Latta, B rep
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</span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">amends tosca, set up a comm but gets rid of existing one?</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.201919555664063px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">H.R. 3590 was sponsored by Congressman Bob Latta (R-OH) and the 87 co-sponsors include Congressmen Benishek, Huizenga, and Walberg and Congresswoman Miller from the Michigan delegation</span></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportsmen%E2%80%99s_Heritage_And_Recreational_Enhancement_Act_of_2013(H.R.3590;113th_Congress)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportsmen%E2%80%99s_Heritage_And_Recreational_Enhancement_Act_of_2013(H.R.3590;113th_Congress)</a>
<div>CBD:</div><div><p align="center" class="headline" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>Republicans Push Lead Poisoning of Wildlife Disguised as "Sportsmen's Heritage Act"</strong></p><p align="center" class="headline" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><em>Legislation Would Also Roll Back Public-lands Protection, Promote Polar Bear Trophy Hunting</em></strong></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">WASHINGTON— The U.S. House of Representatives will vote Tuesday on H.R. 3590, the misnamed “Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act.” Under the guise of expanding hunting and fishing access on public lands, the Republican-supported bill aims to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from protecting millions of birds and other animals from lead poisoning. The extremist legislation also contains provisions to undermine the Wilderness Act, dispense with environmental review for projects on national wildlife refuges, and promote polar bear hunting</p></div></div></div><div><span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">It's so tempting to call the overwhelming majority of the 17 Republican members of the House Energy and Power Subcommittee dunces, doofuses, know-nothings, nincompoops, ignoramuses or cuckoo birds when it comes to climate change. If you watched even a brief part of Wednesday's </span><a href="http://www.nationalmemo.com/moniz-mccarthy-fight-off-climate-change-deniers-at-house-hearing/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">hearing</a><span style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> on the subject with Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy testifying, you can see that this GOP crew most certainly qualifies for any and all those descriptors.</span><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Indeed, 14 of them are outright climate change deniers. Total scientific illiterates. Or at least pretending to be by carrying water for the fossil fuel companies that have spent hundreds of millions of dollars over two decades injecting disinformation into public discourse about climate change and smearing scientists whose research showed that it <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">is</em> happening and that it <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4;">is</em>human-caused. That was why several members of the audience <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/environmental-activists-wear-tinfoil-hats-to-republican-hear" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">donned tinfoil hats</a> to mock those committee members when they asked questions. The 14:</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://whitfield.house.gov/press-release/whitfield-blasts-use-false-science-copenhagen" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Chairman: Ed Whitfield</a> (Kentucky); <a href="http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2009/12/rep_scalise_voices_fresh_doubt.html" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Vice Chairman: Steve Scalise</a> (Louisiana); <a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/2011/12/ralph-hall-speaks-out-climate-change" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Ralph Hall</a>(Texas); <a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-112hhrg66704/html/CHRG-112hhrg66704.htm" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Michael C. Burgess, M.D.</a> (Texas); <a href="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/clip/3680018" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Pete Olson</a> (Texas); <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/10/rep-joe-barton-biblical-great-flood-shows-climate-change-isnt-man-made/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Joe Barton</a> (Texas); <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_7h08RDYA5E" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">John Shimkus</a> (Illinois); <a href="http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/xl-pipeline-pros-and-cons-11446071" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Lee Terry</a> (Nebraska); <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2011/12/16/390886/republican-house-profits-over-public-health/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Bill Cassidy</a> (Louisiana); <a href="http://blogs.wvgazette.com/coaltattoo/2010/10/20/1st-district-update-more-west-virginia-politicians-ignore-the-mounting-science-about-global-warming/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">David McKinley</a> (West Virginia); <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2010/09/21/206758/house-races-climate-change-global-warming/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Cory Gardner</a> (Colorado); <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2011/03/15/174947/koch-committee-climate-denial/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Mike Pompeo</a> (Kansas); <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1MUMKQlLtM" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Morgan Griffith</a> (Virginia); and<a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/02/08/142997/upton-climate-denier/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(124, 71, 12); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Fred Upton</a> (Michigan).</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Three other Republican members on the subcommittee, Joseph R. Pitts of Pennsylvania, Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and Bob Latta of Ohio have not directly denied that human-made climate change is happening. But on related issues they vote just like the outright deniers.</p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">These aren't the only deniers on the subcommittee. There's also John Barrow of Georgia, one of the few remaining Blue Dog Democrats in Congress.</p></div>