Cynthia Lummis - Senator for Wyoming

*Protecting AM Radio and the
Wyoming Way of Life*

From ranchers driving their tractor across
their property to truckers traversing I-80, AM radio brings
entertainment to people throughout the Cowboy State. In many corners
of Wyoming, AM radio is the only window to the outside world for news,
sports and emergency alerts.
Coastal elites who design electric
vehicles once again fail to understand our way of life in Wyoming.
Recently, EV makers have been eliminating AM radio from their cars,
jeopardizing public safety.
It is critical that we protect AM radio
and the western way of life in Wyoming. I have joined with U.S.
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) in cosponsoring the *AM Radio for Every
Vehicle Act* [link 1] which would direct the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA) to require automakers to maintain AM
broadcast radio in their new vehicles.
This bill would direct the
NHTSA to issue a rule that requires automakers to maintain AM
broadcast radio in their vehicles without a separate or additional
payment, fee or surcharge.
The legislation is supported by a
bipartisan coalition of 60 senators and 246 members in the House of
Representatives. I look forward to the Senate taking up this bill and
safeguarding the people of Wyoming's access to life-saving
information.
In Wyoming and rural areas throughout the west, AM radio
is critical and sometimes the only means of mass communication.
We
must safeguard AM radio.

Happy Trails,

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Senator
Lummis' Week in Pictures

Always a great morning when it's Wyoming
Wednesday.

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Legislative
Actions

The *Endangered Species Act* (ESA) has been a failed and
flawed piece of legislation for more than 50 years. Instead of working
with stakeholders in Wyoming to improve the ESA, the Biden
administration chose to undo what worked and double down on what does
not by rolling back a series of key Trump-era reforms that increased
stakeholder engagement, defined critical habitat and ensured species
recovery plans were effective.
U.S Senators Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Pete
Ricketts (R-NE) and I introduced three [link 2] *Congressional Review
Act *(CRA) resolutions to overturn the Biden administration's reversal
of these critical reforms. These resolutions will ensure the
highly-effective Trump-era reforms stay in place instead of being
replaced by one-size-fits-all mandates from Washington bureaucrats
that are disastrous to the western way of life.
The three rules
are:
*Blanket Rule Elimination
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The 2019 reforms eliminated
the "blanket rule" under Section 4(d) that automatically provides
endangered level protections to species listed only as threatened and
instead required threatened species to be managed with specifically
tailored plans.
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The Biden rule reinstates the blanket rule,
essentially treating all threatened species as endangered once again.
*Critical Habitat Changes
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The 2019 reforms allowed FWS and
NOAA to research and share the economic impacts of a listing
determination under the ESA and provided flexibility in defining
critical habitat.
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Under the Biden reversal, the agencies are no
longer able to share or disseminate information on the economic impact
of a listing and requires that unoccupied areas are designated as
critical habitat.

*Section 7 Changes
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Among the numerous
changes to Section 7, the 2019 reforms established standards to ensure
analysis for proposed actions is limited to only "activities that are
reasonably certain to occur" instead of using hypothetical worst-case
scenarios that were unlikely to happen.

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The Biden rule would
eliminate this clarification and allow radical environmentalist to
depart from the facts before them and use fear-mongering as a
pre-tense for sweeping regulations.

Working for Wyoming

At the
same time the Biden administration wastes billions of dollars on Green
New Deal nonsense and announces plans to give illegal aliens
taxpayer-funded health care, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) attempted
to close the Casper and Cheyenne Processing and Distribution Centers
(P&DC) in the name of fiscal responsibility.
Beyond the fact that it
is completely laughable to say the Biden administration does anything
in the name of fiscal responsibility, closing the Casper and Cheyenne
facilities would leave Wyoming without a single Processing and
Distribution Center. Mail sent from one Wyoming address to another
would be forced to go to Colorado or Montana for sorting, and
inevitably lead to delays.
I have continually fought the
USPS-proposed shuttering of Casper and Cheyenne's sorting facilities
because folks across the Cowboy State rely on timely mail delivery for
their medicine, to pay their bills and to communicate with one
another.
I sent a letter [link 3] to USPS Postmaster General DeJoy
with 28 of my colleagues requesting USPS pause its planned closing of
Processing and Distribution Centers, including the Cheyenne and Casper
facilities, and introduced legislation [link 4] which seeks to prevent
the USPS from closing, consolidating or downgrading its P&DC
facilities nationwide if such an action would remove the sole P&DC
within a state or negatively impact mail delivery.
I am encouraged
the U.S. Postal Service finally listened to the people of Wyoming's
concerns and announced this week it will halt its disastrous plan.
I
hope USPS continues to think about the true impacts this restructuring
would have on our country's most rural communities before downsizing
any of our state's processing facilities.

Grant Information

The
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has unveiled $50 billion in
grant funding as part of its Water Technical Assistance (WaterTA)
program which provides funding for safe drinking water, wastewater and
stormwater services in Wyoming.
The program supports communities in
identifying water challenges, developing plans, building capacity and
developing application materials to access water infrastructure
funding. To implement WaterTA, the EPA collaborates with states,
tribes, territories, community partners and other key
stakeholders.
Click here [link 5] to learn more and find out if you
are eligible.

Wyoming Shoutout

Wyoming's own Andrew Pascoe was
approved to receive his Combat Action Badge honoring his service in
Iraq on May 2, 2005.

However, a series of events unfolded,
including Pascoe switching units and being honorably discharged. In
the end, he never got his badge.
Andrew diligently maintained all
his paperwork and has been working with my team to communicate with
the Department of Defense to receive his badge. I am happy to announce
that his badge arrived this week, and he is finally rightfully being
honored.

Thank you, Andrew for protecting our freedoms.

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Contact
Information:

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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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