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Bills would push for more logging in national forests

22 hours ago ago from The Wilderness Sportsman

These bills should have a tough time thanks to the democratic House Committee on Natural Resources. That's what you would expect, anyway. U.S. Rep. Greg Walden said Tuesday the bill to expand thinning projects faces an uphill battle in the House Committee on Natural Resources, even with bipartisan support. But the Oregon Republican said the huge backlog in the backcountry on national forests needs to be addressed. Link

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Bust This Trust

18 hours ago ago from Rooster Talk

House panel passes college football playoff bill WASHINGTON – A House subcommittee approved legislation Wednesday aimed at forcing college football to switch to a playoff system to determine its national champion, over the objections of some lawmakers who said Congress has meatier targets to tackle. The bill, which faces steep odds, would ban the promotion of a postseason NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision game as a national ...

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The Obama Admin is blocking a review of the Fort Hood shootings by Congress

11 hours ago ago from Federal Jack

(FOXNEWS)   The White House has been sitting on a preliminary review of the Fort Hood shooting since the end of November and refuses to share its contents with Congress, House Republicans say. Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee have been pressing the Obama administration to either provide a copy of the review or brief them on it, arguing that it's important for relevant members to be in the loop as the review goes forward. ...

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Perry - Thompson’s ethics investigations

7 hours ago ago from Yall Politics

Perry - Thompson's ethics investigations But last week the Washington Post called into question another investigation by Thompson that might not cross the Homeland Security threshold, and that a former Thompson staffer alleges was in fact a shakedown for campaign contributions. The committee had previously never addressed credit card issues - usually the domain of the House Financial Services Committee - but Thompson called a hearing on ...

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Pettys: Quiet seethings boiling up for House GOP

9 hours ago ago from Lucid Idiocy (politics)

Dick Pettys sets the board for Friday's GOP caucus meeting: Watch for some serious hardball from the current power-wielders, including a proposed rules change that would expel from Caucus membership any Republican who fails to support the party’s nominee for Speaker in January. Hey, you guys gotta do what you gotta do. But, as Grift Drift might say , that sounds like a potentially serious failure to understand the first rule of holes. More ...

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After walkout, black caucus gets what it wanted

12 hours ago ago from PopEater

WASHINGTON -Call it the $4 billion boycott. By boycotting a key House committee vote last week and threatening to abandon support for banking regulations, members of the Congressional Black Caucus got $4 billion added to legislation to overhaul government oversight of Wall Street. House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank, D-Mass., this week inserted $3 billion to the legislation to provide low-interest loans to unemployed ...

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