House Pushes to limit President's right to designate monuments
A debated issue on the House has been passing because of some of the things President Obama has been doing. Differences in the House started to come out when Obama used his power to expand the California Coastal National Monument. The Republican House voted to scale back the president's authority to establish national monuments. Although the vote came off as 221 to 210 it didn't pass by the Democratic Senate however Republicans were eager to point out the differences they weren't liking. The legislation they have brought up was the 1906 Antiquities Act that limits the president to to one monument per state. This legislation would have to pass through environmental review. In my opinion, I don't think its anything bad for Obama wanting to redesign some monuments and make them larger. I do understand however, that some people would rather preserve it's history and leave them the way they are. I think the legislation would be enough to fix this problem so their can be no more differences between the House and the President.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-monuments-bill-20140327,0,4687496.story#axzz2xTfD6CDW
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