[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 9]
[Senate]
[Page 12642]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   CONSENT TO DISCHARGE AND REFERRAL

  Ms. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, last week the leadership sought 
unanimous consent to discharge S. 1294, a bill to designate as 
wilderness certain public land in the Cherokee National Forest in the 
State of Tennessee, from the Senate Energy and Natural Resources 
Committee and to rerefer the bill to the Agriculture Committee. I am 
consenting to this discharge and rereferral because the wilderness in 
this bill would be created out of public lands in the Cherokee National 
Forest, a national forest created from lands acquired under the Weeks 
Act. The Agriculture Committee has primary jurisdiction for acquired 
lands forests. However, I am not conceding the Senate Energy and 
Natural Resources Committee jurisdiction over national forests created 
from the public domain or its jurisdiction over our Nation's wilderness 
system.

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