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Aug 20, 2012
| Pagosa Daily Post
Tipton's wildfire bill heading to HR floor?
Early this month, the House Natural Resources Committee advanced Rep. Scott Tipton’s (R-CO) Healthy Forest Management and Wildfire Prevention Act (H.R. 6089), which would increase state and local control in proactively restoring forests to a healthy natural condition.
Aug 20, 2012
| Durango Herald
Tipton: Area has exports potential
This was the message at an “Export 101” event hosted Friday by U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, and Colorado’s U.S. Export Assistance Center at Fort Lewis College, Tipton’s alma mater.
Aug 6, 2012
| Washington Times
Congressmen grill consumer watchdog chief
Rep. Scott R. Tipton, Colorado Republican, questioned whether the 400-plus pages of regulations were overly burdensome on small businesses.
Aug 6, 2012
| KUBC Colorado Radio
Tipton introduces bill to eliminate estate tax
US Representative Scott Tipton introduced legislation in Congress yesterday that would provide relief from the so called ‘death tax.’ The bill would eliminate the estate tax which is currently levied when a family farm or business is passed on to a new generation.
Aug 6, 2012
| Pueblo Chieftain Editorial
Forest health
We urge Congress to pass Rep. Tipton’s legislation this year so that proper management can be re-established for Western forests. We cannot allow further devastating fires because of inattention to the health of our forests.
Aug 6, 2012
| KRDO News 13
Bill gives local leaders say in forest fire prevention
Rep. Scott Tipton is pushing a plan that would give local leaders, like county commissioners, input in managing federal forest lands in their areas. The Healthy Forest Management Act of 2012 gives state and local governments a stronger voice in developing polices for the management of nationals forests and other public lands.
Aug 6, 2012
| Durango Herald
At town hall, Tipton gets critical
Tipton has served in Congress for a year and seven months, but he has three decades of private sector experience, which puts him in the minority of members of Congress, he said.
Aug 6, 2012
| Colorado Springs Independent
Lessons learned
Who better than local elected officials to help mitigate the wildfire threat on federal lands near urban areas? That's the idea behind House Resolution 6089, introduced by U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez.
Aug 6, 2012
| Pagosa Sun
Want to do export business? Fort Lewis event to explore options.
Congressman Scott Tipton and Colorado’s U.S. Export Assistance Center have teamed up to put on an Export 101 event.
Jul 20, 2012
| Daily Caller
Doc says 'physicians have reached a tipping point
“Maybe we should have started with you at the very beginning, talked to the physicians before they started writing a 2,000-plus-page bill that many of them [politicians] didn’t read, yet passed,” Republican Rep. Scott Tipton said. “[Then-Majority Leader Pelosi] said we”ll find out what’s in it once it’s passed and, unfortunately, that discovery is still continuing.”
