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Hoyer updates House plans, sets vote on lands package
The House has set a date for consideration of the "Great American Outdoors Act," along with spending and defense legislation.
Emma Dumain covers Congress for E&E News. A Capitol Hill reporter since 2010, she was most recently a congressional correspondent for McClatchy and, before that, she covered South Carolina politics and the state's congressional delegation for The (Columbia) State newspaper and the Charleston Post and Courier. Emma got her start in journalism at Roll Call and Congressional Quarterly and is a graduate of Oberlin College.
The House has set a date for consideration of the "Great American Outdoors Act," along with spending and defense legislation.
House Democrats amended their fiscal 2021 spending bill funding EPA this morning to prohibit the agency from moving forward on its controversial new science rule.
Mandating a plan for Interior Department police to use body cameras. Commissioning a study on a monument to a 1908 race riot. Encouraging broader dialogue on a former president's record on racial issues as federal institutions continue to bear his name.
Opposition to offshore drilling is one of the main reasons freshman Rep. Joe Cunningham (D) flipped South Carolina's 1st District from red to blue in 2018.
The three Democrats in Nevada's four-member House delegation are pleading with committee chairs to reverse a controversial amendment they say would threaten 840,000 acres of federally protected land in their state.