Credit Pacific Service Union U.S. Senate Democrats, concerned that a congressional bill modeled after the presidents Healthy Forests Initiative to expedite forest-thinning projects could be overkill, blocked it from reaching the floor Monday.
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Credit First Service Union The Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 passed the U.S. House of Representatives in May and is slowly working its way through the Senate. Also known as H.R. 1904, it would limit public appeals of federal forest-thinning proposals and allow loggers to take some large trees to offset the costs of such projects.
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Card Credit Discover Service Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., and Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., recently headed a bipartisan group to redraft parts of the bill, so Democrats would not filibuster in the Senate. Cochran requested a discussion of the newest version of the bill on the Senate floor Monday, which probably would have led to a vote. But Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., objected because Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., and other Democrats want more discussions on the bill in committee.
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Credit Public Service Union Domenici accused Democrats of being obstructionists.
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Card Credit Processing Service With these objections, we are fiddling around with forest policy while our forests and communities burn and are consumed by insects and disease, Domenici said after the stalemate on the Senate floor. I am tired of our fiddling around. We all know that this body must address this issue. We know that the bipartisan amendment is a good one that it is fair and balanced and good for our forests.
Center Credit Service Union Domenici is chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Bingaman is a ranking minority member of that committee.
Card Credit Service Wireless Bingaman said he has not taken a position on the new proposal that includes the Cochran-Domenici amendment because he does not know enough about it and the possible implications it may have.
Credit Security Service Union Bingaman requested a hearing in the Energy Committee last Thursday, but in what could appear as an end run around him and other Democrats, Cochran requested unanimous consent for the bills consideration Monday.
Credit Report Service Last week, I asked for a hearing in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Bingaman said, because this bill is very different from what the Senate Agricultural Committee approved a few months ago. I have questions about this plan, and Id like to get answers to them before we have a full Senate vote on it.
Blogspot Com Christian The bill eventually is headed back to the Senate Agriculture Committee, which Cochran chairs. Bingaman said he is hopeful the bill will arrive at the Senate Energy Committee in the next few weeks.
Christian Counseling Credit Decades of fire suppression and other factors resulted in some forests becoming too dense with trees, putting mountain communities and municipal watersheds at risk from forest fire.
Credit Federal Service Union Land managers consider more than 190 million acres of lands under the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Bureau of Land Management to be at risk from large-scale wildfires.
Credit Monitoring Service A project to thin national-forest lands surrounding Nichols and McClure reservoirs east of Santa Fe was in the planning stages for years and required lengthy environmental analyses and public input before work began about a year ago.
Credit Division Service Loggers have thinned more than 1,300 of 5,000 acres in the watershed so far, and thousands of additional acres are being eyed by foresters for thinning in the years to come. The Healthy Forests Restoration Act would allow work to begin almost immediately on about 20 million acres nationwide.
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The New Mexican - 10/21/2003
Topic: Fire
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