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Apr 10
The @USDA is in full damage control over our @forestservice reporting. @RapidResponse47 called it "lies." @DepSecVaden fired off seven tweets. They rewrote the USFS website. And after all of that, the best they could muster was three "myths" — every one contradicted by their own scientists' union the same week. morethanjustparks.com/usfs-d…
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Mike Lee had the House, the Senate, the chairmanship, and the whole Utah delegation. He still couldn't bring his attack on Grand Staircase to a vote in either chamber. The clock killed it. 1.87 million acres still standing. You did this.
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Republicans run the House. They run the Senate. Mike Lee chairs the committee with jurisdiction over public lands. The Utah delegation backed the resolution to a member. In more than three months, they couldn't bring it to a vote in either chamber.
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Now watch the spin. Lee and Maloy called it a procedural outcome, not a reflection of support for the policy. Read that again. They want you to believe the senator who chairs the committee accidentally ran out the clock on his own signature fight.
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Second time in twelve months this exact delegation got beaten back by public pressure. Paperwork doesn't beat a determined majority. People do.
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Jun 14
Republicans run the House. They run the Senate. Mike Lee chairs the committee with jurisdiction over public lands. The Utah delegation backed the resolution to a member. In more than three months, they couldn't bring it to a vote in either chamber.
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Jun 14
Now watch the spin. Lee and Maloy called it a procedural outcome, not a reflection of support for the policy. Read that again. They want you to believe the senator who chairs the committee accidentally ran out the clock on his own signature fight.
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Jun 14
Second time in twelve months this exact delegation got beaten back by public pressure. Paperwork doesn't beat a determined majority. People do.
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Jun 14
Republicans run the House. They run the Senate. Mike Lee chairs the committee with jurisdiction over public lands. The Utah delegation backed the resolution to a member. In more than three months, they couldn't bring it to a vote in either chamber.
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Jun 14
Now watch the spin. Lee and Maloy called it a procedural outcome, not a reflection of support for the policy. Read that again. They want you to believe the senator who chairs the committee accidentally ran out the clock on his own signature fight.
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Jun 14
Second time in twelve months this exact delegation got beaten back by public pressure. Paperwork doesn't beat a determined majority. People do.
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Jun 14
Now watch the spin. Lee and Maloy called it a procedural outcome, not a reflection of support for the policy. Read that again. They want you to believe the senator who chairs the committee accidentally ran out the clock on his own signature fight.
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Jun 14
Second time in twelve months this exact delegation got beaten back by public pressure. Paperwork doesn't beat a determined majority. People do.
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Jun 14
The weapon Lee aimed at Grand Staircase-Escalante was a Congressional Review Act resolution to erase the plan governing 1.87 million acres of southern Utah. It had a hard deadline. The window closed Thursday, June 11, without a vote. Day 60. It's dead. For now.
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Jun 14
A majority doesn't let a fight like this die on a deadline when it has the votes to win. Forcing members to go on record gutting a beloved monument in an election year was a vote nobody wanted to cast. 150 scientists, 125 organizations, six tribal nations said no.
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Jun 14
Republicans run the House. They run the Senate. Mike Lee chairs the committee with jurisdiction over public lands. The Utah delegation backed the resolution to a member. In more than three months, they couldn't bring it to a vote in either chamber.
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