GOPpers Voting For National Parks Funding Can't Brag If They Support Shitstain's Awful BLM Nominee
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Members of the House Rules Committee will assemble today to tee up floor consideration of the Great American Outdoors Act, H.R. 1957 (116), next week. The legislation, which already passed the Senate, would permanently fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund at $900 million annually and would provide billions to address maintenance backlogs across U.S. public lands.
President Donald Trump has signaled he will support the measure. In fact, Trump called the bill "historic" in a tweet, while also elevating the efforts of Sens. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) and Steve Daines (R-Mont.) on the measure. But, as Pro's Anthony Adragna and your host report this morning, the likely passage of the measure next week could be overshadowed for the pair of lawmakers facing tough re-election bids if they decide to back Trump's pick to lead the Bureau of Land Management, William Perry Pendley.
By nominating Pendley to be director of the agency, Trump is forcing Daines, Gardner and Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) — who all sit on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee — to either defy the White House and oppose Pendley, or support him and risk undermining their credibility as conservationists after passing the Great American Outdoors Act by installing someone to oversee the nation's public lands who has previously advocated selling them off.
Recent polls have shown Gardner trailing former Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, and McSally lagging behind her Democratic opponent, Mark Kelly, a former astronaut. The contest between Daines and Montana's Democratic governor, Steve Bullock, appears neck-and-neck, with recent polls finding the race within a couple of percentage points.
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