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As Republicans end remote testimony, Democrats worry about diversity

WASHINGTON — Remote testimony saved Guam officials about 48 hours and nearly $2,000 in round-trip airfare for a one-hour hearing of the House Natural Resources Committee last year. It allowed a doctor to testify about female veterans’ access to medical care before the Veterans’ Affairs Committee, and then perform surgery…

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As Republicans end remote testimony, Democrats worry about diversity - Roll Call

More than half of all witnesses last Congress appeared remotely, which may have boosted diversity. Now the House GOP is rolling that back.

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Democrats say Republicans - including George Santos - wearing assault weapon pins ‘isn’t the flex you think it is’

AOC also had a confrontation with the chairman of the Natural Resources Committee about bringing firearms to the committee

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A ‘most partisan’ committee drops its gun ban

Some members of the House Natural Resources Committee could be packing heat when they gather in the new session of Congress.

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A ‘most partisan’ committee drops its gun ban - Roll Call

Some members of the House Natural Resources Committee could be packing heat when they gather in the new session of Congress.

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Agency delays protections for imperiled bat, prairie chicken

The Biden administration is temporarily delaying legal protections for two imperiled species after getting pushback from congressional Republicans

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Exclusive: Behind Biden's overseas mining funding

EVs need lots of minerals. Biden is trying to deal with that.

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Rep. Westerman of Arkansas won’t be ‘boxed in’ by climate at Natural Resources

Rep. Bruce Westerman, R-Ark., said he hopes to combat a “not in my backyard” mentality to support increased energy production and mining on federal lands after he takes the expected gavel of the House Natural Resources Committee in the new year.

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Westerman won't be 'boxed in' by climate at Natural Resources - Roll Call

Top Republican on the panel says he'll focus on 'good stewardship,' but proposals have drawn skepticism from environmental groups

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House approves bill to help West fight wildfires, drought

The House has approved wide-ranging legislation aimed at helping communities in the West cope with increasingly severe wildfires and drought — fueled by climate change — that have caused billions of dollars of damage to homes and businesses in recent years

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Sequoias safe for now, as lawmakers debate forest policies

Giant sequoias — thousand-year-old trees as large as 275 feet tall — came under threat this month from wildfires raging in central California’s Yosemite National Park, though firefighters have reported the blaze was contained before it encroached on trees in the park’s famous Mariposa Grove.

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Sequoias safe for now, as lawmakers debate forest policies - Roll Call

A narrow escape for a national treasure fuels debate in Congress about how to reduce wildfires in Yosemite and other federal lands.

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Bipartisan bill would rescue giant sequoias from wildfire

Confronting an existential threat to the world’s largest trees, U.S. Rep. Scott Peters joined House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on a rescue plan for California’s giant sequoia groves.

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Biden forest plan stirs dispute over what counts as "old"

President Joe Biden’s order to protect the nation’s oldest woodlands is raising a simple but vexing question: When does a forest grow old

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