News Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), issued the following statement after the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released their finalized Public Lands Rule. This rule subverts the multiple-use requirement under the Federal Land Policy Management Act and will block access to federal lands. In effect, this rule will turn thousands of acres of federal lands from ‘multiple-use’ into ‘non-use.’

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) led her colleagues Senators John Barrasso (R-WY), Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) in introducing the Postal Operations Stay Timely and Local (POSTAL) Act, bipartisan legislation to prevent the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) from closing, consolidating or downgrading its processing and distribution centers nationwide if it eliminates the sole sorting center in a state or adversely impacts mail delivery.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) today slammed Senate Democrats for unanimously voting to dismiss the Senate impeachment of Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas without a full and fair trial as required by the United States Constitution.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) pressed Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Daniel Werfel on the IRS’ direct filing program, increased spending and bloated funding request.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) joined U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and their Republican colleagues in a letter to President Biden urging the administration to not renew oil sanctions relief for Venezuela.

Washington, D.C.— U.S. Senators John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis (both R-WY) joined Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and 41 of their colleagues in sending a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer demanding he fulfill his constitutional duties to properly adjudicate the U.S. House of Representatives’ Articles of Impeachment against U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Alejandro Mayorkas with a full Senate trial.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis (both R-Wyo.) joined their colleagues in voting for a Congressional Review Act joint resolution of disapproval to overturn the Biden administration’s illegal emissions performance measure imposed on state departments of transportation (DOTs) and metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs).

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) spoke today on the Senate floor about Senate Democrats’ attempts to bury charges against Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in order to avoid an impeachment trial.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) spoke recently on the Senate floor about President Biden’s new electric vehicle mandate. This mandate is President Biden’s latest attack on Americans’ freedoms, consumer choice, American jobs, and energy security.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) led his Republican colleagues in a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen expressing serious concern over the $110 billion in target tax increases on the production of oil, gas, and coal in the Biden administration’s General Explanations of the Administration’s Fiscal Year 2025 Revenue Proposals (Green Book).