Legislative Actions:

• I cosigned a letter led by Senator James Risch (R-ID) that encourages the inclusion of Wyoming as an eligible participating state for the Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission.
  
  • It is extremely important that Wyoming has access to all possible wildfire mitigation resources to protect our citizens and economy.
    
• I cosponsored Senator Mike Crapo’s (R-ID) Hearing Protection Act that would remove firearms suppressors from regulations under the National Firearms Act and would, instead, regulate them as a normal firearm.
  
  • People in Wyoming should have the right to purchase firearms suppressors without going through such a restrictively regulated and slow process.
    
• I Introduced the Gig Worker Equity Compensation Act with Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) that would enable gig economy workers to receive stock in companies like Uber and DoorDash.
  
  • Bills like this will greatly help Wyoming’s thousands of gig workers by allowing them to receive valuable stock in the companies that they work for.

Committee Hearings: 

Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW)

• The EPW Committee held a hearing entitled “Promoting American Energy Security by Facilitating Investments and Innovation in Climate Solutions.”
• I questioned a panel of four witnesses about President Biden’s domestic energy policies that have made the U.S. less energy secure, the outcomes of greenhouse gas reduction efforts by the oil and gas industry, and the prohibiting of Russian uranium imports. To watch the hearing, click here.

I met with Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson last week. She is President Biden’s nominee to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. I was able to ask her about various constitutional issues during our meeting. Many people in Wyoming have raised their concerns about her nomination, and I am keeping those in mind as I closely evaluate her nomination.

News Around Wyoming:

Lummis Staff to Hold Office Hours in Sheridan County
Sheridan Media
Staff for U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming will hold remote office hours in Sheridan on Tuesday March 22, to meet with constituents. Field Representative Bronwyn Lance will be available to meet with residents individually and hear ideas, comments and concerns about what is happening in the U.S. Senate, and also to help anyone having trouble working with a federal agency.

Lummis said she continues to work every day to make the federal government work for the people of Wyoming, whether that is through legislation like the HERD Act to get federal agencies back to work for Wyoming, or through the Financial Innovation Caucus to show her Senate colleagues how Wyoming has pioneered digital asset regulation, she is working to best represent and defend the Wyoming way of doing things.

Barrasso, Lummis Seek Ban on Russian Uranium
Rawlins Times
Wyoming’s Sen. John Barrasso has called repeatedly for uranium to be included in the federal ban on Russian energy imports. He introduced a bill in the Senate on Wednesday intended to keep Russian uranium out of U.S. reactors.

The succinct bill — it consists of two sentences beneath the header, “Prohibition on importation of uranium from the Russian Federation” — is also sponsored by Sens. Cynthia Lummis, R-WY, Roger Marshall, R-KS, and Kevin Cramer, R-N.D.