GOP plan to sell more than 3,200 square miles of federal lands is found to violate Senate rules
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A plan to sell more than 3,200 square miles of federal lands has been ruled out of Republicans’ big tax and spending cut bill after the Senate parliamentarian determined the proposal by Senate Energy Chairman Mike Lee would violate the chamber’s rules.

A plan to sell more than 2 million acres of federal lands has been ruled out of Republicans’ big tax and spending cut bill after the Senate parliamentarian determined the proposal by Senate Energy Chairman Mike Lee would violate the chamber’s rules.

Lee, a Utah Republican, has proposed selling public lands in the West to states or other entities for use as housing or infrastructure. The plan would revive a longtime ambition of Western conservatives to cede lands to local control after a similar proposal failed in the House earlier this year.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    6·
    9 hours ago

    Hold them in contempt of Congress,

    Contempt of Congress starts in committee. Which committee chair would you expect to get contempt charges through?

    Agriculture – Rep. Glenn Thompson (R-Pa.)

    Appropriations – Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.)

    Armed Services – Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.)

    Budget – Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-Texas)

    Education and the Workforce – Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.)

    Energy and Commerce – Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.)

    Financial Services – Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.)

    Foreign Affairs – Rep. Brian Mast (R-Fla.)

    Homeland Security – Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.)

    Judiciary – Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio)

    Natural Resources – Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.)

    Oversight and Accountability – Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.)

    Science, Space, and Technology – Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas)

    Small Business – Rep. Roger Williams (R-Texas)

    Transportation and Infrastructure – Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.)

    Veterans’ Affairs – Rep. Mike Bost (R-Ill.)

    Ways and Means – Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.)

    file lawsuits

    27 so far (for six months, that’s not too bad)

    campaign in Mike Lee’s home district and make a huge deal about it

    Utah’s 1st Congressional district is 75% republiQan. How much would you like to spend there?

    stall bad bills in committee

    There’s a number of state bills being stalled (by both parties), but I only see articles about the budget bill. This one would need some more specifics

    haul in private industry leaders and grill them on why they want to violate federal law and destroy protected land

    Again, that happens in committee, which committee did you imagine would allow that? These aren’t reasonable, rational people.

    - literally anything they have the power to do.

    I think that’s boiling down to concealed carry in the chamber at this point.