UPDATE
We read through the detailed bill summary on the House Appropriations Committee website.
It looks like the wolf rider has been pulled from the bill!! Will update you further if any wolf riders are detected before the final vote.
Summary: Fiscal Year 2012 Final Consolidated Appropriations Bill
These bad policies remain:
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
•Wolf monitoring and livestock loss programs are continued.
Give-aways-to-rancher barons
•A provision to reduce litigation on grazing issues
•A provision to renew and streamline grazing permits
•A provision to exempt livestock producers from overly burdensome greenhouse gas
regulations
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Rogers: Final Appropriations Package Will Move Forward
The conference report is expected to be filed in the House later this evening.
UPDATE: 4:12 pm
This bill is not final until the Senate agrees to it. The House is negotiating with the Senate to come to an agreement tonight so they can bring the bill to a vote tomorrow. Even though I don’t believe the wolf rider will be slipped back in, we cannot fully rest until the bill is agreed to by both houses of Congress and voted on. Stay tuned!!
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You can breath a sigh of relief, for now. The Lummis wolf delisting rider, which would have delisted wolves in Wyoming, The Great Lakes Region and 29 Eastern states has been removed from the Omnibus budget bill.
This is very good news a victory for wolves and wolf advocates but I’m still uneasy that someone might try to slip it in at the last-minute because they are still negotiating.
But for now we can savor this victory. We have not heard the last of wolf riders and wolf delistings but at least for today wolves in Wyoming, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan are safe.
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Kline and Cravaack angry over dropped wolf provision
Posted at 4:05 PM on December 15, 2011 by Brett Neely
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Read the bill
H.R. 3671
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012
http://www.rules.house.gov/Legislation/legislationDetails.aspx?NewsID=661
DIVISION E
DIVISION E-DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, ENVIRONMENT, AND RELATED
AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2012
TITLE I
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
http://rules.house.gov/Media/file/PDF_112_1/legislativetext/HR3671-IH-P5.pdf
Top Photo: Ann S., Lawyer Mohawk, Ambassador Wolf (Wolf People)
Bottom photo: Wikimedia Commons
Posted in: Wolf Wars
Tags: Cynthia Lummis wolf delisting rider, Omnibus budget bill, Wyoming wolves, Great Lakes Region wolves, rider stripped from House Bill
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YEAAHHHHHHH!
Hard at wolf work. No time to stop now.
But thankyou
The wolves thankyou
CMM
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Do we know who’s responsible for getting it out (to send thank yous), or was the negotiation all closed-door business?
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Still closed door captain sakonna. This past July there was an attempt to remove it.
“Lummis’ budget rider was unsuccessfully challenged by an amendment from U.S. Rep. Norman Dicks, D-Wash., as 24 Democrats joined 226 Republicans in voting to keep the language in the bill.
Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/article_14808ac3-c5bf-5eb4-88f0-9f610d4df409.html#ixzz1ggwX8fy9
We need to find out who those 26 Democrats were that helped the Republicans keep the Lummis rider in the budget bill.
I suspect the reason it was stripped out is because of the “no judicial review”. The Democrats were the ones who pushed the Northern Rockies rider through last Spring and they are taking major heat for it. The lawsuit is ongoing, the wolf hunts are becoming more brutal. I think they looked at 2012 and thought we better not go there again. It’s anyone’s guess at this point, I’m just glad it’s out but the USFWS is still pushing ahead to delist wolves in Wyoming and the Great Lakes by the beginning of the year…hence the comment period that ends on January 13, 2012.
For the wolves, For the wild ones,
Nabeki
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Oh, well I do know the answer to that. The roll call on the Dicks Amendment is on this page: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2011/roll659.xml
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I would be cautious until it is signed.I never truely trust anything or anyone that hides and deals behind the closed doors when it comes to our welfare and our wild wildlife .
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Though I’m so ready to be happy, I am, there’s truth in what you’re saying.
CMM
Let it be a win
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There’ always a caveat to everything it seems. The only time we were allowed to be truly happy since the wolf delisting nightmare began in 2009, is when Judge Molloy relisted wolves back in August of 2010. As I remember the wolf haters were crying and whining all the way through the Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring of 2010/2011 until they got their way and Congress delisted wolves. Shame on the Obama admin. Such a huge, huge disappointment. Yes we can has turned into more of the same.
For the wolves, For the wild ones,
Nabeki
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You’re very right Rita but once the language of the bill is published and agreed to by both houses, the only thing left is to vote on it. But with Congress you can never be sure of anything. I know one thing, someone has to put a stop to governing by rider.
For the wolves, For the wild ones,
Nabeki
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It’s like we have just experienced a true miracle. All we have to do is pray that they don’t slip it in at the very end. They are not to be trusted. If it goes forward without it attached anywhere in the bill, well, I don’t know what to say. Hard typing through tears and sobs. God bless all those for working so hard to save the grandfather of our family dogs. Thor answered.
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