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Issues
The House considered Senator Markwayne Mullin’s (R-OK) S.J. Res. 24, a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution of disapproval, which would repeal the Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) rule protecting the northern long-eared bat under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The CRA is an extreme and blunt tool that is being used by anti-environmental members of Congress who want to permanently strip away protections for our environment, communities, wildlife, and natural heritage. This resolution could prevent any future protection of the northern long-eared bat, even if the population collapsed or just a handful of individual bats remained and, simply put, could be a vote to condemn that species to extinction. Coming just months after the Senate’s similarly precedent-breaking votes on S.J. Res. 9 and 24, this would be only the second time in the CRA’s 30-year history that the House attempted to use the law to rescind ESA protections for an individual species. On July 27, the House approved S.J. Res. 24 by a vote of 220-209 (House roll call vote 382). On May 11, the Senate approved S.J. Res. 24; however, the president vetoed it on September 26, and on September 28, the Senate failed to override the president’s veto.
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