{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.lummis.senate.gov/press-releases/lummis-leads-senate-western-caucus-push-to-rescind-public-lands-rule-defend-multiple-use-of-public-lands/", "Lummis Leads Senate Western Caucus Push to Rescind Public Lands Rule, Defend Multiple-Use of Public Lands", "2025-11-10", "2025", "2025-11", "Republican", "Senate", "WY", "Cynthia M. Lummis", "L000571", "www.lummis.senate.gov", "lummis", "https://www.lummis.senate.gov/press-releases/page/", "scraper", "Washington, D.C.\u2014 Senate Western Caucus Chair Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and 11 Senate Western Caucus members sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum voicing the Senate Western Caucus\u2019 support for the proposed rescission of the Conservation and Landscape Health Rule, commonly referred to as the Public Lands Rule.\n\nThe so-called Public Lands Rule was a brazen attempt by the Biden administration to undermine the multiple-use mandate that has governed our public lands for decades. By illegally adding \u201cconservation\u201d as a land use designation without congressional authorization, this rule threatened to lock up millions of acres of federal land from the multiple-use mandate. This misguided Biden rule seeks to close off our public lands from recreational access, energy development, livestock grazing, and other activities that western communities depend on.\n\nThe Senators wrote, \u201cOur constituents live with and rely on the use of Federal lands every day. These lands are not abstract reserves to be locked away but working landscapes that provide food, energy, recreation, and cultural heritage. The Conservation and Landscape Health Rule, or Public Lands Rule, (88 Fed. Reg. 19583) attempted to upend this equilibrium by elevating \u201cconservation\u201d to a standalone use of Federal lands \u2013 placing it on par with, and in practice above, traditional productive uses such as grazing, mineral development, timber harvest, and recreation. That is not just legally dubious \u2013 it is devastating for the West.\n\nThe letter continues, \u201cSince the 2023 Public Lands Rule took effect, we\u2019ve heard from county commissioners, ranchers, energy developers, mining operators, and local businesses who are faced with regulatory ambiguity, exclusionary leases, and a chilling effect that discourages new investment.\u201d\n\nTo read the full letter, click here.\n\nSenators John Barrasso (R-WY), Steve Daines (R-MT), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), John Curtis (R-UT), Mike Crapo (R-ID), James Risch (R-ID), Mike Lee (R-UT), Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), John Hoeven (R-ND), Tim Sheehy (R-MT) all signed the letter.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:52:45Z"]], "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.lummis.senate.gov/press-releases/lummis-leads-senate-western-caucus-push-to-rescind-public-lands-rule-defend-multiple-use-of-public-lands/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8310177363455296, "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"}