Today, Members of the Congressional Western Caucus including Chairman Paul Gosar (AZ-04), Executive Vice Chairman Scott Tipton (CO-03), House Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01) Chief Infrastructure and Forestry Officer Bruce Westerman (AR-04), Chief Regulatory Reform Officer Andy Biggs (AZ-05), Chairman Emeritus Steve Pearce (NM-02), Vice-Chairman for Indian Affairs and Oceans Don Young (AK-At Large), House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chairman Greg Walden (OR-02) and Western Caucus Members Debbie Lesko (AZ-08), Mike Johnson (LA-04), Ralph Norman (SC-05), Greg Gianforte (MT-At Large), Markwayne Mullin (OK-02), Doug LaMalfa (CA-01), Kevin Cramer (ND-At Large), Ron Estes (KS-04), Roger Marshall (KS-01) and Doug Collins (GA-09) released statements after Members of Congress introduced a bipartisan slate of nine bills enjoying over 115 endorsing national and regional organizations - dubbed the "Western Caucus Endangered Species Act Modernization Package" - which delivers broad and long-overdue improvements to the underlying Act.
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Today, Members of the Congressional Western Caucus including Chairman Paul Gosar (AZ-04), Chief Infrastructure and Forestry Officer Bruce Westerman (AR-04) and Members Tom Emmer (MN-06) and Kevin Cramer (ND-At Large) released statements after President Trump announced at a rally last night in Duluth, Minnesota that he would be cancelling the Obama Administration's political mineral withdrawal in the Superior National Forest.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Members of the Congressional Western Caucus including Chairman Paul Gosar (AZ-04), House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01), Vice Chairman for Indian Affairs and Oceans Don Young (AK-At Large), Chief Infrastructure and Forestry Officer Bruce Westerman (AR-04) and Congressman Doug LaMalfa (CA-01) released statements after the White House's Council on Environmental Quality published an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking indicating its intent to consider revising regulations governing implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
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Today, Congressional Western Caucus Member Liz Cheney (WY-At Large) released a statement after her Amendment #106 to H.R. 2 - which would ensure all efforts are made by grazing lease-issuing agencies to replace or otherwise maintain grazing permits that are rendered valueless due to natural disaster, wildlife conflict or court injunction - passed the Floor of the U.S. House of Representatives by unanimous voice vote last Thursday.
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Today, Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Paul Gosar (AZ-04), Vice-Chairman for Policy and Appropriations Mark Amodei (NV-02), Chief Regulatory Reform Officer Andy Biggs (AZ-05), Western Caucus Members Doug LaMalfa (CA-01) and Tom Emmer (MN-06) and Americans for Limited Government President Rick Manning released statements after Congressman Amodei's Amendment #122 to the NDAA which would facilitate streamlined permitting for critical and strategic minerals passed the Floor of the House of a Representatives on a bipartisan vote of 229-183.
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Today, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the American Petroleum Institute, the National Association of Manufacturers, Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Paul A. Gosar D.D.S. (AZ-04), Chief Rules Officer Dan Newhouse (WA-04), Chief Infrastructure and Forestry Officer Bruce Westerman (AR-04), Chairman Emeritus Steve Pearce (NM-02), and Western Caucus Members Doug LaMalfa (CA-01), Louie Gohmert (TX-01), Greg Gianforte (MT-At Large), Brian Babin (TX-36), Tom Emmer (MN-06), and Bob Gibbs (OH-07) released statements calling on appropriations negotiators and Congressional leadership to include language to address the job-killing 2015 Obama-era Ozone rule and other Western Caucus priorities in the fiscal year 2018 omnibus funding bill.
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Today, Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Paul A. Gosar D.D.S. (AZ-04), Executive Vice-Chairman Scott Tipton (CO-03), Chief Rules Officer Dan Newhouse (WA-04), Chief Infrastructure and Forestry Officer Bruce Westerman (AR-04), Chief Regulatory Reform Officer Andy Biggs (AZ-05), Chairmen Emeritus Steve Pearce (NM-02) and Rob Bishop (UT-01), and Western Caucus Members Ralph Norman (SC-05), Jeff Denham (CA-10), Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA-03), Liz Cheney (WY-AL), Markwayne Mullin (OK-02), Doug LaMalfa (CA-01), Mike Johnson (LA-04), Doug Lamborn (CO-05), Tom Emmer (MN-06), Brian Babin (TX-36) released statements calling on Congress to act immediately to roll back the Obama Administration's Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule after the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals lifted the nationwide stay that was in effect for the regulation.
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Today, Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Paul A. Gosar D.D.S. (AZ-04), Chief Regulatory Reform Officer Andy Biggs (AZ-05), Western Caucus Members Doug LaMalfa (CA-01) and Roger Marshall (KS-01), and Representative David B. McKinley (WV-01) released statements after 44 Members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to the Chairmen and Ranking Members of the Senate and House Appropriations Committee urging appropriators to reject a land grab provision proposed by Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) that would skirt normal permitting processes to prevent a 56-million-ton California sand and gravel mine from opening.
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Today, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (CA-23), Western Caucus members Doug Collins (GA-09), Jason Smith (MO-08) and Blake Farenthold (TX-27), Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Paul A. Gosar D.D.S. (AZ-04), Chairman Emeritus Steve Pearce (NM-02), Chief Infrastructure and Forestry Officer Bruce Westerman (AR-04), and Western Caucus members Kevin Cramer (ND-At Large), Liz Cheney (WY-At Large), Markwayne Mullin (OK-02) and Greg Gianforte (MT-At Large) issued the following press release after EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt issued an Agency-wide directive today designed to end “sue and settle” practices within the Agency
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Paul A. Gosar D.D.S. (AZ-04), Vice-Chairman for Indian Affairs and Oceans Don Young (AK-At Large), Chairman Emeritus Rob Bishop (UT-01), Chairman Emeritus Steve Pearce (NM-02), Chief Infrastructure and Forestry Officer Bruce Westerman (AR-04), Chief Defense and Interior Officer Chris Stewart (UT-02), Western Caucus members Doug LaMalfa (CA-01), Aumua Amata Radewagen (AS-At Large), Tom Emmer (MN-06), Paul Cook (CA-08), Doug Lamborn (CO-05) and Tom McClintock (CA-04) released statements after the House Committee on Natural Resources passed H.R. 3990, the National Monument Creation and Protection Act, legislation that modernizes the Antiquities Act of 1906.
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