Nevada Democratic Reps. Dina Titus and Susie Lee testified Mark Amodei's amendment would hit taxpayers and divert water. Amodei calls them confused.

A bipartisan attempt to stop the federal government from selling hundreds of thousands of acres of public land in Nevada and Utah - including a 311-acre parcel that borders Zion National Park - succeeded in a final committee hearing before a sprawling budget bill went to the House of Representatives for a vote on Thursday morning.

Mark Amodei to sell hundreds of thousands of acres of federally owned land in Nevada and Utah to generate revenue for Republicans’ tax and spending bill was stripped out of the legislation by GOP leadership at the behest of Rep.