AP - What's in a name? Plenty, say environmentalists who are delighted that the Democrats taking control of the House are renaming the House Resources Committee. From now on, it will be called the House Natural Resources Committee — the name it received in 1993, though it was changed only ...
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| Dems rename House environmental panel AP - What's in a name? Plenty, say environmentalists who are delighted that the Democrats taking control of the House are renaming the House Resources Committee. From now on, it will be called the House Natural Resources Committee — the name it received in 1993, though it was changed only two years later. Rep. Nick Rahall (news, bio, voting record), D-W.Va., is the incoming chairman. "It's great. They're putting the 'natural' back in the committee," said Anna Aurilio, legislative director for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. Republicans shortened the committee's name in 1995 when they gained control of Congress. Before 1993, and stretching back to 1948, the panel was referred to as the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. That was a change from the Committee on Public Lands and Surveys, the name given in 1921. The Committee on Public Lands, its original name, was created in 1816. | ||||
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