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“Equipment like fixed anchors were going to be removed from federal wilderness areas,” reported Nevada Congresswoman Susie Lee who has climbed with Honnold at Red Rock. Lee jumped into action championing the Protecting America’s Rock Climbing (PARC) Act protecting more than 50,000 climbing routes on public lands in 28 states. It passed unanimously in the House and Senate.

Lee said she noticed a need for the PARC Act when the National Park Service and the U.S. Forest Service proposed classifying fixed anchors, or the permanent hardware bolted into mountains for climbers to secure themselves, as prohibited in wilderness areas. The law now protects these fixed anchors, of which there are thousands across Southern Nevada.

“All of this is just a fraction of what could be affected by Trump’s order,” Lee said. “It’s not just a presidential power grab – it’s plain wrong.”

"I have a constituent whose daughter was accepted to pharmacy school, and because that funding has been frozen, they were hit with the $22,000 bill for her tuition because she had a fellowship through the NIH," said Lee. "We have reports from constituents who are waiting or from people in this country who are waiting for bone marrow, plant transplants, critical cancer clinical trials, many of those are being put on hold."

“At the top of the ticket, there was a lot of attention spent on talking only to Democrats,” said Rep. Susie Lee (D-Nev.), who won reelection by just shy of three percentage points despite Trump narrowly winning her Las Vegas-area district. “And I say, quit talking to ourselves and start listening to people.”