rodgers, cm Rep
<p style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-family: Calibri, 'Gill Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The second installment of our “Bundy’s Buddies” series featured<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/green/news/2014/05/22/90206/bundys-buddies-the-15-members-of-congress-who-share-cliven-bundys-desire-to-seize-or-sell-off-americas-public-lands/" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">15 incumbent members of Congress</a>; we have now added Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rep. Raúl Labrador (R-ID), as well as one new congressional hopeful from Arizona’s 1st district, who will join the previously identified<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/green/news/2014/06/19/92305/4-candidates-who-just-won-their-partys-nomination-for-competitive-november-elections-and-want-to-sell-or-seize-public-lands/" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">candidates</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>on the ballot in November 2014.</p>
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<li style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">U.S. Sen. John McCain (R)</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/green/news/2014/05/22/90206/bundys-buddies-the-15-members-of-congress-who-share-cliven-bundys-desire-to-seize-or-sell-off-americas-public-lands/" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">introduced legislation</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>with Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) to sell off more than 3 million acres of public lands,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=c5dbc50a-a612-62b1-b9cc-84de5caa8fdd" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">aiming</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to “reduce the federal estate” and seeking to “dispose land that the federal government simply does not want.”</li>
<li style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">(R)</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>was a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr1126/text" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">champion and co-sponsor</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of Rep. Jason Chaffetz’s (R-UT) legislation, the Disposal of Excess Federal Lands Act, which intended to sell off more than 3 million acres of federal land.</li>
<li style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">U.S. Rep. Trent Franks (R)</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>was also a key<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.5339.IH:" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">champion and co-sponsor</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of Rep. Chaffetz’s legislation, which would have authorized the sale of more than 450,000 acres of land in Arizona.</li>
<li style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">State Rep. Andy Tobin (R)*</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is challenging U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (D) in Arizona’s 1st District and has<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/2012questionnaires/results.php?id=tobina" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">stated</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that he believes “Arizona is better capable to manage our lands than a bureaucrat from Washington DC.”</li>
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<li style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">U.S. Rep. Tom McClintock</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">(R)</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>was an original<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr1126/text" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">co-sponsor and champion</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of Rep. Chaffetz’s legislation to sell off more than 3 million acres of federal land to private interests.</li>
<li style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">U.S. Rep. Ken Calvert</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">(R)</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>was an original<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.5339.IH:" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">co-sponsor and champion</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of Rep. Chaffetz’s legislation to sell off more than 3 million acres of federal land to private interests.</li>
<li style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">(R)</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>was an original<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:H.R.5339.IH:" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">co-sponsor and champion</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of Rep. Chaffetz’s legislation to sell off more than 3 million acres of federal land to private interests.</li>
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<li style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">U.S. Rep. Ra</b><b style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">ú</b><b style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">l Labrador (R</b>)*<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://legislature.idaho.gov/sessioninfo/2013/interim/lands1028_taylor.pdf" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">submitted a letter</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>last year to the Idaho Legislature stating that he had “come to the conclusion that the federal management system is broken” and “if Congress is unable or unwilling to fix our broken public land management system, then perhaps the states should be given the opportunity to step into the void and be allowed to manage these precarious resources.” He also authored<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/1294" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">legislation</a>—the Self-Sufficient Community Lands Act—to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/2013/09/26/2781841/bill-holds-out-hope-to-restore.html" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">transfer about 200,000 acres</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of federal land to the state of Idaho.</li>
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<ul style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em 2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Calibri, 'Gill Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: square; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<li style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>is one of rancher Cliven Bundy’s strongest supporters,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/203677-paul-criticizes-feds-on-bundy#ixzz319KIpoyn" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">arguing that</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>“Nevada and local authorities should control the [public] land.”</li>
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<ul style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em 2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Calibri, 'Gill Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: square; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<li style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">U.S. Sen. Dean Heller</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">(R)</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/green/news/2014/05/22/90206/bundys-buddies-the-15-members-of-congress-who-share-cliven-bundys-desire-to-seize-or-sell-off-americas-public-lands/" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">supported</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Cliven Bundy during his standoff,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://pvtimes.com/news/heller-supports-takeover-public-lands.html" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">calling</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>it a “a pretty good example of why we might be better off if the state ran this property not the federal government.”</li>
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<li style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">(R)</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/10/09/964141/steve-pearce-public-lands/" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">committed</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to “[reversing] this trend of public ownership of lands” and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/green/news/2014/05/22/90206/bundys-buddies-the-15-members-of-congress-who-share-cliven-bundys-desire-to-seize-or-sell-off-americas-public-lands/" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">has encouraged</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>noncooperation with management rules in New Mexico national forests.</li>
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<li style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Clackamas County Commissioner Tootie Smith (R)</b>, who is challenging Rep. Kurt Schrader (D) in Oregon’s 5th Congressional District,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TootieSmithOregon/posts/506274056145377" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">continues to urge</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the federal government to “return all federal lands in Oregon back to the counties where they are located and let the people manage them.”</li>
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<ul style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em 2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Calibri, 'Gill Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: square; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<li style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R)*</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>recently<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/07/10/3458798/ted-cruz-auction-off-public-lands/" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">filed an amendment</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to the Bipartisan Sportsmen’s Act of 2014 that would prevent the federal government from owning more than 50 percent of any state’s land and would require the immediate sale or transfer of any excess land.</li>
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<ul style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1em 2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Calibri, 'Gill Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: square; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
<li style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">(R)</b>,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.utah.gov/governor/news_media/article.html?article=6847" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">who is</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>“fighting to turn federal lands in our state over to Utahns,” has also<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.utah.gov/governor/news_media/article.html?article=6847" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">described himself</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>as a “leader in the Sagebrush Rebellion.”</li>
<li style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">U.S. Sen. Mike Lee</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">(R)</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/green/news/2014/05/22/90206/bundys-buddies-the-15-members-of-congress-who-share-cliven-bundys-desire-to-seize-or-sell-off-americas-public-lands/" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">introduced legislation</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to sell off more than 3 million acres of federal lands to private interests. He also has<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.utah.gov/governor/news_media/article.html?article=6847" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">said</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that ownership of public lands is “as much about state sovereignty as it is about our state economy” and joined Utah Gov. Gary Herbert and the Utah delegation to “demand [the] transfer of public lands to Utah.”</li>
<li style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop (R)</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>is one of the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/green/news/2014/05/22/90206/bundys-buddies-the-15-members-of-congress-who-share-cliven-bundys-desire-to-seize-or-sell-off-americas-public-lands/" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">strongest congressional proponents</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of turning federal land over to the states. In May, Rep. Bishop<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.c-span.org/video/?319128-3/washington-journal-management-public-land&save" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">said</a>, “states have shown themselves to be far more qualified than the federal government has” and that “we should try and transpose as much land to the state control as is humanly possible.”</li>
<li style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">U.S. Rep. Chris Stewart</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">(R)</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>campaigned for Congress in 2012<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/House/Chris_Stewart_Energy+Oil.htm" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">on a platform</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>supporting the sell-off of public lands to private entities for energy development.</li>
<li style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">U.S. Rep. Jason Chaffetz</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">(R)</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr1126/text" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">authored</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>legislation to sell off more than 3 million acres of public lands to private interests.</li>
<li style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Former Mayor Mia Love</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">(R)</b>, who is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/58233068-90/campaign-candidate-democratic-district.html.csp" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">leading</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in the polls for Utah’s open 4th Congressional District seat, has clearly<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DteIZEI3J9E&feature=youtu.be&t=17m29s" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">stated</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that she supports the “return of Utah lands from the federal government back to the state of Utah.”</li>
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<li style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">(R)</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>was an original<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr1126/text" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">co-sponsor</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of Rep. Chaffetz’s legislation to sell off more than 3 million acres of public lands to private interests.</li>
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<p style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; font-family: Calibri, 'Gill Sans', Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><i style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Claire Moser is a Research and Advocacy Associate with the Public Lands Project at American Progress. <em style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Matt Lee-Ashley is a Senior Fellow and the Director of the Public Lands Project at American Progress.</em></i>
- New Bundy’s Buddies not previously identified in the Center for American Progress Action Fund’s<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.americanprogressaction.org/series/bundys-buddies/view/" style=" box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(153, 0, 0); text-decoration: none;">series</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>or on BundysBuddies.com.</p>