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Utah lands bill dead for now

The article fails to mention that the omnibus bill establishes a National Landscape Conservation System within the Bureau of Land Management, which creates the potential for further restrictions on natural resource development. This is the provision that the Oklahoma senator and rural counties would like to see removed. No problem with the remaining 1000+ pages of the bill.

too bad that bills have to become so large as to hide garbage instead of the garbage just being dumped on it's own.

The Federal Government needs to stay out of the State of Utah.

The story states that the Park City parcels were declared surplus back in 1975 - and Congress is just now getting around to doing something about it?

Fed. govt. staying out of Utah? Our only chance of being part of the real world, differing opinions, meeting people with real, new thoughts is to get and keep the federal government as close to us as possible. Otherwise, we would become a theocracy. We are close to one in Utah as it is, but without the outside fresh air of the federal government, we would be saluting religious leaders right and left.

We almost do that now... keep the feds as close as possible!!!

There are more non-LDS people in Utah than LDS. How is that a theocracy?

Well, for one, wine coolers are now essentially illegal in this state. It's a theocracy.

"The Federal Government needs to stay out of the State of Utah." Utah gets $1.28 back from the federal government for each dollar Utahans pay. You're whining. It's true, you give welfare and the people on the dole hold you in contempt. This is Utah. They get 3.2 billion for their Winter Games. Then they call it an economic success. LA took not federal dollar one and still make money on their Summer Games. Historically Summer Games cost more to put on.

It's bad enough carrying you but places get your spur out of our backs.

I say read the bill. Better yet, make the senators stay and listen while it is read. Then they might either eliminate the junk or some might surrender to old age, yielding fresh blood.

This failure of a bill that Bennett can't seem to pass, no matter how cozy he gets with Harry Reid is just another example (see Bennett's support of the Auto Industry bailout) of why he has served his last term in the US Senate from Utah.

Time for someone to "Chaffetz" this guy.