Interior gets a seat at the foreign investment table for U.S. lands
H.R. 7074 — Keeping Public Lands Out of Adversarial Hands Act · Filed by Dan Newhouse (R-WA) · 13 cosponsors · Introduced Jan 14, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
This bill adds the Secretary of the Interior to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) when reviewing foreign land acquisitions, and requires the committee to evaluate whether purchases of U.S. land or resources by citizens or entities from China, North Korea, Russia, or Iran pose national security risks. The provision sunsets when those countries are removed from the federal list of foreign adversaries.
Why we flagged it
The bill's operative mechanism is straightforward: it expands CFIUS membership and triggers review of foreign land acquisitions by adversarial nations. This is a governance and national security measure, not a tax, subsidy, or deregulation.
What the text implies
- The bill does not define 'land or resources' with precision, potentially creating ambiguity about what transactions trigger Interior Secretary notification and CFIUS review.
- The sunset clause ties termination to removal from the foreign adversaries list (15 CFR 791.4), meaning the provision persists indefinitely unless that regulatory list is formally amended.
The full analysis lists 4 implications of this text.
Who it affects
The bill strengthens oversight of foreign acquisition of sensitive U.S. land and natural resources by adding expertise from the Interior Department, which manages vast federal holdings.