Sen. Mike Lee, who chairs the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, included a mandate for the sales in a draft provision of the GOP’s sweeping tax cut package released Wednesday.

A Republican-sponsored proposal before Congress to mandate the sale of federal public lands is getting a mixed reception from ...

When a GOP senator proposed using federal land for affordable housing, right-wing forces revolted to protect what they see as ...

Lee introduced a now-removed amendment to Trump’s policy megabill that mandated the sale of up to 3 million acres. It did ...

Once a rallying cry, now a reality. A controversial proposal to require the sale of a fraction of a percent of federally owned public lands isn’t moving forward. U.S. Sen. Mike Lee, a Utah Republican ...

Senator Mike Lee retracts a proposal to sell 3.3 million acres of federal land due to backlash and budget constraints.

The provision would have forced the sale of thousands of acres of federal public land across Arizona and other Western states ...

Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee withdrew his controversial federal land sale provision from the “big beautiful” tax bill after ...

Efforts to sell public lands fail, but lawmakers and advocates remain concerned about the environmental impact of the “big ...

People shouldn’t expect to see a plan to sell federal public lands brought back to Congress anytime soon, says Rob Wallace, ...

A mandate to sell somewhere between 2 and 3 million acres across the western U.S. was first struck down by the Senate ...