• Updates from Barrasso, Lummis, Hageman.
Barrasso: American Families Need Relief from Persistent and Painful High Prices
U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, today issued the following statement after the July 2023 Consumer Price Index (CPI) revealed inflation accelerated last month and has risen 16.8% since President Joe Biden took office.
“American families need relief from persistent and painful high prices. Joe Biden signed the Democrats’ reckless tax and spending spree into law one year ago. He claimed more spending would bring down prices. Once again, he was wrong. Prices are still going up. Americans are facing sky-high prices at the grocery store, at the gas pump, and while back-to-school shopping. They’re digging into their dwindling savings just to keep up.”
Barrasso, Lummis Urge Biden Admin to Reverse Plan to Prematurely Close Wyoming Power Plants
U.S. Senators John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis (Both R-WY) joined U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and 36 of their Senate colleagues in sending a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) urging the withdrawal of its latest set of proposed power plant regulations that will force the closure of coal and gas-fired power plants. The proposal would kill good paying jobs across Wyoming in addition to jeopardizing the power grid and driving up costs for states across the west that rely on Wyoming energy.
“In direct conflict with West Virginia v. EPA, this proposal requires generation shifting from fossil-fuel power to other types of energy. While the Agency falsely claims this does not run afoul of the Supreme Court’s decision, it is undeniable the proposal would require generation shifting that the Court has definitively found Congress has never granted EPA the authority to require under the Clean Air Act,” the senators wrote in a letter. The full letter can be seen on Sen. Lummis’ website.
Hageman: H.R. 1245: Grizzly Bear State Management Act
Wyoming media has been filled these last few months with stories of bear attacks; this is in part due to Wyoming’s grizzly population being 400+ bears over the recovery goal set by the USFWS pursuant to the mandates of the Endangered Species Act. Considering the fact that the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly bear is fully recovered, my bill will delist them from the ESA and return management to state authorities so that they can manage all of our wildlife pursuant to sound policies of species management, as well as protect our livestock producers from grizzly depredation.
Status: After discussion and markup, my bill was passed by the Natural Resources Committee and is now being prepared for a vote by the full House of Representatives! My staff and I are working every day to spread awareness about Wyoming’s grizzly issue and gather the votes needed to pass this bill.
