WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release: House GOP Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), joined House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), and Natural Resources Committee Ranking Republican Rob Bishop (R-Ut.) to introduce The American Energy First Act, an all-of-the-above American energy reform bill. This legislation will expand domestic energy production on federal lands, streamline the federal permitting process, create well-paying jobs for Amer  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 -- Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, issued the following remarks: Today during the House Republican leadership press conference, Wyoming Congresswoman and House GOP Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) called out House Democrats for shirking their constitutional responsibilities by continuing to pursue baseless impeachment of the President. Click here to watch her full remarks and see an excerpt of the transcript below: "What we have all seen is a terribly radical, dangerous agen  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 -- Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release: Wyoming Congresswoman and House GOP Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) sat down in-studio with Bret Baier on Fox News' "Special Report" this evening to discuss President Trump's decision to call of negotiations with the Taliban. Click here to watch the full interview (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjYemcSb-B4&feature=youtu.be) and see an excerpt of the transcript below: BRET BAIER: Let's talk about the issu  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- Rep. Fred Keller, R-Pennsylvania, issued the following news release: * * * - Melinda "Mindy" Gene Piccotti was an Air Force veteran and community leader * * * Congressman Fred Keller Wednesday announced he has introduced H.R. 4279 to name the Post Office in Laceyville, Wyoming County after Melinda "Mindy" Gene Piccotti, an Air Force veteran and community leader who founded Hunts for Healing. Started in 2009, Hunts for Healing aims to help wounded soldiers returning f  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) asked Aurelia Skipwith, nominee to be director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, about key priorities for Wyoming. Barrasso asked Skipworth about the importance of delisting recovered species such as the gray wolf and the grizzly bear and prioritizing the Wildlife Innovation and Longevity Driver (WI  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following remarks at a hearing entitled "Hearing on the Nominations of Aurelia Skipwith to be Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Katherine Lemos to be Member and Chairperson of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board": The hearing featured testimony from Aurelia Skipwith, nominee to be director for the Fish and Wildlife Service, and Katherin  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, issued the following floor remarks about how a what he calls a government-run health care plan will cost the America taxpayers $32 trillion dollar and take health insurance away from 180 million American who get their health insurance through work: "I want to turn to the topic of the overall health care debate that we are having in this country. For the past several weeks, I have been home in Wyoming, and I listened to the people I am so p  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, issued the following statement on the 18th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks: "We pause today to remember the nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives on September 11, 2001, when al-Qaeda terrorists turned commercial airplanes into weapons of mass destruction. "We pray for all the 9/11 victims and their families. We will forever honor our 9/11 heroes - the bright lights of th  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement on the announcement of the Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ending the Obama-era Waters of the U.S. rule: Barrasso is chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), which has jurisdiction over the EPA and the Corps. "The WOTUS rule would have put backyard ponds, puddles, and prairie pothole  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 -- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, issued the following op-ed on healthcare policies, which was provided to the Washington Examiner: American healthcare is known for two things: high quality and high costs. When people in Wyoming and across the country talk with me about their healthcare, they don't complain about the quality, but about how much they have to pay. The government estimates that by 2027 health spefnding will consume one out of every five dollars in people's po  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 -- Sen. Michael B. Enzi, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., is accepting applications for nominations to the U.S. military service academies for the 2020-21 school year. Every year, Enzi gives Wyoming youth considering military careers the opportunity to apply for a nomination to the Air Force Academy, the Merchant Marine Academy, the Military Academy at West Point and the Naval Academy. "Military service academies provide excepti  more

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 -- Sen. Michael B. Enzi, R-Wyoming, issued the following statement, which was published in the Congressional Record on Sept. 9, enforcing budgetary levels for fiscal 2020: The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019, PL 16-37, included an instruction to the chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget to file allocations, aggregates, and budgetary levels in the Senate as soon as practicable. Today, I rise to submit the required filing found in that act. Specifically, sections 204   more