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023176Blocking Attacks on Oil Leasing ReformDirty Energy

2023167Disapproving of LNG Export Infrastructure’s DenialDirty Energy, Environmental Justice

2023142Attacking the Clean Water Restoration RuleClean Water

2023124Ignoring Climate Risks to Retirement SavingsClimate Change, Dirty Energy, Other

202393Leasing More Public Lands and Waters for Oil DrillingDirty Energy, Public Lands & Oceans

202323Establishing Anti-Environment and Anti-Democracy House RulesClimate Change, Clean Energy, Clean Air, Clean Water, Environmental Justice, Appropriations, Justice & Democracy, Other

2022540Establishing National Heritage AreasPublic Lands/Forests, Environmental Justice, Other

2022513Protecting Marriage EqualityJustice & Democracy

2022449Improving Certification of Presidential Election ResultsJustice & Democracy

2022420Transformational Climate Investments (Inflation Reduction Act) (2X Score)Climate Change, Clean Energy, Clean Air, Environmental Justice

2022420Transformational Climate Investments (Inflation Reduction Act)Climate Change, Clean Energy, Clean Air, Environmental Justice

2022417Undermining Environmental Review for Data CentersEnvironmental Justice, Lands/Forests, Clean Air and Clean Water, Other

2022383Pro-Environment Funding PackageClean Air and Clean Water, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Other

2022371Attacking Environmental Programs and Funding PrioritiesClean Air and Clean Water, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Other

2022367Slashing Environmental FundingClean Air and Clean Water, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, Other

2022360Restoring the Right to Abortion AccessJustice & Democracy

2022346Protecting Public Lands and Waters Across the WestPublic Lands/Forests, Environmental Justice

2022345Protecting the Grand Canyon and Colorado’s Public LandsPublic Lands/Forests, Dirty Energy, Environmental Justice

2022337Establishing a White House Office of Climate ResilienceClimate Change

2022330Protecting People from Toxic IncinerationClean Air and Clean Water, Toxics/Public Right to Know

2022267Recovering America’s WildlifeLands/Forests, Wildlife

2022232Cracking Down on Oil Industry Price GougingDirty Energy, Drilling

202231Investing in Science and Domestic Clean Energy ManufacturingClean Energy, Climate Change

202227Attacking International Climate CollaborationClimate Change

20229Voting Rights and Democracy ReformsJustice & Democracy

2021427Supporting Tribal Management of BisonWildlife, Environmental Justice, Public Lands/Forests

2021385Transformative Climate, Jobs, and Justice Investments (2x Score)Climate Change, Air, Clean Energy, Environmental Justice, Transportation, Public Lands/Forests, Water, Other

2021385Transformative Climate, Jobs, and Justice InvestmentsClimate Change, Air, Clean Energy, Drilling, Environmental Justice, Public Lands/Forests, Transportation, Water, Other

2021379Censuring Paul GosarJustice & Democracy

2021272Taking Action on PFAS ContaminationToxics/Public Right to Know

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American Stewards of Liberty (ASL), a right-wing anti-conservation group, named Wisconsin in its 2024 strategic plan, stating it wants to stop federal funding of the recently established Pelican River Forest conservation easement.

With the help of U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany, the organization was heavily involved in the local effort to block the easement, going as far as drafting a letter officials in Forest, Langlade and Oneida counties sent to state and federal agencies opposing the easement on the grounds that it was approved without “coordination” with local government.

ASL regularly promotes the legal theory of coordination in which any efforts to conserve land must be done with the approval of local officials, yet the theory has been widely discredited by legal experts, including Wisconsin’s former Republican Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen.

The Pelican River Forest easement, the largest conservation project in Wisconsin history, was repeatedly thwarted by Republicans in the state Legislature who are sympathetic to ASL’s beliefs, including Sen. Mary Felzkowski (R-Irma). Under the project, 56,000 acres of land owned by the Conservation Fund have been put into an easement, protecting the land from development and excessive use of resources in perpetuity. The project was completed earlier this year using federal money.

Under the easement, the Pelican River Forest will remain a working forest for logging, yet not to the extent it might have been logged had it not been conserved. The easement will prevent efforts to mine the area but it will remain available for recreational uses. Local ATV and snowmobile clubs have retained access to paths through the forest.

Earlier this month, the first organized event in the Pelican River Forest took place, with mycologists from across the upper midwest coming to the area for the Wisconsin Mycological Society Foray in which 270 species of fungi were foraged, identified for research purposes and — for edible species — cooked to be served to attendees.

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After the project’s completion, ASL remained active in the state and its ideas have remained influential among county board members in the area around the forest. In April, ASL’s executive director, Margaret Byfield, spoke at a meeting of the Great Lakes Timber Professionals Association. At that appearance, Byfield railed against federal efforts to conserve land, claiming they’re just efforts by Democrats to “control” the country’s rural residents.

This summer, the county boards in the counties where the forest sits have begun rewriting their comprehensive land use plans with the explicit aim of stopping future efforts at creating conservation easements and promoting both more development and more opportunities for extractive industries such as logging and mining to take place.

ASL recently posted its 2024 strategic plan to its website before deleting it shortly after it went up. A copy of the plan was obtained by the Wisconsin Examiner. In the plan, the organization states it wants to “identify and support local leaders in areas under attack by the environmental community and administrative agencies.”

The organization, which is based in Texas and has traditionally focused on western states where the federal government owns much more of the land, specifically names Wisconsin as a focus for the next year.

“ASL is actively working with counties in Utah, New Mexico and Wisconsin to stop federal actions that are attempting to eliminate or significantly reduce the productive use of the natural resources,” the plan states. “In Wisconsin, it is to stop the federal funding of a conservation easement that will permanently restrict 56,000 acres of forest land from being fully utilized.”

The strategic plan also touts ASL’s involvement as a contributor to the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a nearly 1,000-page document outlining policy plans for a potential second term of former President Donald Trump. Project 2025 includes plans to fire thousands of civil servants across government agencies. The ASL plan states the organization is “serving to help develop executive and secretarial level policies that restore property rights for the Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture that will be ready to be implemented under the next conservative administration.”

Charles Carlin, director of strategic initiatives for Gathering Waters, a non-profit aimed at promoting the state’s land trusts and conserving natural areas, previously told the Examiner that ASL doesn’t understand Wisconsin.

“Groups like ASL don’t know Wisconsin and they don’t know our values. Wisconsin is the proud home of conservation champions across the political spectrum who know how caring for our land and water increases economic opportunity while ensuring that our kids and grandkids have clean air and water as well as wild places to play,” he said.

Right-wing opponent to conservation lists Wisconsin as part of 2024 plans *was originally published by Wisconsin Examiner.

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Tom Tiffany - Wikipedia

Thomas P. Tiffany (born December 30, 1957) is an American businessman and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Wisconsin's 7th congressional district since winning a special election in 2020. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served seven years in the Wisconsin Senate and two years in the State Assembly, representing the northeast region of the state.^[1]

Early life and education

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Tiffany was born in Wabasha, Minnesota, and grew up on a dairy farm near Elmwood, Pierce County, Wisconsin, with five brothers and two sisters.^[2] He graduated from Elmwood High School in 1976 and earned his B.S. in agricultural economics from the University of Wisconsin–River Falls in 1980.^[1]

Private career

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Tiffany managed the petroleum division of a farm cooperative in Plainview, Minnesota, before moving to Minocqua, Wisconsin, to manage Zenker Oil Company's petroleum distribution in 1988. He and his wife, Chris, have operated an excursion business on the Willow Flowage since 1991.^[3]

Tiffany served as the Town Supervisor of Little Rice, Wisconsin, from 2009 to 2013, and is an appointed member of the Oneida County Economic Development Corporation. In 2004 and 2008, he ran to represent the 12th district in the Wisconsin State Senate, first against Senator Roger Breske, and then Jim Holperin, losing both times in close elections. In 2010, he ran for the Wisconsin State Assembly after incumbent Donald Friske retired. Tiffany won the primary and defeated Democratic nominee Jay Schmelling, 58.09% to 41.81%.^[3]

In 2012, Tiffany chose not to seek reelection to the Assembly and instead to run again for the Senate after Holperin announced he would not run for reelection. He defeated Democrat Susan Sommer, 56% to 40%, in the general election.^[3][4]

Incumbent Representative Sean Duffy resigned on September 23, 2019, after his youngest daughter was diagnosed with a heart condition. Tiffany announced that he would run in a special election to succeed him. He won the February 18 Republican primary and defeated Wausau attorney Tricia Zunker in the May 12 special election.^[5]

2020

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Tiffany defeated Zunker in a rematch in the November 3 general election with 60.7% of the vote.

Tenure

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Tiffany was sworn in on May 19, 2020.^[6]

In December 2020, Tiffany was one of 126 Republican members of the House of Representatives to sign an amicus brief in support of Texas v. Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Court contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election, in which Joe Biden defeated^[7] incumbent Donald Trump. The Supreme Court declined to hear the case on the basis that Texas lacked standing under Article III of the Constitution to challenge the results of an election held by another state.^[8][9][10]

Tiffany was among the 120 House members, all Republicans, who objected to counting Arizona's and Pennsylvania's electoral votes in the 2020 presidential election.^[11] Representative Scott L. Fitzgerald joined Tiffany in this objection.^[12]

In June 2021, Tiffany was one of 14 House Republicans to vote against legislation to establish June 19, or Juneteenth, as a federal holiday.^[13]

Political positions

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Iraq

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In June 2021, Tiffany was one of 49 House Republicans to vote to repeal the AUMF against Iraq.^[14][15]

Syria

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In 2023, Tiffany was among 47 Republicans to vote in favor of H.Con.Res. 21, which directed President Joe Biden to remove U.S. troops from Syria within 180 days.^[16][17]

Russia

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On March 19, 2024, Tiffany voted NAY to House Resolution 149 Condemning the illegal abduction and forcible transfer of children from Ukraine to the Russian Federation. He was one of nine Republicans to do so.^[18]

Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023

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Tiffany was among the 71 Republicans who voted against final passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 in the House.^[19]

Committee assignments

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Committee on the Judiciary^[20]
Committee on Natural Resources^[20]

Caucus memberships

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Republican Study Committee^[21]
Congressional Dairy Farmer Caucus^[20]
Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus^[20]
Congressional Taiwan Caucus^[20]
Freedom Caucus^[22]

Personal life

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Tiffany and his wife, Christine, have three children.^[2]

Tiffany is Protestant.^[23]

Electoral history

Pandemic preparedness was a day one priority for the Biden-Harris Administration. Under this Administration’s leadership, the United States has coordinated global efforts to end the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic and ensure the international community is better prepared to respond to the next pandemic. The Administration strongly opposes H.R. 1425, which provides that any international instrument on pandemic prevention, preparedness, and response reached by World Health Organization (WHO) member states pursuant to the recommendations, report, or work of the International Negotiating Body (INB) established by the second special session of the World Health Assembly “is deemed to be a treaty” and require the advice and consent of the Senate. Presidents have historically taken a variety of approaches to making and carrying out international agreements, and this bill would improperly purport to constrain the President’s authority to do so in furthering the important work of achieving advancements, with the international community, to prevent, prepare for, and respond to pandemics. If enacted, this bill would undermine efforts by this Administration and future Administrations to better protect the United States by preventing international public emergencies like COVID-19 from happening again. The Administration will continue to engage with the Congress and adhere to well-established principles in assessing the outcome of the work of the INB as these negotiations continue.

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In Targeting Catholic Charities, Republicans Amplify Right-Wing Catholic Fringe

WASHINGTON (RNS) — On Capitol Hill, a handful of Republican lawmakers are threatening to reduce or eliminate funding for Catholic Charities and other faith-based groups who offer aid to immigrants at the Southern border.

The members of Congress, who are echoing the campaigns of deeply conservative Catholic groups that vow to “#defund the bishops,” have already succeeded in inserting their agenda into legislation passed by the House earlier this year. Another attempt to zero-out appropriations for a key Department of Homeland Security program supporting faith-based border efforts is awaiting a vote in Congress.

[Migrants reach through a border wall for clothing handed out by volunteers, as they wait between two border walls to apply for asylum, Friday, May 12, 2023, in San Diego. Hundreds of migrants remain waiting between the two walls, many for days. The U.S. entered a new immigration enforcement era Friday, ending a three-year-old asylum restriction and enacting a set of strict new rules that the Biden administration hopes will stabilize the U.S.-Mexico border and push migrants to apply for protections where they are, skipping the dangerous journey north. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

In December, Republican Rep. Lance Gooden of Texas, who serves on the House Judiciary Committee, penned a letter to DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. In the letter, co-signed by Reps. Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin and Jake Ellzey of Texas, the lawmakers complained that the Biden administration was “allowing non-governmental organizations … the freedom to aid and abet illegal aliens.” In addition, lawmakers also sent letters to Catholic Charities, Jewish Family Service and Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service demanding they preserve documents “related to any expenditures submitted for reimbursement from the federal government related to migrants encountered at the southern border.”

Contacted by Religion News Service at the time, Anthony Granado, vice president of government relations at Catholic Charities USA, said, “We have not seen such a level of direct … attack against Catholic Charities USA.”

In May, when Gooden penned another letter to Mayorkas, this time with Rep. Tom McClintock of California and Committee Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio, they accused the NGOs that use federal funds to aid immigrants of creating an “incentive” for illegal immigration and demanded access to a broad swath of records about DHS funding practices.

Days later, Gooden published an open letter to House colleagues that accused NGOs, including faith-based groups, of abusing their tax-exempt status by “play(ing) a disturbing role in the inflow and spread of illegal immigration throughout the country.”

Gooden, who worships at a Church of Christ congregation, expressed particular frustration with FEMA’s Emergency Food and Shelter Program — which is transitioning to an effort titled the Shelter and Services Program — that reimburses NGOs and local governments for offering certain aid to migrants. He singled out a number of faith-based groups in his solo letter, such as Jewish Family Services and LIRS, but criticized Catholic Charities at length.

For his part, Tiffany recently called for Catholic Charities USA to testify before the Judiciary Committee to explain “what they’re doing down on the border to facilitate this illegal immigration,” according to Bloomberg Government.

In a phone interview last week, Lee Williams, chief programs officer for Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, called the lawmakers’ allegations “preposterous” and “dangerous.” He also pointed out that LIRS aids immigrants after they are processed and released from U.S. Customs and Border Protection, work that is funded by private money.

Catholic Charities, for its part, receives ample government funds annually and operates as a network of local charities. In addition to anti-poverty programs, Catholic Charities also works with immigrants — including efforts to offer humanitarian aid to migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border.

It’s work that, not long ago, Republicans in Congress nearly uniformly praised. In 2014, amid a spike in border crossings by unaccompanied minors and mothers traveling with children, a delegation of Republican lawmakers led by talk-show host Glenn Beck visited a Catholic Charities respite center based in a church in McAllen, Texas. Sen. Ted Cruz, East Texas Rep. Randy Weber and then-Rep. Louie Gohmert, among others, toured the center and, in Beck’s case, donated toys to children.

“I want to thank Catholic Charities that are working to care for these children and care for these families,” Cruz told reporters at the time.

Weber was similarly effusive, quoting Scripture while describing the center’s work as a fulfillment of “the church’s role.”

Mistrust of faith groups that work with immigrants, but in particular Catholic Charities, has been growing in right-wing circles since at least February 2022, when CatholicVote, a conservative political group, sued the Biden administration in an effort to acquire copies of “all communications between the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol” and various Catholic bishops and Catholic Charities entities — including the respite center in McAllen.

The antipathy for Catholic Charities came up again last summer, when Michael Voris, founder of the conservative Catholic website Church Militant, interviewed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, a self-described Christian nationalist and former Catholic who converted to evangelicalism. Voris, whose organization has referred to Catholic Charities as an “enemy of the people,” complained to Greene about the American bishops supporting immigrant aid through religious agencies such as Catholic Relief Services and Catholic Charities. Greene responded by framing the work as “Satan controlling the church.”

Most recently, in Washington on Thursday (July 20), members of the Deposit of Faith Coalition, a group of activists who object to the direction the U.S. Catholic bishops are taking and accuse them of “standing with Marxists,” called on Congress — and particularly appropriations committees — to stop granting contracts to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Catholic Charities.

Addressing the crowd from a podium at the National Press Club that read “#DefundtheBishops,” Sheena Rodriguez, head of Alliance for a Safe Texas, insisted that Catholic Charities was one constellation of groups “incentiviz(ing) mass illegal migration worldwide” and “creating a modern-day slavery scheme.”

The gathering attracted only a small crowd, but their ideas have gained a footing on Capitol Hill. In April, Rodriguez was invited to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on border security, arguing that unaccompanied minors at the border were being mistreated under the Biden administration.

After her testimony, Rep. Eric Swalwell, a California Democrat, that Rodriguez was among the crowd that surrounded the U.S. Capitol when rioters attacked the building on Jan. 6, 2021, although there is no evidence Rodriguez entered the building that day. She had also taken part in the Christian nationalism-themed Jericho March at the Capitol the day before.

The movement to defund Catholic agencies also found its way into the GOP’s signature border security bill passed in May, known as the Secure the Border Act. It included a provision that would cut all funding to the Shelter Services Program.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops opposed the Secure the Border Act for multiple reasons, including how it treats DHS funding streams to NGOs. The bishops sent a letter to lawmakers urging them to vote against it. Sister Donna Markham, a Catholic nun who oversees Catholic Charities USA, also wrote a letter to congressional leadership at the time decrying the proposed cuts, saying they would “dismantle the public-private infrastructure currently in place to manage the humanitarian crisis at the southern border and its impact throughout the country.”

The bill passed the House largely along party lines, with Gooden, Tiffany and Weber all voting in favor.

The bill has little chance of passing the U.S. Senate, where Democrats enjoy a majority, but Gooden’s movement persists: Last month the House Appropriations Committee unveiled a DHS appropriations bill, which, like the border bill, eliminates funding for the Shelter and Services Program.

Markham said in a statement to RNS that the work of respite centers along the U.S.-Mexico border should be uncontroversial and invited members of Congress to tour their facilities.

“This work is humanitarian and motivated by the teachings of the gospels; it is not political, and it should not be controversial,” Markham’s statement read.

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Early life and education

Private career

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

2020 special

2020

Tenure

Political positions

Iraq

Syria

Russia

Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023

Committee assignments

Caucus memberships

Personal life

Electoral history

In Targeting Catholic Charities, Republicans Amplify Right-Wing Catholic Fringe