{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://zinke.house.gov/media/press-releases/conservation-champion-steve-rinella-calls-zinkes-actions-heroic", "Conservation Champion Steve Rinella Calls Zinke\u2019s Actions Heroic", "2025-06-25", "2025", "2025-06", "Republican", "House", "MT", "Ryan K. Zinke", "Z000018", "zinke.house.gov", "zinke", "https://zinke.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 Today, Steve Rinella published an article in The Free Press defending public lands and opposing any public land sales in the \u201cBig Beautiful Bill.\u201d Included in the article is direct praise for Western Montana Congressman Ryan Zinke and his fight to keep public lands in public hands.\n\n\u201cLast month, a provision was inserted into the House\u2019s version of Trump\u2019s Big Beautiful Bill mandating that the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service sell a half-million acres of public land in Nevada and Utah. That proposal was eventually removed (heroically, in my view) thanks to Ryan Zinke, a second-term Republican congressman from Montana, who campaigned on a promise to keep \u2018public lands in public hands.\u2019\u201d\n\nRead Rinella\u2019s full article here.\n\nSteve Rinella is a popular podcaster, conservationist, outdoorsman, and business owner. He is the founder of MeatEater, Inc., and outdoor lifestyle brand located in Bozeman, MT. Alongside Zinke, Rinella also recently received the James D. Range Conservation Award, the top honor for conservation given by the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership.\n\nCongressman Zinke has been the loudest voice protecting public lands in Congress and has been solid in his staunch opposition to any large-scale public land sales being included in the \u201cOne Big Beautiful Bill.\u201d He is also the author and sponsor of the \u201cPublic Lands in Public Hands Act,\u201d originally introduced in the 118th Congress and reintroduced in the 119th Congress, which would ban the sale of most public lands and require congressional approval for disposal of publicly accessible federal land tracts over 300 acres and for public land tracts over 5 acres if accessible via a public waterway. Congressman Zinke is the co-chair and co-founder of the Public Lands Caucus.\n\nRead more about Congressman Zinke\u2019s success stripping public land sales out of the House reconciliation bill here.\n\nRead more about Congressman Zinke\u2019s Public Lands in Public Hands Acthere.\n\nRead more about the Public Lands Caucus here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T01:08:28Z"]], "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/conservation-champion-steve-rinella-calls-zinkes-actions-heroic"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7851000409573317, "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"}