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Senator John Hickenlooper (D-CO) and Ranking Member Martin Heinrich (D-NM) sponsored an amendment to H.Con.Res. 14, the Senate Budget Resolution, to prevent Congress from using the proceeds from public land sales to reduce the federal deficit and pay for billionaire tax cuts. Efforts to sell and privatize public lands to benefit extractive industries and real estate developers is a direct threat to people’s access to nature, clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and to safeguard their culture and history. The sell off of public lands would forever alter the nation’s landscape, devastate wildlife and biodiversity, and risk nearly 400,000 jobs and over $45 billion in direct economic output. It would also jeopardize the larger outdoor recreation economy which supports over 5 million jobs and generates $1.2 trillion. On April 5, the Senate rejected the Hickenlooper-Heinrich amendment by a vote of 48-51 (Senate roll call vote 181). YES IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE.
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