Is Congress Fiddling As Obama Usurps Its Authority?
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation held a legislative hearing on nine bills to prevent the President from unilaterally designating National Monuments under the century-old Antiquities Act and to ensure greater public participation in the process.
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Here Are Some Useful National Ocean Policy Coalition Quick Links. The NOPC seeks to better educate Americans about the impact of such federal overreach.
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Since the President first created this entity by Executive Order — without Congressional enabling or budget legislation — we have feared for the result. America probably has the most tightly regulated water and air quality, commercial fishing, oil and gas, manufacturing, agriculture, transportation, etc. society in the world. Yet, with Marine Spatial Planning — as proposed by this plan — and the effective zoning of the oceans, America is about to place an additional matrix of control around economic wealth producers…and all without Congressional consent.
We believe the Members of Congress fiddle while their branch of government and their authority are being ignored, disrespected and dismantled by an overreaching federal administration. Case in point (among many): The President established the National Ocean Policy, by Executive Order on July 19, 2010. This order created a National Ocean Council consisting of 27 Federal agencies and departments. It required those agencies to perform new tasks with money the Congress had budgeted for other purposes. It provided a mandate — without Congressional support — for agencies to divert Congressionally authorized personnel and focus to an unplanned, unauthorized program of environmental activism. The Council developed its so-called Implementation Plan over the past two years but was planning to execute the plan a year ago until the reelection effort intervened. White House bureaucrats have now succeeded in compelling massive contributions of time, personnel and treasury from countless national, regional, and local stakeholders representing all marine sectors; tribal, State, and local governments; the private sector, scientists, and the public. -dh |
The Make Alaska Competitive Coalition has circulated the following statement in wake of oil tax reform legislation that passed the legislature last weekend (Here is more):
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