Senate vote public lands sale

[abbrown]

Well as of their midnight version last night there is still BLM land sale in there. And apparently they want to vote this afternoon. This should be interesting. Call people call.

 

[abbrown]

https://www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/the_one_big_beautiful_bill_act.pdf

Here’s a link to the entire budget bill proposal. The land sale component starts on page 202 out of 940. Worth a read. Call and email, tell them to get it out.

 

[Pacific_Fork]

Flood the lines!!! Someone post up the call directory again (I’m dumb can’t find the right one)

 

[Andrew12gauge]

SS is hardly an entitlement. When I retire in 5-6 years, I expect SS, not because I feel entitled, but because it's mine. The average life expectancy in the US among all gender and ethnicities is about 77 years, so retiring at 62 gives 15 years of life left for retirement. The average SS check fluctuates between $1800 and $2000. Over those 15 years, that's $360,000. Over a career of working and paying into SS, with no choice in the matter, I could have made a lot more than that with my money investing it myself. So yeah, I expect to at least get some return for my investment. To not expect.that would be foolish of me. That's not entitlement. It's business.

The average life expectancy takes into account everyone who dies young as well. If you’ve made it this far you’ve got a much better chance of going past 80


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[realunlucky]

Flood the lines!!! Someone post up the call directory again (I’m dumb can’t find the right one)

202-224-3121

Capital switchboard

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[abbrown]

Washington office phone numbers in order for:
Idaho Senator James Risch
Idaho Senator Mike Crapo
Montana Senator Tim Sheehy
Montana Senator Steve Daines
SD Senator (Majority Leader) John Thune

Risch appears to be holding. Can’t say about others

 

[brca005]

Here’s an awesome response I got from Ted Cruz…typical political response and I’m quite disappointed in the response but I’m also surprised I got a response at all.

I just keep contacting them over and over

 

[buckrut42]

How often do you all actually get an answer on the other end of the line? I've left probably 10 voicemails now and only once did a staffer answer.

 

[Jason Snyder]

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Should be a Byrd ruling in Mike Lees third version of this. Keep the phone lines ringing. Like syphilis, this just won’t go away.

 

[Pacific_Fork]

Is the final vote today, or?

 

[Jason Snyder]

Is the final vote today, or?

I think the parliamentarian has to rule first, and then a likely vote this weekend is what I’ve heard.

 

[ODB]

Got a letter back from Risch today. It was not as forceful as his Twitter post but glad it’s in the right direction.

 

[SIR_34:16]

Just sent a message to both of my state's senators.

 

[banded_drake]

Here’s an awesome response I got from Ted Cruz…typical political response and I’m quite disappointed in the response but I’m also surprised I got a response at all.

I just keep contacting them over and over
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I got the exact same response

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[Jason Snyder]

It sounds like the parliamentarian has accepted the third revision of Mike Lee’s amendment. Land disposal will be part of the reconciliation bill going to the floor for vote. Absolutely pound your senators, please! Even if you have already called, pound them again.

 

[Gila]

Montana is stepping up to the plate. Sen Sheehy refused to vote to proceed unless the Public lands sale provision is stripped out. He is leading an amendment to strip it out of the bill with co-sponsors SEn Daines and Sen Lindsey Graham

 

[Jason Snyder]

 

[Jason Snyder]

Probably a really good time to proactively contact your House Reps. Representative Zinke has promised to kill this. Please make sure he has support.

 

[cq0302]

I can't speak to the exact details of the bill, but it is pretty important and valid to note that there is more going on than just preserving hunting lands. Over 80% of Nevada is "owned" and controlled by the federal government, mostly BLM. Where this becomes a real and damaging problem is when Reno, Las Vegas, and a couple of other growing areas literally hit the edge of federal land and can't grow further. They are completely surrounded, like an island.

So housing gets vastly more expensive, and it becomes far more difficult for families.

Two identical houses in Texas and Nevada, in equally prosperous neighborhoods, could have a half-million dollar gap between their two prices. That's a reality. I don't want to be seeing chunks of wilderness sold to developers, but there's a lot of crap scrubland around Vegas and Reno that barely sustain jackrabbits. I'm 100% in favor of selling off limited runs of lands that border those cities once a decade or so, because to not do so really harms the quality of life of people living here.

There shouldn’t be houses in most of these areas anyway. There’s a reason it’s fed land, it was once uninhabitable before aqueducts were built. That’s a different topic though

 

[cq0302]

I wish we could trust elected officials enough to not think something nefarious is happening here