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House Clerk: the house will be in order. for what purpose does the gentleman from west virginia rise? mr. rahall: mr. speaker, pursuant to house resolution 280, i move to take from the speaker's table the bill h.r. 146, with the senate amendments thereto and i have a motion at the desk. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. designate the senate amendments and designate the motion. the clerk: h.r. 146, an act to

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House Clerk: establish a battlefield acquisition grant program for the acquisition and protection of nationally significant battlefields and associated sites of the revolutionary war and the war of 1812, and for other purposes. senate amendments, mr. rahall of west virginia moves that the house concur in the amendments

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, mr. rahall, and the gentleman from washington, mr. hastings, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizings the gentleman from west virginia. mr. rahall: i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on the matter under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without mr. hastings: mr. speaker, the house is not in order. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is correct.

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Nick J. Rahall: the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is correct. the house will be in order. members will please remove their conversations off the floor. the gentleman will continue. mr. rahall: thank you, mr. speaker.

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Nick J. Rahall: strengthen the national park system, restore our national forest, preserve our wild and scenic rivers, protect our sacred battlefields, and restore balance, restore balance to the management of our public lands. after nearly a decade during which our parks were taken for granted, and our range lands were scarred by spider web of roads and well pads, after

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Nick J. Rahall: free flowing rivers, establish new park units, and guarantee abundant, clean water for thousands of families and more. at a time when so much of the news is bad, when so much about our future seems uncertain, enactment of this public lands bill will serve as a reminder that our nation is truly blessed and that no matter what happens,

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Nick J. Rahall: this package costs a great deal of money. the congressional budget office has made it clear it does not. we were told that this is a big federal land grab but members now understand that this package contains no condemn nation or taking of land of any kind. we were told this package contained a provision that would put children in jail for

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Nick J. Rahall: are petty by comparison. that is why an overwhelming and bipartisan majority of 77 members of the other body and 282 members of this house have already voted for this bill. we've all heard the saying, that which does not kill us makes us stronger. atte packing an have failed. making our commitment to --

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Doc Hastings: this bill to the president for his signature and i balanc the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from washington, mr. hastings. mr. hastings: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i use my -- i yield myself as much time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized.

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Doc Hastings: mr. hastings: mr. speaker, this bill has gone through quite a process analthough this bill contains several pieces of legislation and three parts of this omnibus bil might add, the negatives in this bill and the failure to conser it under regular order of any kind have opened inclusive process outweigh any reason in my mind to vote for it.

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Doc Hastings: however, we have been blocked at every opportunity from participating in this process. this package is largely a product of closed-door deal making. it is designed to ensure that just enough congressional districts receive something to induce support for very controversial measures that

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Doc Hastings: familiar to some people. it's a large, large bill. and of that, only this amount has been considered by the house. it seem it's like -- seems like we haven't learned from what past experience has taught us

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Doc Hastings: for an ailing economy. before the house rejected this package under suspension of the rules, our friends othe other side of the aisle argue that this bill is just what america needs in difficult times. well, it seems to me the discussion in this new congress has been around the economy and a need for american jobs and i

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Doc Hastings: and the few jobs that will be far outnumber the jobs that would be killed by this bill. are our memories so short that we have forgotten the energy crisis of just last summer? and the role that it played in the economic downturn that we speernlsed in the second half of last year? evidently the democrat

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Doc Hastings: more than three million acres of public land are permanently locked away from energy development. now these are public lands in a time when our economy is slowing, in a time when we need to try to get the economy going d no sector could be better i think than the energy sector,

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Doc Hastings: congress, is stockpiling lands to block energy production. h.r. 146 has many other problems. it could, and i say could, result in a ban on the use of vehicles and other technology to patrol the u.s. border. it bans recreational access to

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Doc Hastings: to protect second amendment rights in parks, in wildlife refugees -- refuges. in other words, to make consistent our laws on public lands. h.r. 146 even hurts civil liberties. it could mean jail time and for

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Doc Hastings: federal crimes using language that is so broad that the provisions could cover innocent human error, end quote. these organizations also say that, and again i'm quoting, above all, we are concerned that a bill containing new

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Doc Hastings: this is a bill that came over, again over 1,100 pages, from the senate. so this wasn't even marked up and it has these provisions in it. i just have to ask you, mr. speaker, does this sound familiar? none of the several committees in the jurisdiction over this bill have any hearings on the troubling provisions within

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Doc Hastings: concerns and let's have a vote. and i understand how that work we have three buttons but i generally only press two, yes and no. and whoever has the most votes prevails. but we have been denied even that basic opportunity in the people's house on this bill. the amendments i offered, for example, last night in the rules committee that were

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Doc Hastings: that have been crafted. but for those provisions in the bill that have some dissention, some diffe then let's discuss that and then we can have a vote in which -- and which ever side prevails prevails. that's the wayhe people's house ought to work. but once again that process is being denied with this huge bill that is slightly larger, i

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Jason Altmire: not worthy of my support and i urge my colleagues to vote no. with that i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from west virginia. mr. rahall: thank you, mr. speaker. i'm happy to yield one minute to the gentleman from has helped us scraft some important language in this bill

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Jason Altmire: national riffle association. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. altmire: i thank the gentleman and i rise today in support of the public landed bill which includes my amendment to -- lands bill which includes my amendment to protect our nation's sportsmen. the language that i worked to include in today's bill is a hard-fought victory for sportsmen and the preservation of their access to public lands.

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Jason Altmire: wavering supporter of this second amendment -- unwavering supporter of this second amendment. however, that decision does not in any way relate to my amendment and it certainly doesn't create a loophole. i agree that the right to carry issue is vitally important but it's a separate issue based on

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Doc Hastings: of our nation's sportsmen and their ability to hunt, fish and trap on millions acres of public land. the language i worked to include makes it clear that the fundamental rights are colleagues to support this bill. mr. hastings: the n.r.a. does not endorse this bill.

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Doc Hastings: the n.r.a. endorses the gentleman's amendment that he you are aed two weeks ago but they do not endorse this bill and i ask unanimous consent to insert their statement into the record. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. hastings: with that, mr. speaker, i'm pleased to yield five minutes to the gentleman from california, a new member, a new member of the resources committee.

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Tom McClintock: i think the federal government is starting to resemble that farmer. h.r. 146 is a massive land grab that would literally put more land in the united states into wilderness designation than we currently have actually developed from coast-to-coast. that pretty much means no human activities other than walking through it, as long as you don't touch anything. so i have to ask the question,

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Tom McClintock: when is enough the federal government alrdy owns nearly 650 million acres of land. that's 30% of the entire land area of the united states. it owns 45% of my home state of california. now compare district of columbia. washington, d.c., the federal

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Tom McClintock: earmarks like $3.5 million to celebrate the birthday of saint augustine, florida, and a quarter million dollars to decide, to decide what we're going to do with alexander hamilton's boyhood home in the virgin islands. now, $1 billion of the $10 billion of this bill is for

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Tom McClintock: be incurred by central valley farmers as water that's already in critically short supply that's diverted to this project. overall this bill spends $10 biion of people's earnings in real world numbers that means about $130 from an average family of four through their taxes. .