Legislative Action:

• I cosponsored Senator Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) No Retaining Every Gun In a System That Restricts Your Rights (No REGISTRY) Act that would force the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to halt the collection of firearms transaction records, and would require the agency to destroy all firearms transactions that it currently holds.
  
  • Wyoming citizens should have the right to purchase firearms without the federal government recording and retaining data on every gun they purchase at a registered firearms dealer.
    
• I cosponsored Senator Tom Cotton’s (R-AR) legislation that would prohibit federal funding for the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Disinformation Governance Board (DGB).
  
  • The DGB threatens to infringe upon the First Amendment rights that we in Wyoming hold dear, and was created without any consultation with Congress.
    
• I cosigned a letter to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) regarding future bans or limitations on the use of lead ammo or tackle on public lands.
  
  • Access to public lands is a part of our way of life in Wyoming. The USFWS’s decision on whether or not to ban lead ammo and tackle will significantly impact sportsmen in our state.

Committee Hearings:

Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

• Hearing entitled “Department of Transportation Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Priorities”
  
• I discussed the withdrawal of regional airlines from rural communities, like those in Wyoming, with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and how the Department is going to address these issues. To watch the hearing, click here.

Major Votes:

• S.J. Res. 39, Toddler Mask Mandate Congressional Review Act
  
• Supported
  • This is a joint resolution to nullify a Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) rule published on November 30, 2021 mandating that children in Head Start programs wear masks while at Head Start facilities, including outside on Head Start playgrounds.

This week I am hosting the second annual Wyoming Aerospace and Defense Industry Conference in Casper. The aerospace and defense market has the capability to greatly diversify Wyoming's economy. During this conference, we will examine how Wyoming companies fit into the larger picture of aerospace technology and manufacturing, how supply chain issues have been impacting business, and how Wyoming can seize these economic opportunities.

News Around Wyoming:

Bipartisan public lands mapping bill becomes law
Casper Star Tribune
Western public lands are going digital. President Joe Biden signed the MAPLand Act — a popular piece of legislation intended to boost access to the country’s public lands — into law on Friday.

The new law affords federal land managers $47 million to publish online maps of U.S. public lands, including how they can be used and how and when they can be accessed, within the next four years. It previously cleared the House of Representatives in mid-March and the Senate in early April, cosponsored by Sens. John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis, R-WY.

Barrasso, Lummis Back Move To Kill Biden ‘Disinformation’ Board
Cowboy State Daily
Wyoming’s U.S. senators signed on to a bill Tuesday intended to kill a newly created “disinformation” board designed to cut down on the distribution of foreign misinformation in the U.S.

The bill would prohibit the use of federal funds for the Disinformation Governance Board of the Department of Homeland Security and would also prevent funds from going toward “any other similar entity established” in DHS.

Senator Lummis Discusses Title 42
Sheridan Media
During a recent interview with Larry Kudlow on Fox Business, U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) discussed Republican efforts to preserve Title 42 border policies to address the crisis at the southern border and the upcoming consideration of the United States Innovation and Competition Act. Lummis was asked about legislation from Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) that would allow the Title 42 Public Health Order that’s in place due to the pandemic to combat drug smuggling at the border.

On the United States Innovation and Competition Act, Lummis said it is more spending on climate than can possibly address climate in a meaningful or responsible way and one of the problems that’s being encountered in Congress is that the response to climate change is to throw money at it in indiscriminate, poorly vetted ways. Lummis added that it is then sprinkled throughout the budgets, it’s in places you’d never think to look for it and it is being wasted on things that will not move the needle on climate change.