The trail was excellent in so far as it gave us the chance to engage intimately with the landscape. I ascended Inferno Cone (6,181 feet high) for stunning views over the national monument and beyond, and we both completed Broken Top Loop Trail with a short detour to Big Sink Overlook. We saw craters, spatter cones, cinder cones and lava fields. We arrived at the visitor centre and, after picking up a few leaflets about the national monument, drove along the excellent short loop road and the even shorter roads leading to trails or overlooks.
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The most recent eruption occurred only 2,000 years ago and geologists believe that similar events are likely in the future. Beginning 15,000 years ago, lava welled up from the Great Rift to produce the vast ocean of rock that exists today.
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But a volcano did not create the craters in this region of Idaho the lava derived from a series of deep fissures, known collectively as the Great Rift, that cross the Snake River Plains. The craters of Craters of the Moon are of volcanic origin, unlike the craters on the Moon itself that are the product of meteorite impacts. A year later Craters of the Moon National Monument was established to preserve “a weird and scenic landscape, peculiar to itself”. Stearns saw a place where “the dark craters and the cold lava were nearly destitute of vegetation”. Stearns described what came to be known as Craters of the Moon in 1923. One of his right-hand men during that 2012 fight was Shuster, who now has the reins and is trying to avoid a similar fate.“The surface of the Moon as seen through a telescope” is how geologist Harold T. Mica isn’t Transportation chairman anymore after reaching his term limit. Lawmakers eventually passed a shell bill that included language streamlining the approval process for transportation projects and went to a conference with the Senate that yielded a bill modeled largely on the upper chamber’s version. House leaders tried to build support for the bill by paying for it with revenue from expanded oil drilling, but that wasn’t enough to move the needle. Other regional issues came into play, like a ban on double-decker horse carriages, which riled Western lawmakers. Mica’s bill would have eventually cut transit funding out of the federal equation, drawing the ire of suburban Republicans who represent millions of commuters around the country that rely on subway and bus systems to get to and from work. Camp (R-Mich.), who is retiring at the end of the current Congress, was recently stymied when he put out his tax reform proposal and might not be inclined to move pieces of it.Īnd the Transportation Committee - and Boehner - are keenly aware how this ended up last time.Ī policy bill from then-Chairman John Mica (R-Fla.) didn’t win enough support to even make it to the floor for a vote. Transportation Chairman Bill Shuster (R-Pa.) faces a primary challenge on May 20. Still, the issue was not discussed at the Ways and Means Committee’s weekly lunch Wednesday despite a deadline looming this summer.Ī number of political complications are also hovering above this process. The idea of allowing American companies to bring back cash they’ve parked overseas at a lower tax rate - called repatriation - is gaining some steam among lawmakers. There’s chatter of moving parts of Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp’s tax bill to pay for the pricey highway extension.
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The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee is charged with writing the policy, and the Ways and Means Committee is supposed to find out how to pay for it. The situation is incredibly complicated in the House. Meanwhile, House Republicans have no idea what they will do. The White House released its four-year, $302 billion legislative proposal this week, but it stands no chance in the Republican House. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee, said Wednesday she would release a bill “early next week” that will include a small inflationary budget increase.
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Of course, the Senate and White House have their own ideas.
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( DRIVING THE DAY: Midterms enthusiasm gap favors GOP) And that’s just to keep current spending levels, which nearly all politicians agree are not nearly high enough.
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A yearlong patch would need upward of $10 billion, and returning to the tradition of six-year bills would cost $95 billion.