WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 -- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), applauded the inclusion of the Nuclear Fuel Security Act in this year's National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Senator Barrasso has worked with ENR chairman Manchin (D-WV), Senate Foreign Relations Committee ranking member J  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 -- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release on Dec. 13, 2023: Today, U.S. Senators John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) introduced bipartisan legislation to improve the routing of calls to the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline to local call centers. Currently, calls to the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline are routed to a call center based on a phone's area code. This process can result in a call center mismatch, as over 80 percent of the ca  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 -- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release on Dec. 13, 2023: U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo) spoke today on the Senate Floor about how America's wide-open Southern Border presents a national security risk that must be addressed in any national security bill that goes to President Biden's desk. Excerpts from Sen. Barrasso's remarks: "Last week, Senator Schumer put a national security bill on the floor. The problem is, it lacked serious border sec  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 -- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), delivered remarks at a committee business meeting to consider pending legislation. For more information on the business meeting and the agenda of legislation to be considered click here. Senator Barrasso's remarks: "  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 -- Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Arkansas, issued the following news release: Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), along with 17 of his colleagues, today introduced a resolution condemning the slogan, "From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free." The resolution also states that the slogan and its derivations are a call for the genocide of Jewish people and the destruction of the Jewish state. Co-sponsoring the resolution are Senators Bill Hagerty (R-Tennessee), John Barrasso (R-Wyo  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 -- Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release: The Wyoming Public Service Commission (WPSC) has made the decision to cut Rocky Mountain Power's (RMP) 22% proposed rate hike to 8.3% (A second, almost 8% hike has yet to be addressed), with the increase impacting nearly 150,000 customers. Following the decision by WPSC, Rep. Hageman stated "We have all heard the phrase, 'go woke, go broke' - unfortunately for Wyoming ratepayers, Rocky Mountain Power's wo  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 -- Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release on Dec. 13, 2023: Today, Rep. Hageman introduced the PLCAA Federal Jurisdiction Act which would strengthen the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act's (PLCAA) protections for the firearm industry against abusive litigation intended to undermine the Second Amendment. The bill amends the PLCAA to allow firearm industry defendants to remove a case against them to federal court to ensure a more consistent   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 -- Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release on Dec. 13, 2023: Today, Rep. Harriet Hageman voted in favor of H.R. 918, which directs the House Oversight Committee, House Judiciary Committee, and House Ways and Means Committee to continue their ongoing investigations into whether sufficient grounds exist for the House of Representatives to exercise its Constitutional power to impeach President Joe Biden. This resolution sets forth specific procedures   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 -- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release on Dec. 13, 2023: Today, in an op-ed for the Washington Examiner, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), outlined how the Biden administration has allowed China to manipulate international climate agreements to gain an unfair economic edge. Read the full op-ed here (h  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 -- Sen. Cynthia M. Lummis, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-- Today, U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) released the following statement on her vote to shield the people of Wyoming from being unconstitutionally spied on by the federal government after the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) included an extension to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) without reforms that would strengthen privacy rights. "I can  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 -- Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release: Rep. Harriet Hageman, along with 31 cosigners, sent a letter to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Erik Gerding demanding answers to several questions and an extension of the public comment period for their Natural Asset Companies (NAC) rule. On October 4, 2023, the SEC proposed a rule to approve the New York Stock Exchange's (NYSE) listing of NACs. This proposal is complex and based on a  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release: Congresswoman Harriet Hageman announced that she will be voting NO on an upcoming vote to pass the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). Hageman was chosen to be a conferee in negotiations between the House and Senate that was designed to work through differences between each chamber's version of the bill. Unfortunately, Rep. Hageman was not actually consulted on any of the areas within the jurisdict  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 -- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release: Today, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) convened a business meeting at which members approved multiple pieces of legislation. Among the bills approved were two introduced by ENR ranking member John Barrasso (R-WY). Those bills are S. 1662, the Pilot Butte Power Plant Conveyance Act, and S.1348, the Wyoming Public   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 -- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), sent a letter to Teri L. Donaldson, Inspector General of the Department of Energy (DOE), highlighting questions about inappropriate outside influence on the work of the Loan Programs Office (LPO) and its Director, Jigar Shah.   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), applauded the U.S. House of Representatives for passing by voice vote H.R.1042, companion legislation to S. 763, a bipartisan bill introduced by Barrasso to prohibit U.S. imports of Russian uranium. "The United States must ban   more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 -- Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, issued the following news release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. released the following statement after voting to confirm Captain Richard Federico to the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit which covers federal appeals from Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Captain Federico is a 2002 graduate of the University of Kansas School of Law who joined the U.S. Navy JAG Corps and was o  more