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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSoon you will again be able to hunt bears from helicopters. FREEDOM!!
on the FREEDOM thingCongress Rolls Back Obama-Era Rule On Hunting Bears And Wolves In Alaska
By a largely party-line vote Tuesday, the Senate approved a bill that repeals Obama-era hunting restrictions on national wildlife refuges in Alaska. The House already voted last month to abolish those restrictions which were instituted by the Fish and Wildlife Service in 2016 to protect predator species from hunters and so the bill now heads to the desk of President Trump, who is widely expected to sign it.
The FWS rule facing repeal explicitly prohibited many kinds of "predator control" on the 16 federally owned refuges in Alaska. That prohibition included a ban on the aerial hunting, live trapping or baiting of predators such as bears and wolves as well as on killing those predators while near their dens or their cubs.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/22/521089304/congress-rolls-back-obama-era-rule-on-hunting-bears-and-wolves-in-alaska
In working to repeal the FWS rule, Republican lawmakers turned again to the Congressional Review Act, a measure they also used to great effect last month in rolling back another Obama-era regulation.
As we explained then, the CRA is a means to review and cancel regulations issued in the final days of an outgoing administration: "The move allows the Senate to proceed with a simple majority, thus enabling GOP senators to avoid a filibuster by Democrats."
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Soon you will again be able to hunt bears from helicopters. FREEDOM!! (Original Post)
underpants
Mar 2017
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Skittles
(153,193 posts)1. gun humping cowards will LOVE this
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)2. That's really brave of anyone that hints that way. Cowards.
Dem2
(8,168 posts)3. FREEDUMB!!
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)4. Typical drumpf behavior. Gaming the situation to take unfair advantage
of innocent animals resulting in their demise. Sound familiar?
Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)5. People fall out of helicopters. Sad.