US MP Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-GA.
Washington – The US house approved a measure on Thursday that would codify part of President Donald Trump Executive order The renaming of the Gulf of Mexico as “Golf America”.
The draft law, which has almost passed a party line, 211-206 – Asks the head of each federal authority to “update each document and the map of the Federal Authority in accordance with the fresh name within six months of completion.
The US MP Don Bacon from Nebraska was the only Republican who voted against the measure.
“Our country has more important problems that you have to worry about,” said Bacon in an explanation that was shared with the newsroom of the states.
“The administration makes great progress to secure our border and waste waste in the government. However, we have to concentrate on the Reconciliation Act and the strengthening of Medicaid for every American that is needed. The renaming of water bodies is not a priority and sends a bad message to the rest of the world,” he said.
All Democrats contradicted. Sixteen house members have not elected, including eight Republicans and eight Democrats.
US -Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who presented the invoice In January said: “This is so important for the American people” while the ground debate on Thursday.
The Republican of Georgia said: “The American people proudly deserve their country, and they proudly deserve the waters we own, which we protect with our military and our coast guard and all the shops that thrive along these waters.”
It is unlikely that legislation in the Senate will be moved far, where it would take 60 votes to get forward. The Republicans control the chamber 53-47. The Senate has 45 Democrats, but two independent, Sens. Angus King by Maine and Bernie Sanders from Vermont, Caucus with the party.
Meanwhile a federal judge in April Page with the Associated Press And gave the wire service an injunction in her case against the Trump administration because of allegations of the refused access to restricted rooms in the White House, since it used “Gulf of Mexico” as “Gulf of America”.
The draft law states: “Any reference in a law, a card, regulation, a document, paper or other United States records on the Gulf of Mexico is considered an indication of the Golf of America” and leads the Interior Minister Doug Burgum to “monitor the implementation of the renaming”.
In A Administrative policy On Tuesday, the White House said that it was “strongly supported” to adopt the bill and that Trump’s advisor would recommend signing it into the law if the legislation were presented to it in its current form.
Before the vote, Hakeem Jeffries, the minority manager, urged the regulations, which he described as “stupid, small, small -minded and sycophaphant legislation”.
“What do we do, people? There are serious problems that the American people want to face us,” added the New York Democrat.
