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