HUNTING AND TRAPPING

Amendments

Sports: protect and enhance opportunities for recreational fishing, hunting, and shooting (H.R. 3590), H1570, H1575, H1576, H1577, H1578, H1579, H1580, H1581, H1583 [4FE]

——— protect and enhance opportunities for recreational fishing, hunting, and shooting (H.R. 3590), consideration (H. Res. 470), H1562 [4FE]

——— protect and enhance opportunities for recreational fishing, hunting, and shooting (S. 2363), S3671, S3672 [12JN], S3945 [24JN], S4170 [26JN], S4226, S4227, S4229, S4230, S4231 [7JY], S4273, S4274, S4275, S4276, S4277, S4279, S4281, S4282, S4283 [8JY], S4298, S4339, S4340, S4341, S4342, S4343, S4344, S4345, S4346, S4348, S4349, S4350, S4351, S4352, S4353, S4354 [9JY], S4419, S4420, S4421, S4422, S4423, S4425, S4426 [10JY]

Bills and resolutions

Land and Water Conservation Fund: ensure amounts are made available for projects to provide recreational public access to public lands (see H.R. 3962), H1510 [29JA]

National Wildlife Refuge Week: designate (see S. Res. 556), S5698 [17SE]

Ozark National Scenic Riverways: administer in accordance with general management plan for that unit of the National Park System (see H.R. 4182), H2256 [6MR]

——— transfer all Federal land, facilities, and other assets to Missouri for purposes of maintaining a State park (see H.R. 4029), H1718 [10FE]

Public lands: make continuing appropriations for certain programs that benefit sportsmen by preventing closure of national park and other public land closures during a Government shutdown (see S. 2327), S2953 [13MY]

——— require hunting activities be a land use in management plans for compatible Federal lands (see H.R. 5530), H7882 [18SE]

Sports: protect and enhance opportunities for recreational fishing, hunting, and shooting (see S. 1996), S763 [4FE] (see S. 2363), S3184 [20MY]

——— protect and enhance opportunities for recreational fishing, hunting, and shooting (H.R. 3590), consideration (see H. Res. 470), H1544 [3FE]

Cloture motions

Sports: protect and enhance opportunities for recreational fishing, hunting, and shooting (S. 2363), S4298 [9JY], S4377 [10JY]

——— protect and enhance opportunities for recreational fishing, hunting, and shooting (S. 2363), motion to proceed, S3997 [25JN], S4210 [7JY]

Letters

Bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act: Alan Rowsome, Wilderness Society, S4376 [10JY]

——— Lawrence G. Keane, National Shooting Sports Foundation, Inc., S4375 [10JY]

——— several conservation organizations, S4376 [10JY]

——— several Safari Club International Diana Award recipients, S4375 [10JY]

Motions

Sports: protect and enhance opportunities for recreational fishing, hunting, and shooting (H.R. 3590), recommit, H1613 [5FE]

——— protect and enhance opportunities for recreational fishing, hunting, and shooting (S. 2363), S3245 [22MY], S3319 [2JN], S3345 [3JN], S3387 [4JN], S3433 [5JN], S3887 [23JN], S3903 [24JN], S3949 [25JN], S4095 [26JN], S4197 [7JY], S4244 [8JY], S4298 [9JY]

Press releases

Congressional Sportsmen’s Caucus Co-Chair Introduces Bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act of 2014: Congressional Sportsmen’s Foundation, S4374 [10JY]

Senate Sportsmen’s Bill Upholds Public Access, Conservation: Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership (organization), S4375 [10JY]

Remarks in House

Dept. of the Interior: authorize plan addressing impact of climate change on recreational hunting and fishing, E165 [5FE]

——— promote authority to consider climate change when making decisions related to recreation and conservation on public lands, H1581, H1582 [4FE], E176 [6FE]

——— report to Congress on economic impact of efforts to protect and enhance opportunities for recreational fishing, hunting, and shooting, H1576, H1577 [4FE]

Endangered species: allow importation of polar bear trophies taken in sport hunts in Canada before the date the polar bear was determined to be a threatened species, H1565 [4FE], E191 [11FE]

EPA: exempt components used in manufacture of hunting and recreational shooting ammunition and fishing tackle from regulation under the Toxic Substances Control Act, H1566–H1568 [4FE], E176 [6FE]

Kisatchie National Forest: prohibit restrictions on the use of dogs in deer hunting activities, H1580, H1581 [4FE]

Land and Water Conservation Fund: anniversary, H7627 [17SE], E1428, E1448 [17SE], E1463, E1468, E1478 [19SE]

——— ensure amounts are made available for projects to provide recreational public access to public lands (H.R. 3962), H1502 [29JA]

——— reauthorize, H1556 [4FE]

National Environmental Policy Act: prohibit waiver for management decisions in national wildlife refuges, H1578 [4FE]

Ozark National Scenic Riverways: allow continued use of motorized vessels, H1579 [4FE]

Sports: protect and enhance opportunities for recreational fishing, hunting, and shooting (H.R. 3590), H1564–H1584 [4FE], H1600, H1611–H1615 [5FE], E165 [5FE], E176 [6FE], E191, E194, E195 [11FE]

——— protect and enhance opportunities for recreational fishing, hunting, and shooting (H.R. 3590), consideration (H. Res. 470), H1555–H1564 [4FE]

——— protect and enhance opportunities for recreational fishing, hunting, and shooting (H.R. 3590), motion to recommit, H1613 [5FE]

——— recognize heritage of recreational fishing, hunting, and shooting on public lands and ensure continued opportunities for those activities, H1567 [4FE], E194 [11FE]

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: protect farmers and hunters from fines due to taking of migratory birds on agricultural fields by clarifying distinction between normal agricultural practices and baiting, H1580 [4FE]

Wildlife and Hunting Heritage Conservation Council: establish Advisory Committee to advise Depts. of the Interior and Agriculture on wildlife and habitat conservation, hunting, and recreational shooting, H1567 [4FE]

——— expand membership of Advisory Committee to include veterans service organizations, H1577, H1578 [4FE]

——— expand membership of Advisory Committee to include women and minority hunting and fishing advocacy, outreach, or education organizations, H1577 [4FE]

Remarks in Senate

Caldwell, ID: tribute to Anglers Habitat (business), S2951 [13MY]

EPA: exempt components used in manufacture of hunting and recreational shooting ammunition and fishing tackle from regulation under the Toxic Substances Control Act, S6810 [13DE]

Land and Water Conservation Fund: anniversary, S5660, S5669–S5673, S5677 [17SE]

——— ensure amounts are made available for projects to provide recreational public access to public lands, S4304 [9JY], S5661 [17SE]

——— reauthorize, S5660 [17SE]

——— recognize anniversary, reauthorize, and call for full, permanent, and dedicated funding, S4377 [10JY]

National parks and recreation areas: permit transport of bows and archery equipment through national parks, S4369 [10JY]

National Wildlife Refuge Week: designate (S. Res. 556), S5720 [17SE]

Sports: protect and enhance opportunities for recreational fishing, hunting, and shooting (H.R. 3590), S834 [6FE], S837 [10FE]

——— protect and enhance opportunities for recreational fishing, hunting, and shooting (S. 1996), S774 [4FE], S775 [6FE]

——— protect and enhance opportunities for recreational fishing, hunting, and shooting (S. 2363), S3193 [20MY], S3196 [21MY], S4298, S4304, S4313–S4315 [9JY], S4367, S4369, S4374–S4378 [10JY], S4573 [17JY]

——— protect and enhance opportunities for recreational fishing, hunting, and shooting (S. 2363), motion to proceed, S3245 [22MY], S3345 [3JN], S3387 [4JN], S3433 [5JN], S3845 [19JN], S3887 [23JN], S3903 [24JN], S3949 [25JN], S4095 [26JN], S4197, S4206–S4208, S4211 [7JY], S4233, S4244 [8JY], S4292–S4296, S4298 [9JY]

Weapons: ensure that individuals traveling with properly secured knives are not prosecuted under local or State laws that ban such knives, S4369 [10JY]

Reports filed

Consideration of H.R. 3590, Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 470) (H. Rept. 113–339), H1544 [3FE]

Ozark National Scenic Riverways Administration in Accordance With General Management Plan for that Unit of the National Park System: Committee on Natural Resources (House) (H.R. 4182) (H. Rept. 113–594), H7527 [15SE]

Recreational Fishing and Hunting Heritage and Opportunities Act: Committee on Natural Resources (House) (H.R. 1825) (H. Rept. 113–337), H1514 [31JA]

Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act: Committee on Natural Resources (House) (H.R. 2799) (H. Rept. 113–336), H1510 [29JA]

Texts of

H. Res. 470, consideration of H.R. 3590, Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act, H1555 [4FE]

H.R. 3590, Sportsmen’s Heritage and Recreational Enhancement Act, H1570–H1575 [4FE]

S. Res. 556, National Wildlife Refuge Week, S5704 [17SE]