Kevin Cramer: “The Bureau of Land Management is required by law to create…”

“It's really big news because it goes all the way Back to the 1996 Contract with America and the Congressional Review act, which gave Congress a little more authority to overturn bad rules. What's significant about this rule was … The Bureau of Land Management is required by law to create resource management plans for federal lands. … particular, they took a bunch of federal lands and took them out of the possibility of production of resources like oil, gas, coal.” (00:45–00:53)

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