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Mike Lee @SenMikeLee
When ordinary Americans control their communities and land, it is good for both. When the federal government wields… https://t.co/w0fTkFdcVt — PolitiTweet.org
Mike Lee @SenMikeLee
We have the opportunity to honor the promise the federal government made to Utah and Western states when they joine… https://t.co/FW3iWWOOdV — PolitiTweet.org
Mike Lee @SenMikeLee
Small reforms here and there are important. But we have to start pushing for what we actually want. We must fight t… https://t.co/oDU7MQmmCu — PolitiTweet.org
Mike Lee @SenMikeLee
Finally, our long-term goal must be the transfer of federal lands to the states. And that is the aim of the third b… https://t.co/X7tqj3v47x — PolitiTweet.org
Mike Lee @SenMikeLee
This “new” Homestead Act would allow states, local governments, and individuals to petition the government to use f… https://t.co/mKgZiIAOKL — PolitiTweet.org
Mike Lee @SenMikeLee
The second bill I plan to introduce is a new Homestead Act – one to help ordinary Americans in the 21st century. #utpol #SIPublicLands — PolitiTweet.org
Mike Lee @SenMikeLee
Specifically, my bill would prohibit the president from designating or expanding a national monument in the state u… https://t.co/FZXYvA5GDb — PolitiTweet.org
Mike Lee @SenMikeLee
The first, the Protecting Utah’s Rural Communities Act, would protect Utah from future Antiquities Act abuses by gi… https://t.co/A4TCEQ3cuY — PolitiTweet.org
Mike Lee @SenMikeLee
Our immediate task is to rein in that government and reclaim a space for ordinary Americans to live in freedom. I a… https://t.co/H1a48JlKk5 — PolitiTweet.org
Mike Lee @SenMikeLee
Rural Americans want what all Americans want: a dignified, decent-paying job. A family to love and support. A healt… https://t.co/PSq7vTuUlq — PolitiTweet.org
Mike Lee @SenMikeLee
Locals aren’t as lucky. While tourism has contributed much to the West, communities can’t survive on it alone. It i… https://t.co/FxTPC5Bk1W — PolitiTweet.org
Mike Lee @SenMikeLee
They delight in seeing vast swathes of untouched lands, fulfilling their idyllic notions of the West where they can… https://t.co/RIzJaUgFFh — PolitiTweet.org
Mike Lee @SenMikeLee
Things have only gotten worse since. An even more extreme environmental movement, an alliance of privilege between… https://t.co/pPDffpsgQ6 — PolitiTweet.org
Mike Lee @SenMikeLee
No longer would it be the official policy of the United States government to sell back the land and entrust it to t… https://t.co/SfzgBNbHYT — PolitiTweet.org
Mike Lee @SenMikeLee
And in 1976, Congress formalized federal control over federal lands by passing the Federal Land Policy and Manageme… https://t.co/QfYo33Ml8o — PolitiTweet.org
Mike Lee @SenMikeLee
The amount of grazing on federal land went into steep decline, causing an exodus from the range that was never reve… https://t.co/b33Udf5pFF — PolitiTweet.org
Mike Lee @SenMikeLee
Between the mid-1960s and 1980, the amount of wilderness rose from 11.5 million acres to 82.7 million acres—an incr… https://t.co/STEGJeaNAf — PolitiTweet.org
Mike Lee @SenMikeLee
The activists used land-use restrictions as an “all-purpose tool for stopping economic activity,” in the words of p… https://t.co/upnJTp1uuk — PolitiTweet.org
Mike Lee @SenMikeLee
But in the 60s and 70s environmental activists began exploiting public fears about overpopulation and pollution. #utpol #SIPublicLands — PolitiTweet.org
Mike Lee @SenMikeLee
The first westerners were optimistic about federal control of western lands. Teddy Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot ad… https://t.co/FX3xvKXrpG — PolitiTweet.org
Mike Lee @SenMikeLee
Fifty, sixty, even seventy percent of the land within Western states’ boundaries was – and remains – controlled by… https://t.co/4l8b33qnWU — PolitiTweet.org
Mike Lee @SenMikeLee
While they were ultimately successful in petitioning Congress to transfer their public lands from federal to state… https://t.co/Kbn5XTCkda — PolitiTweet.org
Mike Lee @SenMikeLee
Take Illinois and Missouri, for example. At one point, the federal government controlled more than 90% of their land. #utpol #SIPublicLands — PolitiTweet.org
Mike Lee @SenMikeLee
The promise to sell federal lands in Utah is right there, enshrined in federal law. But, unlike states farther East… https://t.co/CNjf6IAuZz — PolitiTweet.org
Mike Lee @SenMikeLee
When Utah came into the Union in 1896, Section 9 of its statehood enabling legislation declared that public land lo… https://t.co/gPOxvU4inb — PolitiTweet.org
Mike Lee @SenMikeLee
While Easterners and Midwesterners had almost-total control of the land within their boundaries, Western states lik… https://t.co/Ta1FhMbEcK — PolitiTweet.org
Mike Lee @SenMikeLee
But by the time Utah and other states entered the Union, Congress had turned its attention elsewhere. Manifest dest… https://t.co/6oCWuS5mMQ — PolitiTweet.org
Mike Lee @SenMikeLee
The Homestead Acts were an engine for middle-class opportunity and growth and set the American standard for the dis… https://t.co/ek3iyQStyO — PolitiTweet.org
Mike Lee @SenMikeLee
The cornerstone of this policy was the Homestead Acts which transferred 270 million acres of land out of federal co… https://t.co/rLMmSKvo25 — PolitiTweet.org
Mike Lee @SenMikeLee
Throughout the 19th century, Lawmakers sought to facilitate expansion of the nation by acquiring land—and then tran… https://t.co/1CmKFeicFK — PolitiTweet.org
