Senators Ponder $1.4 Billion Wildlife Recovery Bill

Senators Ponder $1.4 Billion Wildlife Recovery Bill
A kaleidoscope of Monarch butterflies hang from a tree branch, in the Piedra Herrada sanctuary, near Valle de Bravo, Mexico, on Jan. 4, 2015. Rebecca Blackwell, File/AP Photo
Nathan Worcester
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The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee heard expert testimony Dec. 8 on the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (RAWA), a bipartisan wildlife protection bill that would be funded by fines and other money collected from environmental or natural resource-related violations.

RAWA revises the 1937 Pittman-Robertson Act, which gave the tax money collected on firearms and ammunition to individual states for the purpose of protecting and studying wildlife.

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