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Concurrent Resolution on the Budget, Fiscal Year 2016

Floor Speech

Date: March 26, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Arts, Entertainment, and History Environment

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Mr. HEINRICH. Mr. President, Americans have always had a deep
connection to the outdoors. In New Mexico, families go back year after
year to fish in the Santa Barbara River, to the Santa Fe National
Forest to hunt, and to the Gila National Forest.

Our public lands are part of our American heritage. We cherish
passing that tradition on to our children and to our grandchildren. Yet
this amendment would make it easier to turn our public lands over to
State land commissioners and eventually to sell them outright.

Make no mistake. This amendment will mean more locked gates and more
``no trespassing'' signs in places that families have used for generation.

Colleagues, this land is your land. I urge Senators to vote no on
this amendment.

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