Updates from Congressman Rob Bishop

Bishop Celebrates NDAA Committee Passage
 

WASHINGTON – The House Armed Services Committee has approved the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2019. As a senior member of the Committee, Rep. Bishop voted for the NDAA. Bishop offered the following statement:

“This year’s NDAA reflects Congress’s continued commitment to uphold the Constitution and provide for the common defense. This bill also recognizes Utah’s important national security role. The strength of our military is once again a priority for the administration, and the Armed Services Committee is right to pass an NDAA that shares that priority.”

BACKGROUND:

• A Bishop provision in the bill streamlines the process by which the Department of Defense uses public lands in the west on existing military test and training ranges, saving the Pentagon millions of dollars each year in readiness funds by eliminating unnecessary bureaucracy currently required to have military leases renewed. The military will no longer have to undertake expensive 25-year environmental reviews for the Department of Interior to renew the military’s leases on public lands in order for our troops to be able to continue to train to fight and defend our nation.
• Included in the bill a Bishop provision transferring approximately 80 acres of surplus U.S. Forest Service Land in the Wasatch-Cache National Forest near Bear Lake to the Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory (SDL) so that SDL may continue to use this site for advanced scientific research, education, and other endeavors helpful to the military mission. 
• Bishop spearheaded an effort to augment funding for nuclear modernization. The bulk of this work will be accomplished at Hill AFB. Orbital ATK is also vying for the solid rocket motor portion of the project.
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• **UPDATE**

   

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  Rep. Rob Bishop has introduced the Golden Spike 150th Anniversary Act and it has been designated H.R. 5751. When a member of congress introduces a piece of legislation, a clerk of the House writes the assigned number on a card like the one shown above. In the case of the Golden Spike 150th Anniversary Act, the clerk noted the time of introduction as 12:47 PM; the exact time the final spike was driven to complete the nation’s first transcontinental railroad.

   

   

   

   

  Congressman Rob Bishop Introduces:
  Golden Spike 150th Anniversary Act

   

  WASHINGTON – Rep. Rob Bishop (UT-01) is introducing the, “Golden Spike 150th Anniversary Act.” This bill recognizes the historic significance of the completion of America’s first transcontinental railroad by establishing the 52nd U.S. Historical Park and designating it the, “Golden Spike National Historical Park.” Reps. Chris Stewart, Mia Love, & John Curtis are all original cosponsors of this bill.

   

  Bishop said, “The Golden Spike 150th Anniversary Act further acknowledges Utah's Promontory Summit as a place that changed the world. This new Park will not only preserve the history made on that spring day in 1869, but also the herculean efforts which led to the driving of the spike and the new course of history that followed.”

   

  The Act also creates the Transcontinental Railroad Network. The Network will include sites related to the history, construction, and legacy of the Transcontinental Railroad and will be similar in makeup to the Underground Railroad Network to Freedom and the African American Civil Rights Network.

   

  CLICK HERE for bill text