News Releases

CASPER, WY – U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) released the following statement after the Kemmerer family announced the sale of the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort to local buyers.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) introduced pro-growth legislation to help small businesses, farmers, and ranchers purchase the equipment and supplies they need to build their operations and support their employees.

CASPER, WY – U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) and U.S. Representative Jodey Arrington (R-TX), along with a bipartisan, bicameral group of legislators recently sent a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai regarding the Government of Mexico’s pursuit of discriminatory policies that favor Mexican state-run energy companies and directly undermine United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) commitments. The letter demands Representative Tai swiftly establish a USMCA dispute settlement panel to address Mexico’s discriminatory policies across the energy sector.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) released a statement regarding a proposed rule issued by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The proposal codifies provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act that intentionally raised the price of leasing federal lands for oil and gas production. BLM is doubling down by adding costs to each individual well, further restricting where development can occur on federal lands and adding burdensome requirements on permits.

WASHINGTON, DC – In honor of the hardworking men and women that established the American West, the U.S. Senate has declared July 22, 2023 as the National Day of the American Cowboy.

CASPER, WY – U.S. Senators John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis, both R-Wyo., recently hosted a Wyoming Farm Bill Priorities Roundtable with Senator John Boozman (R-Ark.), the top Republican on the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. Senator Boozman is one of the primary authors of the upcoming Farm Bill.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis, both R-Wyo., joined Senator Tom Carper, D-Del., in introducing a bipartisan bill today to honor former Shoshoni Postmaster Dessie Bebout by naming the local post office after her. Bebout, a WWII veteran, passed away earlier this year at age 102.

CASPER, WY – U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) appeared on Fox News Sunday with Shannon Bream to discuss the Biden administration’s approach to China and the president’s upcoming trip to the NATO Summit. They also discussed Russia’s ongoing aggression in Ukraine and providing Ukraine with the support they need.

CASPER, WY – U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, today issued the following statement after the United State Supreme Court ruled the Biden administration lacked authority to use executive action to cancel student loan debt.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Senators John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis (both R-Wyo.), voted to protect the Second Amendment rights of the people of Wyoming. The senators joined U.S. Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) and their Republican colleagues in voting for a resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) of the Biden administration’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) pistol brace rule.