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December 8, 2023 at 3:09 PM

Carrying on a Legacy of Selfless Service in Wyoming

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Carrying on a Legacy of Selfless Service in Wyoming  This week, the Senate passed legislation I introduced to reauthorize the Congressional Award Program. The Congressional Award’s roots run deep in Wyoming, and I am thril…

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December 1, 2023 at 6:27 PM

The True Harm of President Biden’s Green New Deal Agenda

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES The True Harm of President Biden’s Green New Deal Agenda  This week, President Biden’s Green New Deal agenda cost 19 employees at Black Butte Coal Company their jobs, and now more families in Wyoming will be dealing with t…

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November 17, 2023 at 7:31 PM

Saving Our Nation from Fiscal Disaster

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Saving Our Nation from Fiscal Disaster  For far too long, Congress has relied on 11th hour stop gap measures to temporarily fund the government before the holidays that are chock full of wasteful spending that increases ou…

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November 10, 2023 at 7:02 PM

Protecting Wyoming's Freedom from Washington's Big Government Tyranny

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Protecting Wyoming's Freedom from Washington's Big Government Tyranny The Constitution is crystal clear – if the government wants to conduct surveillance on its citizens, it needs to get a warrant.   Unfortunately, the fed…

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November 3, 2023 at 6:20 PM

Protecting Wyoming from the Deadly Threat of Fentanyl

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Protecting Wyoming from the Deadly Threat of Fentanyl The Biden administration’s open-door policy at our southwest border has not only jeopardized our national security, but it has exacerbated an already-raging opioid cri…

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October 27, 2023 at 2:06 PM

Innovation Has a Home in Wyoming

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Innovation Has a Home in Wyoming Inside the D.C. beltway, rural areas, like most of Wyoming, are often an afterthought or overlooked entirely. When the Biden administration began considering regions to award tech hub grant…

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October 20, 2023 at 5:51 PM

Let the People of Wyoming Manage our Land

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Let the People of Wyoming Manage our Land  The designation and management of public lands in Wyoming plays a far greater role than most inside the D.C. beltway realize. For decades, the people of Wyoming have effectively l…

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October 6, 2023 at 7:25 PM

Honoring Wyoming Energy Workers

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Honoring Wyoming Energy Workers  Every single day Wyoming energy producers work long hours in tough conditions to keep the lights on in our homes and our cars on the road.    Their hard work is often unappreciated and demo…

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September 29, 2023 at 9:13 PM

Congress Must Act to Prevent Reckless Government Spending

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Congress Must Act to Prevent Reckless Government Spending  This week, Congress once again finds itself with an 11th hour attempt to avoid a government shutdown. Tuesday, senators were handed an 80-page Continuing Resolutio…

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September 22, 2023 at 3:10 PM

Waging War on ESG & the ‘Woke’ Agenda

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Waging War on ESG & the ‘Woke’ Agenda The Environmental and Social Governance (ESG) movement, which among other methods attempts to deny financial services to industries the woke mob disagrees with politically, has bec…

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September 15, 2023 at 6:20 PM

President Biden’s Mineral and Energy Policies Put Wyoming Last

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES President Biden's Mineral and Energy Policies Put Wyoming Last This week, the Biden administration’s head-scratching energy and mining policy was on full display.    It began with Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm’s elect…

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September 8, 2023 at 5:01 PM

Biden’s War on American Energy

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Biden’s War on American Energy  Since his first day in the Oval Office, President Biden has run a tireless campaign to undermine American energy, and his administration’s latest misguided decision further sabotages our ene…

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July 28, 2023 at 8:45 PM

Keeping Communist China Out of Wyoming

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Keeping Communist China Out of Wyoming  China’s slow but steady mission to buy up American farmland is alarming.    It has managed to buy roughly 384,000 acres of U.S. farmland and a large portion of the land surrounds mil…

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July 21, 2023 at 8:17 PM

Defending Your Freedom of Speech

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Defending Your Freedom of Speech I take the protection of the privacy and individual liberties of the people of Wyoming very seriously. Unfortunately, President Biden does not.   His administration has systematically engag…

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July 14, 2023 at 6:42 PM

Bringing the Federal Permitting Process into the 21st Century

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Bringing the Federal Permitting Process into the 21st Century The long harsh winter months in Wyoming give us a very small window to fix our highways and roads. To make matters worse, the federal government’s outdated regu…

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June 23, 2023 at 4:19 PM

Inspiring Wyoming’s Next Generation

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Inspiring Wyoming’s Next Generation The Congressional Award program is the highest honor for our nation’s youth ages 14 to 23. It is a non-competitive program that has encouraged young Americans to unleash their potential …

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June 16, 2023 at 1:44 PM

Protecting Your Privacy

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Protecting Your Privacy Protecting your personal privacy is one of my top priorities in Congress. This week, I wrote an op-ed discussing the impacts technology has had on the safety of our privacy here in the U.S.    I hav…

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June 9, 2023 at 7:15 PM

Fighting Back Against the Green New Deal

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Fighting Back Against the Green New Deal  A recent report by the North American Reliability Corporation found that our nation’s electrical grid is woefully unprepared for the peak demand of hot summer months and the risk o…

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June 2, 2023 at 4:44 PM

Standing up for Fiscal Responsibility

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Standing up for Fiscal Responsibility  Perhaps the single biggest reason I decided to run for the U.S. Senate was my  concern over the national debt, which was $21 trillion when I entered office in January of 2021. The Fis…

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May 19, 2023 at 6:36 PM

Let Wyoming Govern Wyoming

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Let Wyoming Govern Wyoming This week, the Environment and Public Works Committee held a congressional hearing on the FY 2024 Budget request for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. During the hearing, I questioned Director …

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May 12, 2023 at 6:47 PM

Preventing Unnecessary Government Overreach in Wyoming

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Preventing Unnecessary Government Overreach in Wyoming This week, the Senate passed my Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution that provides clarity and transparency for landowners in Wyoming by pushing back on the Biden…

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May 5, 2023 at 5:27 PM

Streamlining the Permitting Process

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Streamlining the Permitting Process One of the slowest processes on planet earth, aside from the formation of fossils, is the federal permitting process. Vital projects ranging from those that would increase American energ…

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April 28, 2023 at 8:13 PM

Protecting Wyoming Truckers from Biden's Green Dreams

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Protecting Wyoming Truckers from Biden's Green Dreams After more than two years living under the Biden administration, one thing has become abundantly clear: President Biden and Democrats are adamant about implementing the…

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April 21, 2023 at 5:02 PM

Electric Vehicle Rule Hurts Wyoming, Helps China

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Electric Vehicle Rule Hurts Wyoming, Helps China The only solution the Biden administration seems to have to address climate change is to create hurdles to developing affordable, reliable energy and to rapidly electrify o…

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March 31, 2023 at 4:39 PM

Getting Government Out of Your Irrigation Ditch

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Getting Government Out of Your Irrigation Ditch The last two years of the Biden administration have been marked by instance after instance of federal government overreach and overregulation. The administration’s approach t…

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March 24, 2023 at 7:25 PM

Honoring Wyoming's Trailblazing Women

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Honoring Wyoming's Trailblazing Women  It is Women’s History Month, and I am lucky to represent a state that is known for pioneering women’s rights.   Wyoming is known as the Equality State because we were the first state …

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March 17, 2023 at 7:02 PM

Protecting Wyoming from Out of Control Wildfires

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Protecting Wyoming from Out of Control Wildfires  This week, I introduced the Forest Protection and Wildland Firefighter Safety Act. This legislation protects firefighters, public lands and communities in Wyoming from the …

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March 10, 2023 at 8:12 PM

Putting an End to President Biden's Out-of-Control Spending

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Putting an End to President Biden's Out-of-Control Spending  President Biden released his budget this week, and to no one’s surprise, it increases spending, deepens our deficit and continues down an unsustainable fiscal path.…

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March 3, 2023 at 8:03 PM

Keeping the WHO Out of Our Health Care

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Keeping the WHO Out of Our Health Care The COVID-19 pandemic exposed many vulnerabilities in our society, from shortcomings in our supply chain to a lack of checks and balances on certain institutions. One of those institu…

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February 17, 2023 at 6:55 PM

Managing the Bears

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES MANAGING THE BEARS In 1974, the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) grizzly bear was on the brink of extinction. An estimated 136 roamed the habitat and were rapidly disappearing. The decision to add the grizzly bear to th…

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February 10, 2023 at 6:04 PM

Protecting Wyoming's Energy and Mining Industries

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Protecting Wyoming's Energy and Mining Industries This week, I reintroduced the Protecting Our Wealth of Energy Resources (POWER) Act in the Senate. This was one of the first bills I introduced in the 117th Congress to pu…

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February 3, 2023 at 7:50 PM

Taking the Reins of the Senate Western Caucus

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January 27, 2023 at 5:57 PM

Gas Stoves and Government Overreach

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Gas Stoves and Government Overreach With all that is going on in the world, leave it to the Biden Administration to take aim at … home appliances. Recent reports circulated that the Consumer Protection Safety Commissio…

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December 23, 2022 at 7:52 PM

Washington Has a Spending Problem

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Washington Has a Spending Problem This week, Congress voted to fund the government, but did nothing to address our spending problem. I fear we are reaching a point of no return, which is why I voted against this massive sp…

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December 16, 2022 at 6:42 PM

What Will Congress Get for Christmas?

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES What Will Congress Get for Christmas? Christmas time is here again, and although I have told my family that I’ll be home for Christmas, we are waiting on Senate Democrats to present a spending bill for us to vote on. This …

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December 9, 2022 at 5:55 PM

Wyoming Takes Over the Western Caucus

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Wyoming Takes Over the Western Caucus I’m excited to announce that in the 118th Congress, I will have the honor of serving as the chairman of the Senate Western Caucus, an organization that gathers senators from states we…

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December 2, 2022 at 6:50 PM

Railroads and the Economy: An Important Lesson

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Railroads and the Economy: An Important Lesson    Yesterday, the Senate voted to avert a potentially catastrophic rail strike. To put it plainly, Congress should have never been involved in these labor negotiations. Had C…

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November 18, 2022 at 9:57 PM

Bringing the Government into the 21st Century

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Bringing the Government into the 21st Century We have all heard the joke in Wyoming that we have three seasons: summer, winter, and road construction, and that last season seems to get longer and longer every year. Constru…

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November 11, 2022 at 9:03 PM

Honoring Wyoming & Our Nation’s Veterans

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES HONORING WYOMING & OUR NATION'S VETERANS     As my staff and I participate in Veterans Day ceremonies across the state today, we pause, reflect, and honor those who have served, and are currently serving, in our nation…

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October 28, 2022 at 8:47 PM

Honoring an Icon

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES HONORING AN ICON The Federal Building at 308 W 21st St in Cheyenne has been officially renamed. Yesterday, my team and I were in Cheyenne and joined by Governor Mark Gordon, Mayor Patrick Collins, State Representative Cath…

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October 14, 2022 at 7:02 PM

Inflation, the New Norm

  HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Inflation, the New Norm For 18 months, we have experienced record high inflation. Prices continue to rise, and the people of Wyoming feel it more and more every single day. Items at the grocery store that used to be stapl…

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September 30, 2022 at 5:37 PM

Down to the Wire: Funding the Government

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Down to the Wire: Funding the Government    Year after year, the Senate waits until the last minute to vote to fund the government. We know the deadline, it never changes. We have until September 30th to craft a budget and…

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September 23, 2022 at 2:18 PM

Supporting Wyoming Families

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES SUPPORTING WYOMING FAMILIES It has been a busy few weeks in the Senate, and I have been working hard to support families across Wyoming. I wanted to give you an update on some of my recent efforts to improve healthcare in Wyo…

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September 16, 2022 at 7:08 PM

Averting a Catastrophic Railroad Strike

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Averting a Catastrophic Railroad Strike     This week, the American economy held its breath as we waited to hear the outcome of months of negotiations between major American railroad companies and labor unions. I have be…

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September 9, 2022 at 9:03 PM

Working Across Wyoming this Summer

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Working Across Wyoming this Summer     August gets very quiet in Washington, D.C. when the House and Senate stand in recess. Thankfully, this gives me the opportunity to be home in Wyoming and meet face-to-face with consti…

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August 5, 2022 at 6:09 PM

Higher Prices and Higher Taxes

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES HIGHER PRICES AND HIGHER TAXES Last week, news broke that Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) reached a deal on a pared-down version of the Democrats’ Build Back Better plan. This plan conta…

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July 29, 2022 at 8:56 PM

County Fairs Are Kicking Off

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES County Fairs Are Kicking Off            One of my favorite times of the year is here, as county fairs are kicking off around Wyoming. Growing up, I showed shorthorn cattle at fair and it is one of my favorite memories. Every …

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July 22, 2022 at 8:20 PM

A Reality Check on the Green New Deal

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES A Reality Check on the Green New Deal    If you’ve heard President Biden speak in recent months, you are likely familiar with the term “green energy” and his Administration’s push to prioritize renewable energy — most ofte…

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July 15, 2022 at 8:17 PM

The Real Reason for Your Pain At the Pump

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES The Real Reason for Our Pain At the Pump       Pain at the pump is all too common these days as people in Wyoming are filling up to drive to work and go on vacation. The Biden administration would like Americans to believe…

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June 24, 2022 at 7:16 PM

Why I Voted Against Gun Reform

HOME | ABOUT | MEDIA | SERVICES | ISSUES Why I Voted Against Gun Reform    This week, the Senate passed a gun reform bill led by Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Chris Murphy (D-CT). While I admire the bipartisanship and coordination it took to come to this compro…

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