WASHINGTON, June 5 -- Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release: Today, Congresswoman Harriet Hageman voted in favor of the Fiscal Year 2025 Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill. This bill will fully fund veterans' health care programs, veterans' benefits, and VA programs. It also prohibits the Biden Administration from using funds to advance critical race theory; implement executive orders on DEI, or use taxpayer dollars for  more

WASHINGTON, June 3 -- Sen. Cynthia M. Lummis, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senators Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Mike Lee (R-UT) and JD Vance (R-OH) sent a letter to Google LLC Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai detailing several concerning examples of the Gemini artificial intelligence model (Gemini) creating outputs that intentionally disregard publicly available information and historical facts to align with woke ideology. The senators laid out a series of questions  more

WASHINGTON, June 7 (Sen.) -- Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-New York, issued the following news release: CAH Status Provides Upstate Hospitals Like Wyoming County Community Health With Enhanced Reimbursement Rates, Which Will Bring In Millions In Critical Funding To Support Healthcare Services Schumer Has Been A Champion Of The CAH Program For Years And Successfully Saved The Program And Several Upstate New York Hospitals At Risk Of Losing Their CAH Status Last Year, Which Helpe  more

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, issued the following statement on June 4, 2024: * * * Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) issued the following statement slamming President Joe Biden's latest executive order on the border. "Joe Biden and the open-border Democrats are terrified that voters will hold them accountable for the crime, the drugs, and the terrorists that are flooding into the United States. "With the election only months away, the White House is panicked  more

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and U.S. Representative August Pfluger (R-Texas) recently led a bicameral letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) demanding the agency roll-back its ban on purchasing or deploying M-44 sodium cyanide ejector devices. M-44 devices are used by farmers and ranchers, mainly sheep and goat producers, for predator control. These devices are a valuable management too  more

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following statement on June 5, 2024: * * * U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), issued the following statement after introducing S. 4456, a bill to improve U.S. Forest Service (USFS) housing availability in gateway communities. "The U.S. Forest Service is facing a housing crisis. The lac  more

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following news release on June 4, 2024: Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), delivered remarks at a business meeting to consider nominations to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The business meeting considered the nominations of: * Mr. David Rosner to be a Member of  more

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- 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 the Department of Energy's (DOE) Inspector General, Teri Donaldson, highlighting concerns that the DOE's Loan Programs Office (LPO) is continuing to provide financial support to entities in which its Director, Ji  more

WASHINGTON, June 5 -- 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 Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Director Tracy Stone-Manning expressing serious concerns with the BLM's Greater Sage-Grouse Rangewide Planning Draft Resource Management Plan Amendment (Draft RMPA). The letter ca  more

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis, both R-Wyo., joined Senator James Lankford (R-Okla.) and their colleagues in introducing a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution of disapproval to overturn the Biden administration's final rule affecting rural nursing homes and long-term care facilities. The final rule imposes burdensome federal staffing mandates on long-term care facilities. The most harm  more

WASHINGTON, June 6 -- 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) and U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), member of ENR and chair of the Senate Committee on Finance, introduced the Operational Flexibility Grazing Management Program Act to support ranchers who rely upon federal lands to graze their li  more