{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://zinke.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-zinke-denounces-blm-land-grab", "Congressman Zinke Denounces BLM Land Grab", "2024-04-18", "2024", "2024-04", "Republican", "House", "MT", "Ryan K. Zinke", "Z000018", "zinke.house.gov", "zinke", "https://zinke.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, Congressman Ryan Zinke released the following statement in opposition to the Bureau of Land Management\u2019s (BLM) final Conservation and Landscape Health rule.\n\n\u201cOnce again, the Biden Administration is ignoring the multiple use mandate on BLM lands in favor of radical environmentalists funding their political operation and controlling western lands,\u201d said Rep. Zinke. \u201cConservation has always been an end goal of the BLM\u2019s mandate and is already a focus for all those who utilize our public lands. The enactment of \u201cconservation leases\u201d is about control and is a direct threat to communities that create jobs, fund their schools, and build their livelihoods on grazing, mining, energy production and outdoor recreation. I will be submitting a rider on the FY25 Interior appropriations bill blocking this rule until a new administration is in control.\u201d\n\nBackground:\n\nThe Bureau of Land Management\u2019s Conservation and Landscape Health Rule is a radical shift in the way the agency approaches land management which has been in place for over 50 years.\n\nThis rule includes \u201cRestoration and Mitigation\u201d leases, previously named \u201cconservation leases\u201d which subvert the multiple use mandate established by the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 threatening access to federal lands for purposes such as grazing, mining, timber production, energy production, and outdoor recreation.\n\nThis rule expands designations of Areas of Critical Environmental Concern effectively locking up lands across the West.\n\nRep Zinke previously co-sponsored H.R. 3397 which requires BLM to withdraw the rule and included that language as a rider in the FY24 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T20:47:55Z"]], "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://zinke.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-zinke-denounces-blm-land-grab"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7647117599844933, "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"}