"Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) blasted Republicans on Thursday for refusing to take up a bill to reauthorize a federal conservation fund.

The Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) expired on Wednesday night. Though the $300 million-a-year program will be funded under the continuing resolution approved Wednesday, it will not be able to accept new funding from offshore oil drilling fees until it is reauthorized.

“It is a program supported by Democrats and Republicans, by rural communities and urban communities,” Reid said in a floor speech."

Devin Henry reports for The Hill October 1, 2015. [2]