And that was over 5 years ago. What happened? I will tell ya what happened. Those deceitful SOBs in D.C. did nothing about it. We got lip services. They talk and do nothing.
I was only pointing out that it had been proposed many times before. Your statement said it hadn't.
But I can give you a partial reason why it didn't come to fruition before - People in each of those states where the land was proposed to have been sold off - - started fighting against it. seems many in those states liked the idea of the Federal government owning the land and keeping open spaces. They decided they didn't want it sold to active users.
that seems to be the main reason so many of these proposals haven't gone anywhere before.