Thursday, March 16, 2017

GOP Kicks Off Effort To Roll Back Obama’s Monument Designations

Via Billy

NEWPORT, WALES - SEPTEMBER 05:  US President Barack Obama listens to speeches at the NATO Summit on September 5, 2014 in Newport, Wales. Leaders and senior ministers from around 60 countries are meeting on the final day of the two day summit with Afghanistan and Ukraine at the top of the agenda.  (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid - WPA Pool /Getty Images)

House lawmakers kicked off their effort to push back against national monuments designations, targeting the large swaths of ocean the Obama administration made off limits to fishing.

“I don’t believe the Antiquities Act should have ever been applied to oceans,” Alaska Republican Rep. Don Young said during a Wednesday hearing on marine monument designations. “There was never intent of that.”

Republicans on the House Committee on Natural Resources have long criticized former President Barack Obama’s use of the Antiquities Act to put millions of square miles off limits to commercial fishing with little to no input from locals.

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