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Presented by Mr. Peduto
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WHEREAS, a broad-based coalition publicly supported and encouraged Pennsylvania's congressional delegation to take action in 2004 to prevent over $1 million in Pennsylvania tax dollars from being spent on subsidizing road building for the timber industry into Alaska's Tongass National Rainforest; and
WHEREAS, the current federal budget debate and reconciliation process, containing sweeping budget cuts, threatens to adversely impact thousands of Pennsylvania's children, seniors, low-income residents, and general operational functions; and
WHEREAS, $48 million were spent in 2004 to subsidize logging in the Tongass Rainforest, neither creating new jobs nor producing profitable timber sales form the lumber harvested; and
WHEREAS, Pennsylvanians are currently being asked to pay their tax dollars into a fiscally irresponsible practice that serves to finance the destruction of the largest remaining temperate rainforest in the world.
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Council of the City of Pittsburgh requests that Pennsylvania's Members of Congress protect Pennsylvania's taxpayers and once again support the bipartisan Chabot/Andrews Amendment to the Interior Appropriations bill of 2005.