He wants the Bureau of Land Management to stop planning until every historic road claim is settled in court. Utah filed those claims in 2011 and 2012. Not one has been decided since.
You have been able to carry a gun in a national park since 2010. The one thing still off-limits is inside the visitor center and the ranger station. Yakym's Federal Lands Lawful Carry Act would end that — endorsed by the NRA, Gun Owners of America and the Second Amendment Foundation.
Visitation rose as much as 45% in March. May brought gridlock. Two senators asked Interior to bring the system back. McClintock's answer in June: people complaining about crowds just don't want 'those pesky other people' in the park.
For nearly two decades, a line buried in the farm bill has stopped the USDA from giving Fort Reno back to the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes. The 2026 version from Frank Lucas's committee deletes the expiration date.
Three Gosar bills, three titles that say the opposite of what the text does: two "Protection Acts" that abolish national monuments, and an animal-safety act that strips Endangered Species Act protection from a wolf with 319 left in the wild.
His LASSO Act would tie Social Security's funding to how hard we extract from federal land. A conservative budget analyst checked his math and found he'd understated the shortfall by half — and that his bill covers 1.5% of it.
Conservation groups call H.R. 1897 the 'Extinction Act.' Westerman calls it 'restoring' the law. It would bar courts from reviewing decisions to strip a species of protection during the monitoring period that follows — and rename the Endangered Species Act.
A new investigation found Trump stripped protection from more land than every other president in history combined — five times over. Three of Utah's House Republicans signed a statement saying the land was still protected.
Eight days into Trump's second term, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna filed a bill to add his face to Mount Rushmore. Eighteen months later it has zero cosponsors, zero action, and the engineer who monitored the mountain's rock says it was never physically possible.