The Endangered Species Management Self-Determination
Act, currently in committee in the Senate, seeks to leave protection of
endangered species up to the Governors of each state and automatically
remove protections for animals after five years. The bill, sponsored by Kentucky Republican Rand
Paul, would require the federal government to gain the approval from
state governments before enacting the protections spelled out in the
original Endangered Species Act of 1973. Paul believes the bill would expedite job creation and infrastructure projects. The Senate bill is known as S. 1731.
In addition to the requirement that species be removed from the list of
protected animals after five years unless congress enacts a joint
resolution, there is also a clause granting governors immunity from
judicial review of their actions...more
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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