WASHINGTON, March 17 -- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) led 21 of his colleagues in sending a letter to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen condemning the Biden administration's latest attempt to weaponize the tax code against U.S. energy producers. The letter is in response to President Biden's budget request for Fiscal Year 2024. Specifically, the letter focuses on the $100 billion in targeted tax increases on energ  more

CASPER, Wyoming, March 15 -- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, issued the following statement on March 14, 2023: * * * U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, today issued a statement after the February 2023 Consumer Price Index (CPI) revealed inflation has risen 15.01% since Biden took office. "President Biden's reckless spending and far-left priorities have created an inflation disaster. Americans are dipping into their savings just to pay for gas and  more

WASHINGTON, March 16 -- Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch and Representatives Mike Simpson and Russ Fulcher (all R-Idaho), with Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyoming) and Representative Doug LaMalfa (R-California), introduced the Forest Protection and Wildland Firefighter Safety Act of 2023. The legislation was introduced in both chambers of Congress and would create a Clean Water Act exemption for federal, state, local and tribal fi  more

WASHINGTON, March 16 -- Sen. Cynthia M. Lummis, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release on March 15, 2023: Citing concerns over the ability of small communities in Wyoming to comply, U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) released the following statement today after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its maximum contaminant level for PFAS in drinking water. The EPA announcement sets the maximum contaminant level (MCL) for two of the best-studied and most prevalent per - and po  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- Sen. Cynthia M. Lummis, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) highlighted bureaucratic backlogs causing significant headaches for small communities in Wyoming during an Environment and Public Works (EPW) committee hearing on the implementation of the Drinking Water and Wasterwater Infrastructure Act. Lummis questioned US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Water Assistant Administrator Radhika Fox about these delays   more

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- Sen. Cynthia M. Lummis, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Mike Braun (R-IN), Kevin Cramer (R-ND) and Mike Rounds (R-SD) reintroduced the Sustainable Budget Act, tasking a bipartisan commission to create a plan to address our unsustainable national debt and present ways to balance our budget. "We are on an unsustainable path, plain and simple. Congress has spent trillions of dollars in the last two years with no plan to pa  more

WASHINGTON, March 15 -- Sen. Cynthia M. Lummis, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release: Senate Western Caucus Chair Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) along with Senators Mike Crapo (R-ID), Jim Risch (R-ID), Steve Daines (R-MT) and Dan Sullivan (R-AK) introduced the Forest Protection and Wildland Firefighter Safety Act of 2023. This legislation protects firefighters, communities and property in Wyoming and throughout the west from the devastating impacts of wildfires by creating a Clean Water Act exem  more

WASHINGTON, March 16 -- Sen. Cynthia M. Lummis, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Sens. John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis and Rep. Harriet Hageman, all R-Wyo., sent a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Forest Service Chief Randy Moore criticizing their agencies for failing to protect Wyoming from the increased threat of catastrophic wildfire. In the letter, the delegation notes how Wyoming is the only western state to be om  more

WASHINGTON, March 16 -- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Sens. John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis and Rep. Harriet Hageman, all R-Wyo., sent a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Forest Service Chief Randy Moore criticizing their agencies for failing to protect Wyoming from the increased threat of catastrophic wildfire. In the letter, the delegation notes how Wyoming is the only western state to be omitte  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- Sen. Cynthia M. Lummis, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release and letter: U.S. Senators John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis and Rep. Harriet Hageman, all R-Wyo., sent a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack requesting that he accommodate Wyoming ranchers, who are busy with calving season, by extending the comment period by 30 days for a new rule titled, "Use of Electronic Identification Eartags as Official Identification in Cattle and   more