national monuments

This is in reply to a recent post
http://carsonnow.org/story/01/17/2017/heller-and-amodei-are-wrong-side-h....

Exactly WHAT "ideology" does not let Amodei and Heller do "what is best for the state"? That maybe we are a constitutional republic where the people have a say through their elected representatives to decide on public matters? What a terrible "ideology." I wonder if anybody cares where it came from and why. (Or course, the use of the use that shopworn marxist phrase, "wrong side of history," is NOT ideological…)

Last week Congressman Amodei and Senator Heller introduced legislation to “prevent the threat of executive action designating or expanding national monuments without Congressional approval or local support.” Their legislation would add Nevada to Wyoming as the only states exempt from presidential designation of National Monuments, except as authorized by Congress.

Two members of Nevada’s congressional delegation have introduced legislation that would bar the president from creating or expanding national monuments without congressional approval. Republicans Sen. Dean Heller and Rep. Mark ...

Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., has introduced legislation that would limit the federal government's ability to establish additional national monuments.Under the bill, congressional approval would be req...