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“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
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On the recordJune 14, 2023
To go out there and to create a mechanism such as a conservation lease that could be bought by third parties, not even necessarily by people in our own country, and give them access and authority over these lands, it is dangerous.
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Kristi Noem
Republican · South Dakota
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Noem expresses concern over foreign entities gaining control of U.S. lands.

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