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House keeps two monument resolutions on fast track after heated rules debate
Summary
The House rejected a substitute to refer HCR 11 and HCR 12 to Natural Resources and adopted a rules committee report lifting both concurrent resolutions (urging presidential action on Bears Ears and Grand Staircase) to the top of the third-reading calendar after extended floor debate about whether the Rules Committee properly acted as a standing committee.
The House debated whether two concurrent resolutions on federal national monuments should be routed to the Natural Resources Committee or moved immediately toward floor consideration.
Michael Noel, Rules Committee chair, presented the committee report to lift HCR 11 (urging the president to rescind the Bears Ears National Monument designation) and HCR 12 (urging federal action to reduce or modify Grama Staircase–Escalante National Monument) to the top of the third-reading calendar. Representative Briscoe offered a substitute motion to refer both…
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