Cynthia Lummis - Senator for Wyoming

It's time for Senate Democrats
to put the people over politics

Next week, the Senate will be faced
with a critical decision: fulfill our constitutional obligations and
give the American people the opportunity to hold Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas accountable for
his disastrous open-border policies or cave to political pressure by
shielding this administration from taking accountability for the
disastrous border crisis.

Five years ago, Majority Leader Schumer
repeatedly told colleagues and the American public, "we would do well
to remember our constitutional duty to act as judges and jurors in a
potential trial," yet is noticeably silent as a member of his own
party faces justifiable scrutiny. In our country's more than 200-year
history, the U.S. House of Representatives has sent Articles of
Impeachment to the Senate just 21 times, and the Senate has fulfilled
its responsibility to schedule a trial each time unless the subject
resigned or was removed from office prior to conviction.

The
overwhelming majority of Americans agree Secretary Mayorkas is
deliberately skirting his responsibility to enforce our current
immigration laws, and this week during a telephone townhall I hosted
with Senator John Barrasso, people calling in from across the state of
Wyoming echoed this sentiment.

Under Secretary Mayorkas' failed
leadership, dangerous cartels have assumed control of the southwest
border this administration abandoned, and they have rolled out the red
carpet for people on the terror watch list and flooded our communities
with dangerous drugs. Fentanyl-related deaths have become the number
one killer of young Americans and more than 300 suspects on the Known
Terror Watchlist have been apprehended attempting to enter our country
illegally. All told, there have been more than 9.2 million illegal
aliens who have invaded the U.S. on Secretary Mayorkas' watch, and
every state has become a border state.

I have always maintained
impeachment is-- and should be--a last resort, yet Secretary Mayorkas'
blatant and repeated failures to uphold the rule of law and prioritize
American citizens' safety can no longer go unanswered. The people of
Wyoming have made their position on this matter crystal clear and they
deserve answers.

This week, I joined Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
in sending a letter [link 1] to Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) demanding
a trial for Secretary Mayorkas' impeachment. We have a moral and
constitutional obligation to hold Secretary Mayorkas accountable for
his catastrophic failures to enforce U.S. immigration laws and by
falsely testifying to Congress that the border is secure. Leader
Schumer's plan to table the Articles of Impeachment not only violates
Senate rules, but effectively silences the American people. Majority
Leader Schumer and Senate Democrats' partisan attempts to shield this
administration from its self-inflicted crisis will not stand, and I
will continue to fight so the people of Wyoming are able to hold
Secretary Mayorkas accountable.



Happy Trails,

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Senator Lummis' Week in Pictures

This week, I had the
privilege of hosting groups from across the Cowboy State in our
nation's capital during our Wyoming Wednesday with Senator John
Barrasso and Rep. Harriet Hageman.

If you plan on traveling to
Washington, D.C. over the next few months, I encourage you to come by
the Capitol on Wednesday mornings for breakfast and
conversation.

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Working for
Wyoming

This week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
announced it would
set the maximum contaminant level (MCL) for two of
the most common and
best-studied per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances
(PFAS) in drinking
water, once again establishing unworkable water
standards that could
drastically harm Wyoming's rural water
providers.

The people of Wyoming need access to clean, safe
drinking water, and I
support creating a standard for PFAS and PFOS
levels in drinking water,
but I am worried about the precedent this
standard would set. These
treatment levels seem nearly unattainable,
and I have serious concerns
over the cost of compliance. Wyoming
taxpayers and ratepayers should not
be responsible for this cost; it
should be paid by those causing the
pollution. As D.C. bureaucrats
continue handing down their out-of-touch
regulations that challenge
our western way of life, I will continue my
work to shield the people
of Wyoming and ensure this administration's
onerous regulations do
not limit Wyoming's producers and industries.

Grant Information


The United States Department of Agriculture will be accepting
applications for funding under the ReConnect Program
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2]until
May 21, 2024. This is the fifth round of funding under the
program,
which provides loans and grants to bring high-speed internet
to the most
underserved rural and tribal communities across the
country.

A total of $700 million is available under four funding
categories:

? Up to $200 million is available for loans.

? Up to
$200 million is available for loan/grant combinations.

? Up to $150
million is available for grants.

? Up to $150 million is available
for grants serving Alaska Native
corporations, tribal governments,
persistent poverty areas and socially
vulnerable
communities.

Wyoming Shoutout

This week, Laramie is a little
safer thanks to the hard work and
dedication of the Laramie County
Sheriff's Office which successfully
executed Operation Shattered
Glass, seizing 16,385 fentanyl pills, 604
grams of methamphetamine,
64 grams of heroin, 4 grams of cocaine and
five unlawfully possessed
firearms.

Thanks to the tireless efforts of the sheriff's
department and a
15-month-long investigation, 32 suspects, including
12 who were higher
level dealers, are now in custody and lethal drugs
are off the streets
of Laramie. Please join me in thanking the
detectives and the state and
federal officials who partnered to
successfully get these dangerous
drugs off of our streets.

Read
the full story here [link 3].


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Contact
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Office
Locations:
Cody
1285 Sheridan Avenue
Suite 215
Cody, WY
82414
Phone: 307-527-9444

Sundance
120 North 4th Street
(769)
P.O. Box 769
Sundance, WY 82729
Phone:
307-283-3461

Cheyenne
Federal Center
2120 Capitol Avenue, Suite
2007
Cheyenne, WY 82001
Phone: 307-772-2477

Star Valley
80 lst
Street, Suite 105
P.O. Box 1630
Afton, WY 83110
Phone:
307-248-1736

Casper
Dick Cheney Federal Bldg.
100 East B Street,
Suite 3201
PO Box 33201
Casper, WY 82601
Phone:
307-261-6572

Washington, DC
Russell Senate
Office Building
Room
SR 127A
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-3424

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