Date: February 12, 2019

Subject: Expanding Government Land Control through the Reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund

Description: This bill makes permanent the Land and Water Conservation Fund which allows more land-grabbing by the federal government. This fund is used to expand federal land holdings, which produces perverse results that harm private property rights through voracious landgrabs and restrictions on the extraction of mineral rights. Not to mention the National Park Service already has a $12 billion backlog to maintain existing landholdings. ACU believes the private sector and the states are best equipped to manage land, opposes further expanding federal land control -- especially considering the federal government already controls an astonishing and unsustainable 28% of the country's total land.

Result: Bill Passed, 92-8

Democrat: 45 Yeas, 0 Nays, 0 Not voting
Republican: 45 Yeas, 8 Nays, 0 Not voting
Independent: 2 Yeas, 0 Nays, 0 Not voting

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