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In Case You Missed It…
Dec 10, 2009
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"The concern we hear back home is that this legislation would grant virtually unlimited regulatory control over all wet areas within a state. This bill attempts to trump state's rights and pre-empts state and local governments from making local land- and water-use decisions," Western lawmakers said ...
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In Case You Missed It
Dec 10, 2009
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"I could not imagine any situation as dangerous and threatening to this country as what we're seeing along the border, especially in Arizona. Any country, to be sovereign, has to at least control its land. You cannot turn over areas to drug cartels, with the potential of terrorists coming through, a...
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Bishop blasts EPA action
Dec 8, 2009
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The Obama administration took a major step Monday toward imposing the first federal limits on climate-changing pollution from cars, power plants and factories, declaring there is compelling scientific evidence that global warming from man-made greenhouse gases endangers Americans' health. The announ...
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Western Lawmakers Draw Line in Sand Over Clean Water Restoration Act
Dec 8, 2009
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In a letter sent today to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Members of the House and Senate Western Caucuses cited concerns over job loss and regulatory overreach in expressing their strong objections to the Clean Water Restoration Act (CWRA) (S.787). Th...
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Documents identify terrorism threat in border gaps
Dec 7, 2009
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By Thomas Burr, The Salt Lake Tribune Washington » Shortly after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, a secret government report highlighted a way terrorists might easily enter the United States carting weapons of mass destruction. It wasn't by air or sea. The classified analysis pointed to an a...
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EPA Takes Divisive Steps to Regulate Greenhouse Gases
Dec 7, 2009
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(Washington, D.C.) –Congressman Rob Bishop (R-UT), Chairman of the Congressional Western Caucus, responded to the historic announcement made today by the EPA laying the groundwork to regulate greenhouse gases. “Today the EPA has attacked the American economy in a way that will long be remembered. It...
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Rep. Bishop Responds to President Obama’s Plan for U.S. Military Efforts in Afghanistan
Dec 1, 2009
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Congressman Rob Bishop (UT-01), a member of the House Armed Services Committee, issued the following statement regarding President Barack Obama’s speech on U.S. military efforts in Afghanistan. “I feel like we’re in the days of the Johnson administration – with domestic spending out of control and m...
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This Just In: Utah’s 4th Congressional District Gets $1,124,614 in Stimulus Funding
Nov 17, 2009
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After continued talk of the Obama Administration’s successes of saving or creating millions of jobs across the country and in Utah, Congressman Rob Bishop (UT-01) today decided to check out how Utah fared from the Economic Recovery Act on Recovery.gov, a website hosted by Vice President Joe Biden an...
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In Case You Missed It...
Nov 17, 2009
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano stated in a letter to Congressman Rob Bishop that increased access to remote wilderness areas will be critical to the U.S. Border Patrol’s ability to apprehend drug traffickers as they use wilderness areas as corridors to transport drugs and money between...
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In Case You Missed It...
Nov 16, 2009
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- In a remarkably candid letter to members of Congress, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said her department could have to delay pursuits of illegal immigrants while waiting for horses to be brought in so agents don't trample protected lands, and warns that illegal immigrants will increa...
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