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Helen Chenoweth-Hage: “I thank the House for allowing this amendment to come up. It is a very, very important amendment, because even as I…”

On the recordMay 10, 2000
I thank the House for allowing this amendment to come up. It is a very, very important amendment, because even as I speak, Secretary Babbitt is in my State, looking at setting aside three different sites as a national monument under the 1906 Antiquities Act. This is a clear distortion of the Antiquities Act. The Antiquities Act very clearly says that the area immediately around the antiquity shall be protected, not one 1.8 million acres like was set aside in Utah and the hundreds of thousands that we expect in Idaho and various other States. I think this is an amendment that will rein in the kind of ambition that we have seen in this administration. I urge its support.
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Addressing concerns about the use of the Antiquities Act during a House debate.

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