Now it’s 1.5 million acres being sold! Contact your representatives!

These congressmen need to hear thank you. I will be sure to contact Zinke. Proud to have him as my rep today.

“The provision was stripped after at least six Western Republicans, led by Zinke, said they wouldn’t support the budget if it contained the land-sale amendment.”
 
These congressmen need to hear thank you. I will be sure to contact Zinke. Proud to have him as my rep today.

“The provision was stripped after at least six Western Republicans, led by Zinke, said they wouldn’t support the budget if it contained the land-sale amendment.”
How do you find out who the six were, any idea?
 
These congressmen need to hear thank you. I will be sure to contact Zinke. Proud to have him as my rep today.

“The provision was stripped after at least six Western Republicans, led by Zinke, said they wouldn’t support the budget if it contained the land-sale amendment.”
Good news, but I’m not shocked. Sometimes things are put in bills to be taken out. I guess Zinke is no longer a budget hawk.
 
The climax is yet to come. He can still bring it back in the Senate version I believe.
It would require a vote in the house which would put those claiming victory now back on the hot seat. Won’t happen. They are playing the long game here, betting Americans will get tired.
 
Kinda ironic that a self proclaimed PLT advocate gets very Not in My Backyard when it actually is in her backyard.
She spoke very well though and I appreciate her work.
 
You are just a ray of sunshine.
Sorry. I just see the game. Like I said, it is good news, but people shouldn’t act like they won the war. Watch how the deficit no longer matters to those who ran on “but the deficit”. Watch how they continue to strangle the funding from the management of the same public land you asked them to preserve. Just watch. Nothing ever gets solved in DC. They just move the chess pieces and celebrate.
 
I would not be at all surprised if this was a calculated loss. The main event of the effort is likely the stripped funding for everything from Americorp, research, LWCF, conservation, DoI and DoA staffing, and many more. Whether it is 5, 10 or whatever years from now, all public land administration and management will be so much more dysfunctional there will be all the more reason to just dump and dispose of it. Mike Lee is still getting his jollies off.
 
The climax is yet to come. He can still bring it back in the Senate version I believe.
He's going to be disappointed like normal. If it is amended it will have to go back to the house - and with continued applied pressure- i think the house will stand for public land.

I recently heard that a congressional staffer considers a topic "overwhelming" if they get 10 calls about it. A really low bar for all of us if we care about public lands.
 

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