NM lawmaker: Cartel benefits from Obama's move

Last week President Obama announced that 500,000 acres of mountainous and desert terrain would be set aside for the new Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument in southern New Mexico. This was nearly ten times the size of the request by the Republican congressman who represents that area, Steve Pearce, who wrote a bill (HR 995) requesting slightly more than 50,000 acres in Doña Ana County be set aside. John Hames shared with you:   NM lawmaker: Cartel benefits from Obama's move GOPUSA - A New Mexico congressman says Barack Obama clearly ignored Congress and usurped the democratic process when he unilaterally set aside a half-million acres of land for a national monument. Last week President Obama announced that 500,000 acres of mountainous and desert terrain would be set aside for the new Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument in southern New Mexico. This was nearly ten times the size of the request by the Republican congressman who represents that area, Steve Pearce, who wrote a bill (HR 995) requesting slightly more than 50,000 acres in Doña Ana County be set aside. Available on the App Store.

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