Subject: Fwd: Stop The Omnibus Federal Lands Bill Call
Your Senator Now
Our lame duck congress thinks we are asleep. Let's show those
sneaky bums we are not.
This last summer a number of groups across the
State including Olympia Tea Party joined forces to stop the Department of
Ecology's big water rights grab - and we did it. Now we have a battle
at the Federal level.
The email that I am forwarding to you is worth
responding to.
The information below is a bit long so I've
highlighted the essentials. But the text gives some strategy
suggestions.
Call your Senators, and your Representative and
tell them you oppose:
The Omnibus Federal Lands Bill
Any LWCF Trust Fund
The Corps of Engineers & the EPA's Wetlands
Clean Water Act Jurisdiction Bill
These will probably all be rolled into the
Omnibus Federal Lands Bill (so call opposing that if you
like)
Give 'em hell. (well...
phone calls, emails and faxes... you know)
Ken
---------- Forwarded message
---------- From: American Landrights<noreply@maillist.landrights.org> Date:
Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 4:18 PM Subject: Stop The Omnibus Federal Lands Bill
Call Your Senator Now To: olympiateaparty@gmail.com
Land Rights Network American Land Rights Association
(ALRA) Keep Private Land In Private Hands Coalition PO Box 400 - Battle
Ground, WA 98604 Phone: 360-687-3087 - Fax: 360-687-2973 E-mail: alra@pacifier.com Web Address:
https://www.landrights.org Legislative Office: 507 Seward Square SE - Washington, DC
20003
Stop The Omnibus Federal Lands Bill Call Your Senator
Now.
Deluge Your Senators With Calls Opposing Omnibus Lands Bill
Now
The 2010 Omnibus
Federal Lands Bill will include dozens of bills that threaten you.
The worst are the LWCF Billion
Dollar Trust Fund and the Corps and EPA Wetlands Jurisdiction
Land Grab.
At the bottom of this e-mail is a copy of the story in
Energy and Environment Newsletter about the Omnibus Federal Lands Bill and
the Lame Duck Session.
The Lame Duck second session of
Congress runs from November 29th well into December. Don’t let your
Senators get away with a dark of night backroom vote where they are no longer
responsible to the voters. You must stop your Senators from voting for the
Omnibus Federal Lands Bill.
Remember in a Lame Duck Session you have
all the defeated and retired Members of the House and Senate voting. The new
Congress does not get to vote until after January 1st.
Don’t take any
Senator for granted. A number of your friends in Congress voted for the 2009
Omnibus Federal Lands Bill that included many bills that hurt you rolled into
one. That must not be allowed to happen again.
A list of the Senators
who voted for the 2009 Omnibus Bill is at the bottom of this
e-mail.
You can help
by:
-----1. Forwarding this message to everyone on
your e-mail list. Before you do anything else after reading this
message, forward it on to as much of your e-mail list as you can.
By
forwarding this message you can help create an uprising against the Omnibus
Federal Lands bill that is being put together in the Lame Duck Session of
Congress by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi.
-----2. Call both
your Senators at least once a day for the next two weeks tell them you oppose the Omnibus
Federal Lands Bill with the LWCF Trust Fund (S 3663) and the Corps
and EPA Wetlands Land Grab (HR 5088 and S 787). Be aware they
may try to trick you by playing a shell game with the bill
numbers.
When you call, fax or e-mail make sure you mention that you
oppose the Omnibus Federal Lands Billand any LWCF Trust Fund
and Corps of Engineers EPA Wetlands Clean Water
Act Jurisdiction Bill that will likely be included. You must pin them
down and make them responsible for their vote.
Any Senator may be
called at (202) 224-3121. Their phones, faxes and e-mail machines must not
stop ringing. Any Congressman may be call ed (202)
225-3121.
-----3. Your
Senators must be deluged with calls, faxes and e-mails opposing any
Omnibus Federal Lands Bill. That’s because it will include the Billion Dollar
LWCF Trust Fund (S 3663) and the Corps EPA Wetlands Water and Land Grab Bill
(HR 5088 and S 787).
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is adding all
kinds of bills sponsored by your friends in the Senate to buy their vote. He
tried to stick a bill in for each Republican that may oppose him.
You
need to make sure you tell your Senator that you will be watching the vote
and that any vote for Any Omnibus Federal Lands Bill will be held against
him. American Land Rights will send you a vote summary so you will know how
your Senator voted
You can look below to see if your Senator voted for
the Omnibus Federal Lands Bill in 2009.
Your Senators and Congressman
will vote for this bill when they ordinarily might oppose it because most of
them have something in the package they want. Senator Reid does this on
purpose. He puts a bill in that each Republican wants in order to buy their
vote. It is the total package kills you.
You can call any Senator at (202)
224-3121.Call any
Congressman at (202) 225-3121.
-----4.
Call your Senator to ask for a commitment to vote no on any Omnibus Federal
Lands Bill. No bill number was available at press time. But any staff person
will understand when you call
opposing any Omnibus Federal Lands Bill. Ask
for the staff person who handles Federal land issues for your Senator and
Congressman.
-----5. Hand out copies of this e-mail to your friends and
business associates. Carry copies in your truck or car.
-----6. Call
your friends and neighbors to get them to call both your Senators at (202)
224-3121. Have them call your Congressman also at (202)
225-3121.
-----Omnibus Lands Bill Sneak Attack In Lame Duck, You’ll
Lose!
The Omnibus Federal Lands bill as well as the LWCF Billion
Dollar Trust Fund and the Corps and EPA Wetlands Land and Water Grab
bill can be stopped but you and ALRA as well as many other groups
as possible must participate.
You must let any Congressman or Senator
who votes for the Omnibus Federal Lands Bill know now, before the vote, that
you will remember and he or she will be held accountable.
-----The
Election is over and a whole lot of defeated Congressmen and Senators no
longer need to pay attention to the voters in the second Lame Duck Session of
Congress that runs from November 29th well into December. They still get to
vote even though they were defeated or retired.
The Lame Duck Session
of Congress is incredibly dangerous to you.
There must be an uprising of
opposition to Congress passing any Omnibus Federal Lands Bill, Billion Dollar
LWCF Land Acquisition Trust Fund and Corps and EPA Wetlands Water and Land
Grab. They will likely be rolled into one package. It will be called The
Omnibus Federal Lands Bill.
No bill number yet. But rural America and
your future are on the line.
This must be an uprising of opposition.
Because these are Democrat bills, you must make it clear that if these bills
pass, the Democrats will suffer even more in 2012. Because they are Democrat
bills, it is more likely that their outgoing sponsors will seek to shove
them through the Lame Duck Session of Congress.
This is the most
dangerous time for you. Any Congressman or Senator who is defeated for
election or is retiring will no longer be accountable to the voters. Yet they
still get to vote on your future in the Lame Duck session of
Congress.
The likelihood of the Omnibus Federal Lands Bill passing in the
Lame Duck is great. That bill is likely to include the Billion Dollar
LWCF (S 3663) and the Corps EPA Wetlands Land and Water Grab Bill (HR
5088 and S 787).
Ask your Senator to filibuster the Omnibus Federal
Lands Bill and the LWCF Trust Fund as well and Corps EPA Wetlands Land and
Water Grab. He or she can also put a hold on it that will slow it down or
stop it.
Even when Congress is out, their offices are open and they have
staff there so keep your calls flooding their phones.
Nothing is more
dangerous to you than a Lame Duck session. That is because many Congressmen
and Senators have either lost their elections or have retired but still come
back and vote.
They are no longer responsible to you.
-----Below
is the list of Senators who voted for the very bad Omnibus Federal Lands Bill
in 2009. Some are your friends. You’ll be surprised. They had no business
voting for the Omnibus Bill in 2009 but did and it hurt their constituents
and their states.
-----Go down the list to see if your Senators are
there. Even if they are not listed, do not take them for granted this time
around. Get a commitment from both your Senators that they will oppose and
vote no on any Omnibus Federal Lands Bill.
If they are listed, remind
them of that when you call. Tell them you will not forget if they vote for
the Omnibus Federal Lands Bill in 2010. It is far worse than even the 2009
version.
Here are the
Senators who voted for the 2009 Omnibus Federal Lands Bill that hurt you so much. You
need to keep them from voting for any 2010 Omnibus Federal Lands Bill. When
you talk to their staff, make sure they know you know they voted for the 2009
version.
P.S. You must deluge your Senators and Congressman with
calls, faxes and e-mails opposing the Omnibus Federal Lands Bill. You must
also mention the LWCF Billion Dollar Trust fund and the Corps and
EPA Wetlands Land Grab.
They will likely be inserted into the Omnibus
Federal Lands Bill. Your Senators and Congressman must understand they will
be held accountable for any vote for these bills.
If these bills pass, you’ll get tied
up in a nightmare of red tape, bureaucracy and land acquisition.
Eminent domain and condemnation will be hanging over your head
forever
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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Here is the Energy and
Environment Newsletter Story about the Omnibus Federal Lands Bill and the
Lame Duck Session.
Subject: EPW/Commerce massive water, lands, wildlife
bill brewing.
NATURAL RESOURCES: Lawmakers ponder massive water, lands
and wildlife bill before end of year (11/19/2010)
Paul Quinlan,
E&E reporter
Lawmakers are working to bundle a slew of waterways,
public lands and wildlife bills into a monumental natural resources package
that could attract enough bipartisan support to pass before Congress ends
next month.
Success is far from assured, aides say, given the
lame-duck session's already-crowded agenda. Staffers and environmental
lobbyists are working down a list of possible measures, reaching out to
Senate offices and counting votes to determine which individual bills
could attract the support needed to pass the potentially landmark
package.
"We'd love to try to do it," said Sen Barbara Boxer, the
California Democrat who leads the Senate Environment and Public Works
Committee, regarding the water, lands and wildlife package in the works.
Boxer declined to speculate on the chances of such a bill passing
both chambers before the clock runs out in December, warning that
"one person can hold it up."
Bills under consideration for the
end-of-year buzzer shot include water and wildlife measures out of Boxer's
committee that would protect the Great Lakes, Chesapeake Bay, Puget Sound,
Long Island Sound, Gulf of Mexico and San Francisco Bay. Aides are trying
to combine those bills with others out of the Senate Energy and
Natural Resources Committee that would protect more than 2 million acres
and create new national parks, monuments, wilderness areas and
wildlife sanctuaries.
Other potential add-ons originate in the Senate
Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation and would protect oceans
and estuarine resources like coral reefs and species such as
sharks, Pacific salmon and the southern sea otter, improve
fisheries management, combat algae blooms and promote oceanic
research.
Two big hurdles remain. One is whether House leadership can
be brought on board, since many of the bills under consideration have yet
to win even committee approval on the House side. Rep. Doc Hastings
(R-Wash.), for example, the likely chairman of the House Natural Resources
Committee in the next Congress, has said he dislikes "omnibus" measures,
preferring instead to consider bills individually on their own
merits.
The other question is whether leadership will make time for such
a package to receive consideration on the floor in the final weeks of this
Congress.
"It is on a list of items that are possible for consideration
during the lame duck," Regan Lachapelle, a spokeswoman for Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), said in a statement yesterday. "We have
a long list of items that are possible and not much time to do so. Senator
Reid is speaking with the caucus, the Republicans, the House and the White
House to decide what is possible."
Environmental groups are framing the
issue in economic terms they hope will resonate on Capitol Hill. At stake,
according to a fact sheet, is the $730 billion annually that outdoor
recreation contributes to the American economy, while supporting 6.5
million jobs. It also notes the multiplier effect of dollars invested
in environmental restoration and the boost to surrounding property values
that comes with preserving land.
Most of the waterways bills would boost
U.S. EPA's role in their protection, authorizing money for the agency to
setup new program offices, award grants and increase
accountability.
"From Puget Sound to the Gulf of Mexico to the Chesapeake
Bay, Congress has never had an opportunity to restore so many of
our waters in one vote since passing the Clean Water Act in 1972,"
said Piper Crowell, clean water advocate for Environment America. "We
only see this kind of opportunity once in a decade."
Call your Senators at
(202) 224-3121. Call your Congressman at (202) 225-3121. The Omnibus Federal
Lands Bill which includes the LWCF Billion Dollar Trust Fund and the Corps
EPA Jurisdiction Land and Water Grab must be stopped. Please do not fail to
do your part.
If you know of others who would like to receive these
alerts, reply with their e-mail addresses.
Please forward this message
as widely as possible. This is a historic issue.
It is incredibly
important for you to forward this message. By forwarding the message, you can
help get millions of copies of this critically important e-mail distributed.
Thank you in advance for your help.