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One of my most closely held political views is that the level of government closest to the people on any given issue is the best suited to act.

IN 2003, Gale Norton, then the secretary of the interior, and Michael Leavitt, then the governor of Utah, struck a deal that removed federal protections from about 2.6 million acres of public land in Utah that the Clinton administration had designated as potential wilderness.

For the period Nov. 13-19 U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-Hurley • 2431 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20515.

As the largest, most conspicuous proposed development in recent memory, the hotel/convention center proposed for the site of the former Cantine Mill on Partition Street has elicited no small amount of opinions.

We are in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. More than 27 million American workers are either unemployed, underemployed or have given up looking for work.

From Phillips For Congress: Phillips Criticizes NYC 9/11 Trials, Trials will Give Terrorist Suspects the Stage, Put America at Risk Binghamton, NY --- George Phillips, Candidate for US Congress against Maurice Hinchey, sharply criticized the Justice Department decision to give alleged terrorists civilian trials in New York City.

At a four-hour-long Ithaca hearing, the State Department of Conservation repeatedly was urged to withdraw its proposed program to regulate natural gas drilling in the Marcellus shale underlying Tompkins County and surrounding regions of New York State.

A group of House Democrats alarmed over accusations the Federal Reserve mishandled the government's $85 billion bailout of American International Group want Congress to conduct a top-to-bottom review of the agency.

They were America's first patriots, the ones who fought for democracy and freedom.

Who hasn't pondered the terrible irony of soldiers who fought in Iraq or Afghanistan and survived, only to return home and be killed by an army psychiatrist at Ft.

Rep. Maurice Hinchey, Democrat from New York, is trying to by-pass the congressional debate of H.R. 1925, which would close over 9 million acres in Utah to OHVs.

A New York Congressman says the vote on the Appropriations Conference Bill could be delayed into December, in part over funding for the VH-71 Presidential Helicopter.

From a press release issued by AMA U.S. representatives request administrative order that would shut off-highway vehicles out of 9.4 million acres in Utah PICKERINGTON, Ohio -- The U.S. representative from New York who is sponsoring U.S. House bill H.R. 1925, which would close 9.4 million acres to off-highway vehicle riding in Utah, has sent a ...

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been likened to the Vietnam War. Despite the concerns about the cost of the two current conflicts today, returning soldiers are not treated with the disdain that many Vietnam vets met when they came home.

A letter signed by Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadephia, chairman of the bishops' committee on pro-life activities, and Bishop William Murphy of Rockville Centre, N.Y., had "strongly urged" the congressmen to vote for the Stupak-Pitts amendment, which they said was "an essential improvement in health-care reform legislation" that would "keep in ...

Eighty-nine House members are asking Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to protect 9.4 million acres of red rocks lands in Utah while Congress works on legislation.

Now Congress has ordered the agency to take another look. As part of the $32 billion Interior and Environment Appropriations Bill recently signed by President Obama, lawmakers asked the EPA to re-visit hydraulic fracturing, the process where copious amounts of water and sand mixed with toxic chemical additives are furiously pumped underground to ...

Another set of eyes. That is what the federal Environmental Protection Agency has been told it should provide in reviewing the hotly debated natural gas drilling technique called hydro-fracturing. It's a good move.

BINGHAMTON Republican George Phillips, who lost to Congressman Maurice Hinchey a year ago, says he plans on taking on the popular Democrat in next year's election.

The safety of fracking -- a controversial process to stimulate natural gas production from the Marcellus Shale -- will be re-evaluated by the Obama administration.