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Hastings Announces Natural Resources Subcommittee Chairs

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House Natural Resources Committee Chairman-elect Doc Hastings (WA-04) today named subcommittee chairmen for the 112th Congress. He also announced the establishment a new Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs. Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the Constitution delegates to Congress the power to regulate trade with Indian tribes, and in the House of Representatives the Natural…

Reid-Boxer Omnibus Filled with a Hundred Bills, Billions of Dollars in New Spending

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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senator Barbara Boxer are moving forward with their plan to pass a massive land, wildlife and water omnibus package in the final days of the lame-duck Congress. This colossal bill will cost billions of dollars and include over a hundred measures that will create new spending programs, cost jobs, harm our economy, expand the power of the EPA,…

Hastings: ‘Reid-Boxer Omnibus needs to be blocked, shelved or defeated'

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Natural Resources Committee Chairman-elect Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement after U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced intentions to pass a public lands and waterways omnibus bill crafted by himself and Senator Barbara Boxer during the final days of the lame-duck Democrat Congress:

Hastings Selected as Chairman of the Natural Resources Committee

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House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement after the Republican Conference selected him to serve as Chairman of the Natural Resources Committee in the 112th Congress: “I’m honored to have been selected as Chairman and will work hard with my Republican colleagues to serve the American people and address their top priorities. …

Hastings Blasts Lame Duck Democrats’ Attempt to Push Through Massive Omnibus Package

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House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement following reports of a potential omnibus lands, wildlife and waterways package being developed in the U.S. Senate: “Somewhere in the Senate, Harry Reid and Barbara Boxer are secretly constructing a Frankenstein omnibus of bills from three separate Committees.  Democrat leaders are…

Ranking Member Hastings Proposes Creation of Energy and Natural Resources Committee

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House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) sent the following letter to Members of the House Republican Conference of the 112th Congress proposing the creation of an Energy and Natural Resources Committee by consolidating the energy portfolio from the Energy and Commerce Committee to the Natural Resources Committee. In asking his colleagues to consider the…

Hastings Outlines Natural Resources Committee Priorities

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House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings (WA-04) outlined the following broad priorities for the Republican Majority on the Natural Resources Committee.  Hastings is seeking to become Chairman of the Committee in the 112th Congress. “Now is the time for Republicans to get to work and prove that we have truly listened to the American people. “Like all committees, one…

Associated Press: A look at who got gov't Gulf work

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AP ENTERPRISE: A look at who got gov't Gulf work Associated Press Sharon Theimer Monday, September 13, 2010 WASHINGTON – The federal government hired a New Orleans man for $18,000 to appraise whether news stories about its actions in the Gulf oil spill were positive or negative for the Obama administration, which was keenly sensitive to comparisons between its response and former…