Mike Simpson
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Fiscal Year 2012 – House Interior-Environment Appropriations Bill – Part 2 In an another example of paying for tax cuts to billionaires with deregulation and spending cuts, the House Interior-Environment Appropriations Bill released yesterday, which limits judicial review of future wolf delisting rules in Wyoming and the Western Great Lakes, would also effectively gut the…
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Fiscal Year 2012 – House Interior-Environment Appropriations Bill – Part 1 Today the Fiscal Year 2012 Interior-Environment Appropriations Bill was released by the House Appropriations Committee. The bill is a very long and complicated bill which reduces all kinds of environmental protections and agency accountability to the public. Over the next few days we will be…
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President Obama will sign the bill into law and wolves will no longer enjoy the protection of the Endangered Species Act. The House and Senate passed a budget bill which included the rider to delist wolves in Idaho, Montana and parts of Oregon, Washington, and Utah but leaves the status of wolves in Wyoming unchanged.…
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Delists wolves in Northern Rockies but leaves out Wyoming. The GOP in the House of Representatives is starting to work on their version of a continuing budget resolution that would be needed to fund the government until a formal budget is passed to fund government agencies. Another way to fund the government could come in…
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Simpson writes Otter a letter- Rocky Barker has an important column on this many-years-in-the-making-“wilderness” bill. Simpson addresses Otter’s concerns about wilderness bill. Letters from the West. Idaho Statesman. By Rocky Barker. It looks to be that Rep. Simpson mostly just reassures the governor and promises him no changes in the language of the bill. After…
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This is about Idaho drinking water and also how Idaho’s Representative Simpson is the one who really gets things done- I thought it was kind of funny because I read it while I was waiting for my new Brita water filter to soak 15 minutes. They say Brita removes arsenic 😉 Editorial: Otter makes headlines,…
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There is an important story in the WWP blog. Idaho’s one kinda moderate member of Congress (Rep. Mike Simpson, 2nd district) is stepping in to fill Craig’s stance on grazing and wildfires.