Bill Threatens

• Gop Spending Bill Threatens to Gut U.S. Protections

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service no longer would have funding to protect new species as threatened or endangered under a Republican spending bill being debated on the House floor this week. The agency, however, would retain funding to remove species from the list and to reduce their level of protection. The bill, House Resolution 2584, funds U.S. Interior Department agencies and the Environmental Protection Agency in the budget year that begins Oct. 1. U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Wash., plans to introduce an amendment that would restore funding enabling the Fish and Wildlife Service to study species proposed for listing.

• The Columbian
• July 29, 2011

• Bill Threatens Treatment of Predators, Critics Say

By Dena Potter The Associated Press

• The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA
• February 15, 2011

• Partisan Wrangling Threatens Wilderness Bill

WASHINGTON - In an early showdown for the new Congress, senators are considering setting aside more than 2 million acres in nine states as wilderness, including 37,000 acres in the Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia. The bill, a holdover from last year, has bipartisan support. Yet it is causing friction that threatens to spoil pledges by Senate leaders to work cooperatively as a new administration takes office.

• Sunday Gazette-Mail
• January 12, 2009

• Reid's Lame-Duck Lands Bill Threatens Border Security

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is fast-tracking over 100 federal land-acquisition bills for action during the lame-duck session, despite warnings from Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers that Reid's effort, if successful, would harm U.S. efforts to block illegal entry and drug smuggling in border areas. The omnibus bill includes over 100 federal land-acquisition bills and is expected to come up for a vote this week.

• U.S. Newswire
• December 13, 2010

• Proposed tax bill signals rate increases, threatens recovery.

A bill is moving through the state legislature that would have a tremendous impact on local jurisdictions, businesses and residents. Senate Bill 653 (...

• San Fernando Valley Business Journal
• June 20, 2011

• Bill Threatens Advances in Medical Technology

As a former police officer, I've experienced my share of challenges. But nothing compares to the trials I've endured in recent years battling life-threatening illnesses, including cancer and diabetes. As a result, I have come to appreciate, in a very personal way, how precious good health is, and how important good health care and modern medical advances are to saving lives and helping ensure a good quality of life for people like myself who face serious health issues. Thankfully, for me and countless others, the United States has led the world in innovation and progress in science and medicine, driving many advances that have developed into life-saving medical devices.

• Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
• June 04, 2010

• County Ponders $30,000 Peia Bill: ; Agency Threatens Collection After Retiree Allowed to Use Sick Leave

The Kanawha County Commission could be turned over to a collection agency for a more-than $30,000 bill from the Public Employee Insurance Agency, but the county is turning to an outside attorney to see if the invoice must be paid. Commissioners received a letter from the state PEIA claiming that the county owes $30,334 for health care costs incurred by a former county employee that retired in 2009.

• Charleston Daily Mail
• June 01, 2011

• Ida 'Reform' Bill Threatens New York's Future

New York State is sometimes accused of having a tendency to shoot itself in the foot when it comes to economic development. One look at the current "hostage situation" involving IDA financing for not- for-profits, and it is easy to see why. The "civic facilities" law that had, since 1986, authorized industrial development agencies to finance projects undertaken by colleges, hospitals and other not-for-profit entities was allowed to sunset on Jan. 31, 2008. Renewal of this important economic development tool was then, and continues to be, blocked by so- called reformers who are holding it hostage to their demands for wholesale overall changes in the IDA program in an incomprehensible display of a self-defeating agenda.

• Buffalo News
• June 14, 2010

• Cost of Health Care Bill Threatens Economy

Barack Obama hopes his famous health care victory will mark him as a transformative president. History, however, may judge it to have been his missed opportunity to be one. Health care will not be seriously revisited for at least a generation, so the system's costliest defect -- untaxed employer- provided insurance, which entangles a high-inflation commodity, health care, with the wage system -- remains. Obama could not challenge this without adopting measures -- e.g., tax credits for individuals, enabling them to shop for their own insurance -- that empower individuals and therefore conflict with his party's agenda of spreading dependency.

• The Topeka Capital-Journal
• April 13, 2010

• Democrats' Splintering Threatens Health Reform Bill

The escalating battle among Democrats over abortion has grabbed headlines, but a few other intraparty disputes are endangering President Obama's proposed health care overhaul. From stemming rising health care costs and addressing regional disparities on Medicare rates to a general skepticism of the Senate, rank-and-file House Democrats are struggling to support Mr. Obama's plan as they close in on midterm elections. Voters have become increasingly hostile to the effort.

• The Washington Times
• March 08, 2010