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
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    8 hours ago

    Not disagreeing, but that’s two years of federal-level opportunity to make some deals for the people back home. I’m just saying they might vote yes once in awhile on something somewhere on this side of the galaxy’s “normal” in exchange for a yes from Them for whatever it is.

    Nothing like the Big Boof Budget Bill, which holds the whole country hostage. We’ve seen lots of shutdowns before, a month or two and people get crazy wiggy. I think we should go longer, but I’m not in need of essential services at the moment. So I would think that.