Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee said Friday that lawmakers can no longer use a rule-busting law against Biden-era land use plans for the Grand Staircase Escalate National Monument
Lee, chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Rep. Celeste Maloy (R-Utah), introduced resolutions of disapproval in March under the Congressional Review Act, which allows Congress and the president to undo administration actions by simple majority within a certain time frame.
The resolutions of disapproval in the House and Senate would have repealed plans that govern recreation, grazing and mining and drilling on the southwestern Utah site.
Environmental and conservation advocates supporting the Biden plan said Lee ran out of time Thursday to call up the legislation. It’s unclear why Senate Republicans did not schedule a vote.
