Legislative Actions:

• I cosponsored Senator John Thune’s legislation that would expedite the NEPA process on timber projects within the Black Hills National Forest.
  
  • Wyoming’s timber industry is exposed to serious economic harm from the Forest Service’s proposed reduction on timber harvesting in the Black Hills. The timber industry also helps regulate the ecological health of the Black Hills as harvesting timber minimizes the threat of pine beetles and forest fires.
• I cosigned Senator Steve Daines’s letter to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and Explosives (ATF) voicing our grave concern over the ATF’s denial of permits to individuals manufacturing their own firearm suppressors.
  
  • The people of Wyoming’s constitutionally guaranteed Second Amendment rights are endangered whenever a government agency attempts to curtail these rights through arbitrary actions such as denying permits to law abiding citizens.
• I cosponsored Senator John Barrasso’s Uranium Import Bill that would prohibit the import of Russian uranium into the United States. Revenue from Russian uranium exports are funding Russia’s aggression towards Ukraine.
  
  • Wyoming is the largest producer of uranium in the country. We have more than enough uranium to make up for Russian imports into this country, which would create more jobs and also provide long-term energy and national security.

Major Votes:

• Passage of S.J. Res.37, Public Transportation Mask Requirement Congressional Review Act
  
• Supported
  
  • This resolution would get rid of face mask requirements on planes, trains, buses, and other public modes of transportation and at transportation hubs.

There continue to be concerns about the future of the supply chain and construction projects throughout the state. The toll that this has taken on contractors and large-scale infrastructure projects is very apparent. My colleagues and I are pushing the White House to come up with solutions to these ever growing issues.

Media:

I joined Neil Cavuto on Fox Business to discuss rising oil prices and the importance of severing our trade ties with Russia.
Watch the clip here.

News Around Wyoming:

Lummis, Barrasso Praise Senate’s Passage Of Daylight Savings Bill
Cowboy State Daily
A vote by the U.S. Senate to make daylight savings time permanent in the United States is being hailed by both of Wyoming’s senators.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the bill that would make daylight savings time permanent in 2023, rather than having the country switch between daylight savings time and standard time twice a year. U.S. Senators Cynthia Lummis and John Barrasso said they thought their colleagues made the right choice in passing the legislation.

Lummis Pushes Back on Biden Administration’s Labor Mandates
Sheridan Media
U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) joined 42 of her colleagues in the Senate by issuing a letter to President Biden urging him to consider competition over labor unions when it comes to taxpayer-funded construction contracts. In reference to the letter, Lummis said the Biden Administration’s efforts to prop up dwindling labor unions comes at the expense of taxpayer dollars and she believes that projects should be awarded to qualified contractors regardless of their connection to labor unions. Lummis added that competition drives down prices and increases transparency, and that should be our top priority.

According to a release from Lummis, Project Labor Agreements put local Wyoming companies at a disadvantage due to low rates of union membership across the state. Lummis said she believes that projects executed in Wyoming should be completed by Wyoming companies and workers, regardless of union status.