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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (495536)	11/19/2003 2:52:36 PM
From: Red Heeler	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Agreed. Bush's unspoken environmental policy: "We'd better rape her now while we've got her, boys. If we don't use her up somebody else will."

To: American Spirit who wrote (495536)	11/19/2003 3:23:30 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Don't you ever get tired of playing buffoon....??? You're like a broken record.....only dumber.....

To: American Spirit who wrote (495536)	11/22/2003 1:39:19 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Respond to of 769667

2-1 passage margin. Maybe some Dems live near forests. Saturday, November 22, 2003 Congress OKs bill to thin overgrown forests Threat of wildfires would be reduced, sponsors say, but some Democrats worry about opening remote lands to logging. By MATTHEW DALY The Associated Press WASHINGTON – Congress approved legislation Friday that lawmakers said would reduce the risk of wildfires in national forests by speeding removal of overgrown brush and diseased trees, especially near homes and towns. The Senate passed the bill by a voice vote less than an hour after the House approved it 286-140. The rapid-fire votes came after a three-year impasse on wildfire legislation. The bill, which goes to President George W. Bush for his signature, resembles the president's "Healthy Forests Initiative," which would streamline approval of projects to thin overgrown forests. The measure would limit appeals and environmental reviews so that forest-thinning can be completed within months rather than years. The combination of dry underbrush and legal opposition had turned some Western forests into tinderboxes, supporters of the bill said. Wildfires in California burned nearly 750,000 acres this fall, causing 22 deaths and destroying more than 3,600 homes. They also softened opposition to the bill, and some Democrats accused Bush and other Republicans of using the wildfires as an excuse to open up remote forests to logging. The measure would authorize $760 million a year for thinning projects on 20 million acres of federal land - a $340 million increase. At least half of all money spent on those projects must be near homes and communities. The bill also creates a major change in the way that federal courts consider legal challenges of tree-cutting projects. Judges would have to weigh the environmental consequences of inaction and the risk of fire in cases involving thinning projects. Any court order blocking such projects would have to be reconsidered every 60 days.