending money on these programs is so critical
that we should further indebt ourselves to foreign countries and put
our economic security at risk. This monster bill must be defeated.”
What’s Included in the Reid-Boxer Omnibus:
-----Over a thousand pages.
-----110 bills, many of which have never been voted on by the full
House or Senate before.
-----More than $18 billion in new spending over 10 years.
-----Funding increases for existing programs, including:
-----$9 billion in permanent funding for the Land and Water
Conservation Fund (LWCF) over 10 years, which is primarily used to
purchase more federal land. (Creates a Trust Fund)
-----$136 million for the Public Lands Service Corps over five years
– double the current funding level.
-----$65 million to kill non-native rats, (nutria) on public and
private lands in Maryland, Louisiana and other eligible coastal
states.
-----$40 million for conservation of neotropical migratory birds,
even though the majority are not threatened or endangered.
-----Creation of new federal programs, including:
-----Over $500 million for National Fish Habit Conservation spending
programs and offices.
-----More than $200 million over five years to create a new
national harmful algal bloom (HAB) and hypoxia programs.
-----$208 million over six years for a Coral Reef Conservation
Program, including $40 million for a new international program.
-----$15 million to assist great cats and rare canids – one of
which is only found in Spain and Portugal.
-----$15 million to assist 15 species of cranes living in both North
America and Asia.
-----Multiple bills that expand EPA’s power to control the economy
and kill jobs, and will cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of
dollars.
-----Designation of over 272,673 acres of new Wilderness in three
states – placing land off limits to energy production, public
recreation and threatening U.S. Border Patrol’s ability to secure
the border.
# # #
House Natural Resources Committee Republican Press Office
Contact: Jill Strait 202-552-9997
Spencer Pederson 202-531-4070
http://republicans.resourcescommittee.house.gov
Facebook | YouTube | Twitter
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- -
- -
Energy and Environment Newsletter:
NATURAL RESOURCES: GOP leaders blast Reid's public lands, water
omnibus (12/20/2010)
Paul Quinlan and Phil Taylor, E&E reporters
Republican leaders over the weekend urged defeat of the omnibus
package of 110 public lands, water and wildlife bills that Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) introduced Friday and hopes to
pass in the final days of this Congress.
House Natural Resources Chairman-elect Doc Hastings (R-Wash.) called
the package of 110 bills (S. 303) "bloated" and said it authorizes
more than $18 billion in spending over 10 years.
"Instead of haphazardly approving billions in new spending, we have
an obligation to ask if spending money on these programs is so
critical that we should further indebt ourselves to foreign countries
and put our economic security at risk," Hastings said in a statement.
"This monster bill must be defeated."
Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma, the top Republican on the Senate
Environment and Public Works Committee -- whose Democratic
chairwoman, Sen. Barbara Boxer, urged Reid to push the natural
resources package -- also slammed the bill. Inhofe said through a
spokesman that the package, unlike certain individual measures
included, had no chance of passing and showed that Democrats would
rather "play politics than ensure passage of environmental
legislation."
"What is truly unfortunate is that within this massive package there
are a number of bills that have broad bipartisan support," Inhofe
spokesman Matt Dempsey said in an e-mail. "These bills, if considered
separately from this massive omnibus package, may very well be able to
pass the Senate."
Inhofe and fellow Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn have both
pledged to block the 1,003-page bill.
Senate Democrats counter that Republican obstructionism has forced
them to resort to catch-all omnibus measures like the Consolidated
Natural Resources Act of 2008 and the Omnibus Public Land Management
Act of 2009, which passed with bipartisan support.
"I want to get this package done before Congress adjourns," Reid said
in a statement Friday announcing he filed the bill. Just the day
before, Reid had sounded less enthused. "I'm not sure we can get that
done now," Reid said. "I sure would like to get it done, but I'm not
sure we can."
Reid struck a decidedly different tone Friday. "These are bipartisan
bills," he said. "There is nothing divisive about protecting historic
battlefields, improving our most critical water sources or making sure
that our best wildlife habitat remains wild and healthy."
Inhofe has specifically criticized one measure in the bill intended
to help bolster new EPA efforts to protect and restore the Chesapeake
Bay. He said that provision could serve as a model for water pollution
regulation that would ultimately hurt the agriculture industry in
other parts of the nation.
Hastings leveled broader criticism at the omnibus, saying wilderness
measures would lock up public land from motorized access and energy
production and could complicate the U.S. Border Patrol's ability to
prevent illegal immigration and smuggling.
While Hastings did not identify particular bills, wilderness critics
have targeted Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Jeff Bingaman's
(D-N.M.) "Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks Wilderness Act," which would
protect 270,000 acres of wilderness and 110,000 acres as a national
conservation area along the New Mexican border with Mexico.
The bill, which Bingaman's panel passed unanimously this summer,
includes a 5-mile buffer area to allow Border Patrol to conduct
routine patrols and construct communication and surveillance
infrastructure.
In a June letter, Border Patrol Commissioner Alan Bersin said the
proposal "would significantly enhance the flexibility" of the agency
to do its job, adding that Bingaman's "collaborative process should
be a model for future consideration of wilderness designation along
the border."
Other wilderness proposals in the omnibus would ban logging and road
development in the Devil's Staircase in Oregon, expand the Alpine
Lakes Wilderness in Washington and extend the Middle Fork Snoqualmie
River and Pratt River wild and scenic rivers.
Taken together, the bills' 320,000 acres of wilderness are only a
fraction of the 2.1 million acres of new wilderness areas in nine
states created under the 2009 public lands omnibus.
The omnibus also includes bills that would create or expand national
parks and monuments, including a committee-passed proposal to
designate the Valles Caldera National Preserve in New Mexico as a
unit of the National Park System and a separate proposal to create
the Waco Mammoth National Monument in Texas.
A bill pushed by Montana Democratic Sens. Jon Tester and Max Baucus
would ban future mineral leasing and hardrock mining claims in a
critical watershed bordering Montana's Glacier National Park.
A notable absence in the omnibus is a controversial proposal backed
by Arizona Republican Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl to promote a
massive Arizona copper mine on land that is currently part of the
Tonto National Forest.
The bill, which was included in an earlier public lands omnibus
draft, would allow the Forest Service to swap about 4,000 acres of
the Tonto National Forest to build the mine in exchange for more than
5,500 acres of Resolution Copper's private holdings. That is opposed
by American Indian tribes and Arizona's Democratic lawmakers.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
More on the Reid-Pelosi Omnibus Federal Land and Water Bill
Three key events have happened:
-----A. Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader, has said he will bring
the Senate back between Christmas and New Years to pass the Omnibus
Federal Lands bill if it doesn’t pass before. That is very bad for
you..
-----B. The Corps and EPA Wetlands Jurisdiction Bill (S 787) called
the Clean Water Restoration Act in the Senate, has just been reported
out of Committee and now could be added to the Omnibus Federal Land
And Water Bill. We’ve been telling you that could happen for weeks.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-----Several Key Points To Make To Your Senators:
-----1. Oppose Any Omnibus Federal Land And Water Bill. Insist that
each bill be voted on individually and not as a giant package of
hundreds of bill.
-----2. Do not add any Energy and Natural Resources Committee bills
to the Omnibus Federal Land and Water Bill.
-----3. Oppose any attempt to add S 787, the Clean Water Restoration
Act in the Senate, what we call the Corps and EPA Wetlands
Jurisdiction Land Grab, to any Omnibus Federal Lands Bill. This bill
was just reported out of the Environment and Public Works Committee.
-----4. Do not vote for any Omnibus Federal Land and Water Bill,
period. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has packed up hundreds of
unpassed bills into one giant Omnibus Bill with thousands of pages of
unread laws..
-----5. NO COMPROMISE. Tell the Republicans not to COMPROMISE on the
Omnibus Federal Lands bill. They must not vote for it even if Senator
Reid puts in one or more of their own bills into the Omnibus package.
They should not sell their vote (and sell you out) on the Omnibus to
get another bill passed.
-----6. No Senator has even read all bills in the proposed Omnibus
package. There are dozens of new Wilderness areas including the
Montana Wilderness Bill by Senator Tester.
-----7. There are hundreds of new parks, new land lock-ups of all
kinds. Likely to be included are the Billion Dollar LWCF Trust Fund
and Corps and EPA Land and Water Jurisdiction Grab (S 787)
-----You must urge your Senators to filibuster, place a hold on, or
otherwise delay the Omnibus Lands Bill. They must agree to vote
against it when it comes to a vote. The Senate has a limited amount
of time in the Lame Duck Session. Every day your Senator delays the
bill gives rural America a better chance to survive this onslaught.
-----Do Not Make The Mistake Of Ignoring the Omnibus Lands Bill
because it does not yet have a number. Harry Reid is trying to keep
the bill in secret.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Be sure to go to www.landrights.org <http://www.landrights.org/>
for more information on the Omnibus Federal Lands Bill. You can get
the list of Senators to call, fax and e-mail on the website.
The 2010 Omnibus Federal Lands Bill will include hundreds of bills
that threaten you. The worst are the LWCF Billion Dollar Trust Fund
and the Corps and EPA Wetlands Jurisdiction Land Grab.
-----Don’t allow the Omnibus Lands Bill Sneak Attack In Lame Duck
Congress. It is unbelievable how much you will lose if it passes.
The Omnibus Federal Lands bill as well as the LWCF Billion Dollar
Trust Fund and the Corps and EPA Wetlands Land and Water Jurisdiction
Grab bill can be stopped but you and ALRA as well as many other groups
as possible must participate.
Nothing is more dangerous to you than a Lame Duck session. That is
because many Congressmen and Senators have either lost their
elections or have retired but still come back and vote.
They are no longer responsible to you.
December 2010
Sincerely,
Chuck Cushman
American Land Rights Association
Keep Private Lands In Private Hands Coalition
(360) 687-3087
ccushman@pacifier.com <mailto:ccushman@pacifier.com>
P.S. Your must forward this message to your whole e-mail list. You
must deluge your Senators and Congressman with calls, faxes and
e-mails opposing the 2010 Omnibus Federal Lands Bill. You must also
mention the LWCF Billion Dollar Trust fund and the Corps and EPA
Wetlands Jurisdiction Land Grab. Also oppose EPA’s Chesapeake Bay
Program bill.
If you know of others who would like to receive these alerts, reply
with their e-mail addresses.
Please forward this message as widely as possible. This is a historic
issue.
It is incredibly important for you to forward this message. By
forwarding the message, you can help get millions of copies of this
critically important e-mail distributed. Thank you in advance for
your help.