Demos Quash Bishop's Public Lands Protest
Deseret News (Salt Lake City) › January 28, 2010
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WASHINGTON -- The revolt was fun while it lasted. But Democrats finally quashed Wednesday what had been a temporarily successful GOP rebellion led largely by Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, to protest the Obama administration's handling of public lands.
Bishop had held up for a week the House approval of a Democratic proposal to buy beach-front property in the Virgin Islands for a proposed national historical site -- but do that before the National Park Service finishes a study on whether a park unit there is wise and how big it should be.See the full content of this document
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Demos Quash Bishop's Public Lands Protest
Bishop -- chairman of the Congressional Western Caucus -- cried foul about buying land before the study is completed.
As he told ...See the full content of this document
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