WASHINGTON, May 11 -- Sen. Ron Wyden issued the following press release:
Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden today announced they introduced the Public Lands Integrity Act, new legislation to ensure that America's public lands cannot be sold as part of a fast-tracked process in a budget reconciliation bill.
During consideration of the Republicans' "Big, Ugly Betrayal" budget reconciliation bill that passed in July 2025 on a party-line simple majority vote, Senate Republicans nearly passed a provision to sell one to three million acres of federal public lands to generate revenue all to fund Republicans' tax cuts for billionaires. Merkley and Wyden worked to build strong bipartisan opposition alongside lawmakers, states, count...