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House Passes Gosar Amendment Blocking Harmful Sonoran Desert Tortoise Listing

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04) released the following statement after the Congressman’s amendment to block the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (the Service) from listing Sonoran Desert Tortoise (SDT) as an endangered or threatened species passed the House of Representatives and was successfully attached to the Interior, Environment and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2016:

Rep. Gosar Blocks Amendment that Would Have Allowed EPA Water Grab to Move Forward

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04) released the following statement after blocking an amendment introduced by Brenda Lawrence (D-MI) to the House Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2016, that sought to strip the Gosar requested rider included in the base bill which prohibits the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) from using any appropriated funds to carry out the new “Waters of the United States (WOTUS)” regulation:

House Passes Gosar Amendment Blocking Tax Dollars for Wasteful UN Environmental Initiatives

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04) released the following statement after the Congressman’s amendment to prohibit the EPA from providing funds to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) passed the House of Representatives and was successfully attached to the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2016:

What if there were no Mexican gray wolves in Arizona?

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Paul Gosar, Defenders of Wildlife debate the impact of the Mexican gray wolf in Arizona July 4, 2015 Published in the Arizona Republic What would happen if there were no Mexican grey wolves in Arizona? The Arizona Republic asked Representative Paul Gosar, who has introduced a bill to strip Mexican gray wolves of their Endangered Species Act protections, and Eva Sargent, Defenders of…

Official: Aging water facilities need major repair

| Posted in In the News

The bill would “put a long list of all the projects of the Bureau of Reclamation’s inventory so we know what they look like, what they expect, time tables in which they need to be repaired,” said Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Prescott, and the lead sponsor of the measure.Click here to read

House Passes Bipartisan Gosar Amendment Cutting $61 Million from EPA Budget

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04) released the following statement after his amendment cutting funds from the EPA’s Program and Management account and redirecting a portion of those revenues to the Bureau of Indian Education System Operations and Maintenance account passed the House of Representatives and was successfully attached to the Department of Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2016:

Reps. Gosar, Pearce Introduce Bipartisan Mexican Wolf Transparency & Accountability Act

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04) released the following statement after introducing H.R. 2910, the Mexican Wolf Transparency and Accountability Act, which would require the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to comply with federal law and terminate the new overreaching regulations that established the dangerous “Nonessential Experimental Population” program for the Mexican wolf: