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WASHINGTON, D.C. –Rep. Kristi Noem today announced that she has helped introduce H.R. 4965, bipartisan legislation to prevent the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) from over-stepping their authority to regulate water in South Dakota and the United States. Read more »

On April 25th, the House Appropriations Committee passed the Fiscal Year 2013 Energy and Water Appropriations bill, which includes language authored by Congressman Doc Hastings to ensure that taxpayers are not responsible for the costs associated with the mitigation of the removal of Condit Dam. Read more »

WHITE CITY, Ore. — U.S. Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) today highlighted a group of House-passed energy bills intended to increase production, stop policies that drive up gas prices, and help create jobs. Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. –Rep. Kristi Noem (R-SD) issued the following statement after the Department of Labor announced it was withdrawing its proposed child farm labor rules, whichwould have banned kids from doing many everyday chores and jobs on farms and ranches. Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. –Rep. Kristi Noem today introducedlegislationto provide a dependable safety net for livestock owners in South Dakota and across the United States Read more »

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) today introduced legislation focused on strengthening the economy and creating jobs in the West. The Western Economic Security Today (WEST) Act incorporates several pieces of legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives that ARE awaiting action in the U.S. Senate Read more »

Washington, DC (April 23, 2012) Today, Congressman Steve Pearce called on the Obama Administration to not punish New Mexico for the mistakes other states have made regarding the listing of the Dunes Sagebrush Lizard. The listing would be detrimental to New Mexico’s agriculture and energy sectors, which create thousands of jobs in the state, and bring in millions of dollars in revenue to fund schools and other government programs in New Mexico. Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. –The Subcommittee on Energy and Minerals Resources will hold two field hearings in Colorado during the first week of May. Read more »

WASHINGTON– Upon learning of President Obama’s designation of a nearly 15,000 acre national monument located within Fort Ord, a former military base in California, National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Subcommittee Chairman Rob Bishop issued the following statement. Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Alaskan Congressman Don Youngvoted today for H.R. 4089, the Sportsmen's Heritage Act of 2012 a bill that includes, among other things, Rep. Young’s provisionthat would allow for the importation of polar bear trophies that were hunted and harvested legally in Canada before the polar bear was listed as “threatened” in 2008. Read more »