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from the Casper Star Tribune
November 18 , 2019
Eye On Washington
BY NICK REYNOLDS
Liz Cheney slammed President Donald Trump for a tweet criticizing a former Ukraine ambassador who testified against him in impeachment proceedings last week. Beyond that, the congresswoman garnered a number of positive headlines, including an effort with Wyoming’s VFW Post 1881 to secure replacement medals to the son of a WWII veteran that were stolen from him and her introduction of a resolution looking to designate Dec. 10 as “Wyoming Women’s Suffrage Day.”
Rep. Cheney hosted a number of Wyomingites in Washington this week, hosting Wyoming Reps. Tyler Lindholm and Andi Clifford on military issues (Lindholm has been a critic of Cheney’s involvement in perpetuating the United States’ role in “endless wars”) and the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality’s Alan Edwards, who was invited to testify on Wyoming’s experience with the AML program.
Cheney also joined Sens. Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham to introduce legislation that would dismantle a key part of the Iran nuclear deal and, amid all this activity, found time to speak to the centrist Republican public policy organization known as the Ripon Society, where she reiterated her belief that impeachment proceedings against President Trump have distracted the House Intelligence Committee from other pressing matters, leaving the U.S. vulnerable to interference from foreign adversaries.
“The House Intelligence Committee is one of the most important committees in Congress when it comes to the security of our nation,” she said. “When you take the Intelligence Committee and consume it with impeachment, that means the Committee’s members are not spending their time getting briefings on what’s happening around the world, whether it’s in Syria or North Korea or China or Russia.”
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The Ripon Society is a public policy organization that was founded in 1962 and takes its name from the town where the Republican Party was born in 1854 -- Ripon, Wisconsin. One of the main goals of the Ripon Society is to promote the ideas and principles that have made America great and contributed to the GOP’s success. These ideas include keeping our nation secure, keeping taxes low and having a federal government that is smaller, smarter and more accountable to the people. For more information on the Ripon Society, please visit http://www.riponsociety.org.
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