{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://newhouse.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/newhouse-announces-effort-overturn-grizzly-plan-demands-answers", "Newhouse Announces Effort to Overturn Grizzly Plan, Demands Answers from Administration Officials", "2024-05-16", "2024", "2024-05", "Republican", "House", "WA", "Dan Newhouse", "N000189", "newhouse.house.gov", "newhouse", "https://newhouse.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "Today, Rep. Dan Newhouse (WA-04) introduced a resolution of disapproval under Title 5 U.S. Code Chapter 8, the Congressional Review Act, in response to the Biden Administration finalizing its misguided plan to establish a nonessential experimental population of grizzly bears in the North Cascades ecosystem.\n\nRep. Newhouse questioned National Park Service Director, Chuck Sams, at a House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands Oversight hearing, and the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Martha Williams, on the final rule at a House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries Hearing.\n\nTo read the full notice of disapproval, click here.\n\nWatch Rep. Newhouse\u2019s remarks to Director Williams from the House Natural Resources Committee hearing HERE or read excerpts below:\n\n\"Director Williams, when we met last November, you told me that this 10(j) proposal was needed to expand management options due to the fact that the First Nation Tribes in British Colombia had plans to \u201cimminently\u201d move bears to the northern border of the NCE.\n\nI would now like to enter into the record correspondence between my staff and the Canadian government, specifically staff from British Columbia. This correspondence states that \u201cthere are no immediate plans to move bears into the Canadian side of the North Cascades Ecosystem.\u201d Isn\u2019t that interesting?\n\nWhat is abundantly clear to me now is your agency is relocating bears from other ecosystems to prevent the delisting in spite of population recovery metrics having been achieved as outlined under the ESA.\u201d\n\nWatch Rep. Newhouse\u2019s remarks to Director Sams from the House Natural Resources hearing HERE or read excerpts below:\n\n\u201cThe National Park Service, jointly with the Fish and Wildlife Service, recently decided against the will of my constituents that they will be introducing grizzly bears into my district.\n\nYou heard me correctly \u2013 the federal government has finalized a plan to airdrop grizzly bears into the North Cascades ecosystem.\n\nGrizzly Bears have not existed in this ecosystem for decades so NPS is not preserving a grizzly park, nor does it support the NPS\u2019s goal of \u201ccreating close-to-home opportunities for kids and families to get outside, be active, and have fun.\u201d It\u2019s too close-to-home for my constituents and is certainly not fun.\"\n\nTo learn more and watch the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands Oversight hearing, click here.\n\nTo watch the full House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries hearing, click here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:12:30Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://newhouse.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/newhouse-announces-effort-overturn-grizzly-plan-demands-answers"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7088837921619415, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}