Congressional Public Lands Score by More Than Just Parks

Katie Britt

Republican · U.S. Senate · Alabama

Ranked #54 (tied) of 98 scored

Scored under 60%.

Sen. Katie Britt, a Republican from Alabama, earns an F on the Congressional Public Lands Score. Of the 19 scored Senate votes, Britt cast 0 for public lands and 19 against. The two closest: Yea on One Big Beautiful Bill (H.R.1), 50 to 50, and Yea on Overturning Boundary Waters Mining Ban (H.J.Res.140), 50 to 49. Britt's seat is not on the 2026 ballot.

Every scored vote: 19 of 19 U.S. Senate votes counted

Anti-lands
Lilly Fish and Wildlife and Parks (En Bloc) S.Res.817
En bloc confirmation of 74 nominees under S.Res.817, including Kevin Lilly as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, the official overseeing the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Lilly, a Texas wealth manager, drew formal opposition from the National Parks Conservation Association, and senators from both parties questioned his lack of land management experience. Confirmed 51-47. Senators who voted Yea confirmed every nominee in the package.
Voted Yea · August 7, 2026 · Roll call 225, 51 to 47
Anti-lands
Pearce BLM Director (En Bloc) S.Res.690
En bloc confirmation of 49 nominees under S.Res.690, including Stevan Pearce as Director of the Bureau of Land Management, the agency managing 245 million acres of public land. As a congressman, Pearce repeatedly backed transferring or selling federal public land. Confirmed 46-43. Senators who voted Yea confirmed every nominee in the package.
Voted Yea · May 18, 2026 · Roll call 125, 46 to 43
Anti-lands
Overturning Boundary Waters Mining Ban H.J.Res.140
CRA resolution overturning the 20-year mining ban on 225,000 acres of the Superior National Forest upstream of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, the most visited wilderness in America. Became Public Law 119-85.
Voted Yea · April 16, 2026 · Roll call 84, 50 to 49
Anti-lands
Opening Arctic Refuge to Drilling H.J.Res.131
CRA resolution overturning the 2024 environmental protections for oil and gas leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain, stripping safeguards from the 1.56-million-acre coastal plain calving grounds of the Porcupine caribou herd
Voted Yea · December 4, 2025 · Roll call 632, 49 to 45
Anti-lands
Overturning Powder River Basin Coal Protections (WY) H.J.Res.130
CRA resolution nullifying the Bureau of Land Management's 2024 Buffalo Field Office resource management plan amendment in Wyoming, which made approximately 413,000 acres of federal coal unavailable for future leasing in the Powder River Basin.
Voted Yea · November 20, 2025 · Roll call 623, 51 to 43
Anti-lands
Opening Western Arctic to Drilling S.J.Res.80
CRA resolution nullifying the 2022 management plan for the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, which had closed about half of the 23-million-acre Western Arctic reserve to new oil and gas leasing
Voted Yea · October 30, 2025 · Roll call 599, 52 to 45
Anti-lands
Overturning Central Yukon Protections (AK) H.J.Res.106
CRA resolution nullifying the Bureau of Land Management's Central Yukon resource management plan in Alaska, which designated 21 areas of critical environmental concern covering approximately 3.6 million acres. The resolution removed a land-plan barrier to the Ambler Road, which would cross Gates of the Arctic National Preserve; the administration had restored the road's federal permits three days earlier. Became Public Law 119-50.
Voted Yea · October 9, 2025 · Roll call 560, 50 to 46
Anti-lands
Overturning Miles City BLM Protections (MT) H.J.Res.104
CRA resolution rolling back Bureau of Land Management resource management plans for the Miles City Field Office in Montana, opening public lands to expanded industrial use
Voted Yea · October 8, 2025 · Roll call 549, 52 to 47
Anti-lands
Overturning North Dakota BLM Protections H.J.Res.105
CRA resolution rolling back Bureau of Land Management resource management plans for the North Dakota Field Office, removing protections from public lands across the state
Voted Yea · October 8, 2025 · Roll call 556, 50 to 45
Anti-lands
Boren USDA Under Secretary (En Bloc) S.Res.412
En bloc confirmation of 108 nominees under S.Res.412, including Michael Boren as USDA Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, the official directly overseeing the U.S. Forest Service. Confirmed 51-47. Senators who voted Yea confirmed every nominee in the package.
Voted Yea · October 7, 2025 · Roll call 547, 51 to 47
Anti-lands
Nesvik USFWS Director PN25-35
Confirmed Brian Nesvik as Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the agency responsible for endangered species protections and the National Wildlife Refuge System
Voted Yea · August 1, 2025 · Roll call 470, 54 to 43
Anti-lands
One Big Beautiful Bill H.R.1
Reconciliation bill mandating four Arctic Refuge Coastal Plain lease sales, five National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska lease sales, a four-million-acre coal leasing mandate, coal royalty rate cuts from 12.5% to 7%, a 250-million-board-foot yearly increase in national forest timber sales through 2034, and rescinding Inflation Reduction Act conservation funding
Voted Yea · July 1, 2025 · Roll call 372, 50 to 50
Anti-lands
Vaden Deputy Agriculture PN12-43
Confirmed Stephen Vaden as Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, second in command of the department that houses the U.S. Forest Service
Voted Yea · June 10, 2025 · Roll call 301, 51 to 44
Anti-lands
MacGregor Deputy Interior PN13-10
Confirmed Katharine MacGregor as Deputy Secretary of the Interior, the department's chief operating officer, who led first-term efforts to shrink national monuments and expand drilling on public lands
Voted Yea · May 14, 2025 · Roll call 250, 54 to 40
Anti-lands
Overturning Glen Canyon Safeguards H.J.Res.60
CRA resolution overturning the National Park Service rule limiting off-road vehicle use in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, reopening those routes to motorized use
Voted Yea · May 8, 2025 · Roll call 239, 50 to 43
Anti-lands
Preventing Public Lands Sell-Off S.Amdt.2107
Budget resolution amendment (H.Con.Res.14) to bar the use of proceeds from selling federal public land for deficit reduction, the Senate's recorded vote on public land sales ahead of the reconciliation bill
Voted Nay · April 5, 2025 · Roll call 181, 48 to 51
Anti-lands
Reinstating Fired Land Managers S.Amdt.540
Budget resolution amendment (S.Con.Res.7) creating a reserve fund to reinstate the federal employees fired from the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and U.S. Forest Service
Voted Nay · February 20, 2025 · Roll call 68, 48 to 52
Anti-lands
Rollins Agriculture Confirmation PN11-12
Confirmed Brooke Rollins as Secretary of Agriculture, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service and 193 million acres of national forests and grasslands
Voted Yea · February 13, 2025 · Roll call 53, 72 to 28
Anti-lands
Burgum Confirmation PN11-3
Confirmed Doug Burgum as Secretary of the Interior, who oversees the Bureau of Land Management, the National Park Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, despite his stated agenda to expand oil and gas extraction on public land
Voted Yea · January 30, 2025 · Roll call 26, 80 to 17

Roll calls and tallies from senate.gov, read October 26, 2026. Which side counts as pro-lands is the scorecard's call on each vote (methodology). Provision ratings: none of these bills has an approved rating yet, so none is named here.

Call Senator Britt through the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121.

Open the full record in the scorecard

Public lands bills Britt sponsors or cosponsors

In the 119th Congress, Britt sponsors 0 and cosponsors 2 public lands bills.

S.2860 Revitalizing America’s Offshore Critical Minerals Dominance Act
Original cosponsor · Signed on September 18, 2025 · Not yet rated
S.J.Res.12 A resolution to overturn the Waste Emissions Charge for Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems: Procedures for Facilitating Compliance, Including Netting and Exemptions
Original cosponsor · Signed on February 4, 2025 · Not yet rated

Bills and cosponsors from the congress.gov API, read September 7, 2026. A bill is rated only when a named person approves a rating that quotes its provision; none of these has one yet.

Britt's committees

Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Senate Committee on Appropriations
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies; Department of Homeland Security (Chairman); Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies; Energy and Water Development; State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs; Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection; Housing, Transportation, and Community Development (Chairman); Securities, Insurance, and Investment
Senate Committee on Rules and Administration
Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights; Border Security and Immigration; Crime and Counterterrorism; Intellectual Property

Committee seats from unitedstates/congress-legislators, read July 3, 2026.

Public lands in Alabama

83 federal land units lie in or reach into Alabama.

Listed by size; the largest 40 of 83 are named.

Talladega National Forest 394,709 acres
William B. Bankhead National Forest 182,015 acres
Conecuh National Forest 85,123 acres
Fort Novosel AL 58,126 acres
Redstone Arsenal 38,180 acres
Guntersville Reservoir Retained Land Tennessee Valley Authority · 25,886 acres
Sipsey Wilderness 25,851 acres
National Guard Clarke Range Complex - Fort McClellan 22,225 acres
Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge 18,852 acres
Wheeler Reservoir Retained Land Tennessee Valley Authority · 16,536 acres
Jackson County Waterfowl Area And Refuge 16,198 acres
Anniston Army Depot Defense Department · 15,578 acres
Millers Ferry Lock Recreation Area 15,105 acres
Fort Benning 12,285 acres
Tuskegee National Forest 11,347 acres
Little River Canyon National Preserve 11,193 acres
Sipsey Fork West Fork, Alabama Wild and Scenic River 10,299 acres
Mountain Longleaf National Wildlife Refuge 9,014 acres
Dugger Mountain Wilderness 8,947 acres
Pickwick Reservoir Retained Land Tennessee Valley Authority · 8,930 acres
Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge 8,383 acres
William Dannelly Reservoir Army Corps of Engineers · 8,255 acres
Cheaha Wilderness 7,400 acres
Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge 6,860 acres
Claiborne Recreation Area 6,816 acres
Oakey Mountain Roadless Area 6,129 acres
Blue Mountain Roadless Area 4,986 acres
Lauderdale Wildlife Management Area 4,594 acres
Natchez Trace Parkway 4,118 acres
Swan Creek Wildlife Management Area 3,856 acres
Upper Bear Creek Reservoir Retained Land Tennessee Valley Authority · 3,216 acres
Seven-mile Island Wildlife Management Area 3,204 acres
Escambia Experimental Forest 3,007 acres
Grand Bay National Wildlife Refuge 2,727 acres
Cedar Creek Reservoir Retained Land Tennessee Valley Authority · 2,716 acres
West Point Lake Army Corps of Engineers · 2,551 acres
Bear Creek Reservoir Retained Land Tennessee Valley Authority · 2,327 acres
Maxwell Air Force Base 2,240 acres
Horseshoe Bend National Military Park 2,079 acres
R. E. Bob Woodruff Lake Army Corps of Engineers · 1,932 acres

Fires burning on public land in Alabama

Hollis Head Road Fire 161 acres, 90% contained, updated October 22, 2026

Drilling, mining and logging on record in Alabama: 28 timber sales (625 acres); 12 oil and gas leases (2,066 acres).

None of the places on the threatened public lands map is in Alabama.

Federal land units from PAD-US, matched to the state's districts in the More Than Just Parks record, refreshed October 21, 2026; acres are each unit's full size, and units overlap, so they are not added up. Easements on private land are left out. Fires from NIFC; mining claims, leases and timber sales from BLM and Forest Service records; read October 26, 2026.

Who funds Britt on lands issues

PACs and other committees gave Britt's campaign $496,800 in the 2025-26 cycle. Across the 3 cycles on record, oil, gas, mining and timber PACs gave $79,000, and conservation PACs gave nothing.

Cycle	All PACs and committees	Oil and gas	Mining and coal	Timber	Conservation
2021-22	$2,036,432	$37,500	$2,500	$17,000	none
2023-24	$876,600	$10,000	none	$6,000	none
2025-26	$496,800	$2,000	-$2,500	$6,500	none

Itemized contributions from committees to the candidate (FEC S2AL00145), net of refunds, read October 26, 2026. Industry is the giving PAC's industry in the More Than Just Parks record. A contribution says who gave, not why anyone voted as they did.

How Britt compares

The median senator scores 5%. Britt scores 0% and ranks #54 (tied) of 98.

More from Alabama

Sen. Tommy Tuberville F · Rep. Barry Moore F · Rep. Shomari Figures A+ · Rep. Mike Rogers F · Rep. Robert Aderholt F · Rep. Dale Strong F · Rep. Gary Palmer F · Rep. Terri Sewell A

What to ask Britt

Washington office: 416 Russell Senate Office Building. Phone (202) 224-5744. Write to Britt · Official site

From Britt's own record:

Why did you vote Yea on Lilly Fish and Wildlife and Parks (En Bloc) (S.Res.817)?
Why did you vote Yea on Pearce BLM Director (En Bloc) (S.Res.690)?
Why did you vote Yea on Overturning Boundary Waters Mining Ban (H.J.Res.140)?
Why did you vote Yea on Opening Arctic Refuge to Drilling (H.J.Res.131)?
Why did you vote Yea on Overturning Powder River Basin Coal Protections (WY) (H.J.Res.130)?
Why did you vote Yea on Opening Western Arctic to Drilling (S.J.Res.80)?
Why did you vote Yea on Overturning Central Yukon Protections (AK) (H.J.Res.106)?
Why did you vote Yea on Overturning Miles City BLM Protections (MT) (H.J.Res.104)?
Why did you vote Yea on Overturning North Dakota BLM Protections (H.J.Res.105)?
Why did you vote Yea on Boren USDA Under Secretary (En Bloc) (S.Res.412)?
Why did you vote Yea on Nesvik USFWS Director (PN25-35)?
Why did you vote Yea on One Big Beautiful Bill (H.R.1)?
Why did you vote Yea on Vaden Deputy Agriculture (PN12-43)?
Why did you vote Yea on MacGregor Deputy Interior (PN13-10)?
Why did you vote Yea on Overturning Glen Canyon Safeguards (H.J.Res.60)?
Why did you vote Nay on Preventing Public Lands Sell-Off (S.Amdt.2107)?
Why did you vote Nay on Reinstating Fired Land Managers (S.Amdt.540)?
Why did you vote Yea on Rollins Agriculture Confirmation (PN11-12)?
Why did you vote Yea on Burgum Confirmation (PN11-3)?

Offices and phones from the Senate and House member feeds and unitedstates/congress-legislators, checked October 22, 2026.

Questions people ask

How did Katie Britt vote on One Big Beautiful Bill?

Katie Britt voted Yea on One Big Beautiful Bill (H.R.1) on July 1, 2025. The Senate vote was 50 to 50, and the scorecard counts Nay as the vote for public lands.

Is Katie Britt up for election in 2026?

No. Katie Britt's Senate seat from Alabama is not on the 2026 ballot. Britt's grade on the 19 scored Senate votes so far is an F.

What public lands are in Alabama?

83 federal land units lie in or reach into Alabama. The largest are Talladega National Forest (394,709 acres), William B. Bankhead National Forest (182,015 acres) and Conecuh National Forest (85,123 acres).