The House Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday voted 24-17 to formally rename the Gulf of Mexico as Democrats launched a tsunami of lampooning amendments, including one to rename Earth “Planet Trump.”
The committee also voted 24-17 to approve a bill to delist the gray wolf under the Endangered Species Act and adopted by unanimous consent more than a half-dozen other bipartisan bills.
Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s proposal, H.R. 276, to codify the Gulf of America name in statute took center stage at the full committee markup.
Democrats sought to zing Republicans for taking up the bill in the first place. On his first day in office, President Donald Trump issued an executive order renaming the Gulf, but Congress has yet to officially codify it.
