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Risch holds up spending bill, angry over naming of wilderness after former rival Andrus
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Mar 23, 2018 08:54am |
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| Author | Cynthia Sewell and Rocky Barker |
| News Date | Friday, March 23, 2018 05:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A lot of things can go haywire when Congress tries to pass an omnibus spending bill at the last minute.
But Idaho GOP Sen. Jim Risch raised a lot of eyebrows, and plenty of ire, when he decided to risk blowing up the spending bill to wage a political battle.
The battle he chose? Preventing the renaming of 90,769-acres of Central Idaho wilderness the Cecil D. Andrus-White Clouds Wilderness. Andrus died in August.
Idaho GOP Rep. Mike Simpson had added to the legislation a provision to honor Idaho’s renowned Democratic governor. And Risch did not like this at all.
The showdown, which began unfolding late Thursday night, quickly spread across social media and online as reporters covering the Senate vote tried to figure out why a deceased governor from Idaho was stalling things. |
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