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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 recordApril 18, 2023
My district is not only rural, half of it is classified as frontier. Now layer over top of that that the vast majority of it, 90 percent of the land, is owned by the Federal Government.
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John Curtis
Republican · Utah
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Curtis highlights the challenges of federal land ownership in his rural district.

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