Natural Resources Management Act--Motion to Proceed

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Ms. MURKOWSKI. Madam President, this next vote is one to invoke cloture on the motion to proceed to S. 47. This is the Natural Resources Management Act. This is our long-talked-about bipartisan lands package.

We have a measure in front of us that is composed of over 100 smaller lands, resources, and water bills. We have included priorities from up to 50 Senators here in this body; 90 of you have cosponsored.

We reauthorized the Land and Water Conservation Fund. We addressed sportsmen's priorities. We have a wide range of land exchanges and conveyances and boundary modifications, water provisions. It creates new economic opportunities and improves the management of our Federal lands.

We will be talking more about this in the next couple of days, but I encourage all Members to support us on this very, very important lands package.

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