WASHINGTON, March 5 -- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following letter: U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) and Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Mike Braun (R-IN), Mike Rounds (R-SD), John Boozman (R-AR), and Roger Wicker (R-MS) sent a letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regarding efforts to assess  more

WASHINGTON, March 4 -- The Government Accountability Office has issued a decision denying a bid protest filed by Noble Supply and Logistics of Rockland, Massachusetts. According to the GAO, Noble Supply & Logistics Inc., a small business, "requests that our Office recommend that the Department of the Air Force reimburse the firm for the reasonable costs of filing and pursuing four separate protests. Each protest challenged a request for quotations (RFQ) issued by the Air Force for the managemen  more

WASHINGTON, March 5 -- The Government Accountability Office has issued a report on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The report (GAO-20-362) is entitled "Fee-Setting, Billing, and Budgeting Processes Have Improved, but Additional Actions Could Enhance Efforts". The report was sent to Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, Rep. Greg Walden, R-Oregon, ranking Republican Leader of the House Energy a  more

WASHINGTON, March 4 -- Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release: Wyoming Congresswoman and House GOP Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) joined 15 of her House colleagues in sending a letter to President Trump calling on his administration to protect small refinery exemptions (SREs) that support thousands of American jobs contributing to U.S. energy independence. In January, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals invalidated hardship relief for three small refineries under a na  more

WASHINGTON, March 2 -- Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, issued the following statement after the signing of a deal between the U.S. and the Taliban in Doha: "Today's agreement with the Taliban includes concessions that could threaten the security of the United States. Releasing thousands of Taliban fighters, lifting sanctions on international terrorists, and agreeing to withdraw all U.S. forces in exchange for promises from the Taliban, with no disclosed mechanism to verify Taliban compliance, would  more

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release: Wyoming Congresswoman and House GOP Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) joined 129 of her House Republican colleagues in sending a letter to the Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), Mary Neumayr, supporting the council's efforts to modernize the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The letter highlights how NEPA has been abused by far-left environmental extremists to delay countless ene  more

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, issued the following statement after the Senate voted to approve more than $8 billion in funding for the U.S. to combat the coronavirus: "The coronavirus emergency funding provides a surge of more than $8 billion in resources to combat the virus. "That is what experts have told us they need for research efforts, vaccine development and treatment. "It also includes millions of dollars for response and prevention efforts in Wyoming. "We   more

WASHINGTON, March 4 -- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release on March 3: * * * - Presses Sec. Brouillette on relief for uranium producers, the Nuclear Fuel Working Group, granting small refineries hardship relief from RFS, and carbon capture technology. * * * U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) questioned Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Dan Brouillette. Barrasso pressed Brouillette to provide immediate relief for uranium producers and release the overdue Nucle  more

WASHINGTON, March 5 -- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following remarks on March 4: U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks at a hearing titled "Oversight of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission." The hearing featured testimony from the Honorable Kristine Svinicki, chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission; the Honor  more

WASHINGTON, March 5 -- Sen. Michael B. Enzi, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release: U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., introduced two amendments this week that would help increase the opportunities for locating and processing rare earth elements in Wyoming. The first amendment would help ensure that Wyoming's rare earth industry is included in a report the Department of Energy (DOE) sends to Congress. The second amendment would require DOE to study the importance of rare earth minerals to   more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. Michael B. Enzi, R-Wyoming, issued the following statement: U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Pat Toomey (R-Penn.), John Kennedy (R-La.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.), and James Lankford (R-Okla.) issued a statement following reports that President Trump will appeal the Tenth Circuit's decision on small refineries: "We're encouraged by the reports that the admini  more

WASHINGTON, March 7 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following statement with Sens. Jim Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, Ted Cruz, R-Texas, John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, Pat Toomey, R-Pennsylvania, John Kennedy, R-Louisiana, Mike Lee, R-Utah, Mike Enzi, R-Wyoming, Bill Cassidy, R-Louisiana, and Shelley Moore Capito, R-West Virginia, on the reports that President Trump will appeal the 10th Circuit's decision on small refineries: "We're encouraged by the reports that the administration will appeal t  more

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release: * * * - The bipartisan resolution honors American firefighters (including 15 from Wyoming) who traveled to Australia to help fight brush fires. It also marks the longstanding partnership between the United States and Australia during times of crisis. * * * U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) introduced a bipartisan resolution (S. Res. 527) Wednesday lauding the more than 100 years  more

WASHINGTON, March 3 -- Sen. Michael B. Enzi, R-Wyoming, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., Thom Tillis, R-N.C., Ben Sasse, R-Neb., and David Perdue, R-Ga., introduced legislation that would require the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to set salary rates according to the government's standard pay scale. Currently, the CFPB pays employees significantly more than other government agencies because it is not bound to the federal government's General Sche  more