On Wednesday, House Republicans voted to adopt — and passed — a resolution in their budget reconciliation package to allow for the sale of public lands in Nevada and Utah for housing and fossil fuel production, The Hill reported.

“Nevada population centers are all encumbered by federal land that can’t meet their housing and development needs without disposal of federal lands. Unlike most other states, Nevadans rely on Congress to make these lands available,” Republican Rep. Mark Amodei of Nevada said during a House Natural Resources Committee meeting.

Republican Rep. Celeste Maloy of Utah, who joined Amodei to boost fossil fuel production on federal land, said that the land’s status also made it harder to address housing demand in her state. She urged the Natural Resources Committee to vote in favor of selling the land.

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