Ahead of the Senate Budget amendment votes, the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) sent the following letter to Senators urging them to support Amendment No. 2107 to H. Con. Res. 14, the Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Resolution. The League of Conservation Voters will strongly consider including votes related to these amendments in our 2025 National Environmental Scorecard.

April 4, 2025
U.S. Senate
Washington, DC 20515

Re: Support Amendment No. 2107 to H. Con. Res. 14

Dear Senator:

The League of Conservation Voters (LCV) believes that everyone has a right to clean air, clean water, public lands, and a safe climate protected by a just and equitable democracy. Each year, LCV publishes the National Environmental Scorecard, which details the voting records of members of Congress on environmental legislation. The Scorecard is distributed to LCV members, concerned voters nationwide, and the media.

We urge you to support Amendment No. 2107 to H. Con. Res. 14, which would ensure our nation’s treasured public lands are not sold off to pay for tax cuts for billionaires. The blatant effort to sell off and privatize public lands to benefit industry is a direct threat to the rights of all Americans to access nature, have clean air to breathe and water to drink, and to safeguard their culture and history. If efforts to sell off public lands succeed, the resulting loss of millions of acres of public land will alter the nation’s landscape for generations to come, throw our federal land management system into chaos, devastate wildlife and biodiversity, and so much more.

For all these reasons, we strongly support the amendment sponsored by Senators Hickenlooper and Heinrich and supported by Senators Bennet, Kelly, Lujan, Padilla, Murray, Rosen, Cortez Masto, Wyden, Merkley, and Hirono. We urge Senators to vote YES on Amendment No. 2107 and oppose the sell off of our public lands. LCV will strongly consider including this vote in our 2025 National Environmental Scorecard.

Sincerely,

Gene Karpinski
President