WASHINGTON (AP) - After several false starts, the House is expected to take up a long-delayed bill to set aside more than 2 million acres in nine states as protected wilderness.
The House rejected the bill two weeks ago amid a partisan dispute over gun rights, but the measure was brought up again in the Senate and approved last week.
Because of a parliamentary maneuver adopted in the Senate, the House is likely to take up the bill Wednesday under a rule that blocks amendments or other motions to derail it.
The bill would confer the government’s highest level of protection on land in California, Colorado, Idaho, Michigan, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia.
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