{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases/crapo-risch-ricketts-raise-concerns-over-proposal-to-include-federal-lands-in-private-investment-portfolios", "Crapo, Risch, Ricketts Raise Concerns Over Proposal to Include Federal Lands in Private Investment Portfolios", "2023-11-07", "2023", "2023-11", "Republican", "Senate", "ID", "Mike Crapo", "C000880", "www.crapo.senate.gov", "crapo", "https://www.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senators Mike Crapo,, Jim Risch (both R-Idaho) and Pete Ricketts (R-Nebraska) sent a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) expressing concerns about a proposed rule giving Natural Asset Companies, including foreign investors, private management authority over federal land.\n\n\u201cWe are concerned that corporate involvement in the stewardship and control of our federal lands would create unintended consequences,\u201d the senators wrote. \u201cThe proposed rule could lead to a preservationist-only approach to federal land management instead of an \u2018all-of-the-above\u2019 working lands approach as intended by the creation of our federal land programs.\u201d\n\n\u201cWe are also alarmed by the SEC\u2019s allowance under the proposed rule of foreign investment in these uniquely U.S. assets,\u201d the senators continued. \u201cAt a time in which we are actively working to deter our adversaries, we should not be open our federal lands up to investment from the same adversaries.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:01:09Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases/crapo-risch-ricketts-raise-concerns-over-proposal-to-include-federal-lands-in-private-investment-portfolios"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.2091919779777527, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}