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01-18-2004, 10:51 AM
The powerful Chair of the House Resources Committee has targeted the Endangered Species Act for a series of modifications on a piece-by-piece basis.
"It's the death-of-a-thousand-cuts approach," said Bart Semcer, a fish and wildlife policy specialist for the Sierra Club. "They know that they can't win by adopting a wholesale approach to attacking the Endangered Species Act, so they're launching sneak attacks, small pieces of legislation that they're hoping the public won't notice in order to undermine the law."
Read article http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11279-2004Jan12.html
"It's the death-of-a-thousand-cuts approach," said Bart Semcer, a fish and wildlife policy specialist for the Sierra Club. "They know that they can't win by adopting a wholesale approach to attacking the Endangered Species Act, so they're launching sneak attacks, small pieces of legislation that they're hoping the public won't notice in order to undermine the law."
Read article http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11279-2004Jan12.html