The Disposal of Excess Federal Lands Act of 2013 (H.R. 2657) from Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) would mandate that public lands Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming to be sold off to the highest bidder as a way of reducing the deficit. [...] However, evidence shows not only that voters oppose selling off public lands, but that they are incredibly important economically. This is especially true for the state of Utah, which is losing $4.4 million every day because its five national parks are shutdown.
However, evidence shows not only that voters oppose selling off public lands, but that they are incredibly important economically. This is especially true for the state of Utah, which is losing $4.4 million every day because its five national parks are shutdown.
For the 13,000 members of southeast Montana’s Crow Tribe, the budget impasse had immediate and far-reaching effects: Tribal leaders furloughed more than 300 workers Wednesday, citing the shutdown and earlier federal budget cuts. As a result, tribal programs including home health care for the elderly and disabled, bus service for rural areas, and a major irrigation project were suspended indefinitely.
As a result, tribal programs including home health care for the elderly and disabled, bus service for rural areas, and a major irrigation project were suspended indefinitely.
Even before the income tax was enacted, the issue of loopholes came up. An [article discussing them appeared in The New York Times as early as April 13, 1913. By 1915, one congressman complained: “I write a law. You drill a hole in it. I plug the hole. You drill a hole in my plug.”
A Spanish defense company, Expal, is manufacturing drones camouflaged to look like large birds. “Nobody can tell it's a spy because it's designed to the exact body shape and feather pattern of [an] eagle,” Sofía Alfaro Marco, branding manager of Expal, told the Guardian. “We can design it to look like any large bird, depending on the location of the client.”
“Nobody can tell it's a spy because it's designed to the exact body shape and feather pattern of [an] eagle,” Sofía Alfaro Marco, branding manager of Expal, told the Guardian. “We can design it to look like any large bird, depending on the location of the client.”
Forty million dollars an hour. A third of a billion every day. $1.6 billion every week. That's a conservative estimate of the money Republicans are wasting by keeping the federal government closed down. And if pundits like Sean Hannity have their way, they'll run up a much larger tab before this is all over.