Any budget resolution coming from Congress this year must include language that keeps governments at all levels from using the Land and Water Conservation Fund for land grabs, a top House Republican demanded Tuesday.

In a letter sent to Rep. Hal Rogers, chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop, R-Utah, made the case for governments to be banned from using eminent domain and condemnation as reasons for buying private property using money from the fund.