{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://cheney.house.gov/media/newsletters/congressman-cheneys-october-13th-newsletter", "Congressman Cheney's October 13th Newsletter", "2017-10-13", "2017", "2017-10", "Republican", "House", "WY", "Liz Cheney", "C001109", "cheney.house.gov", null, null, "legacy", "This Week\u2019s Roundup \n- On Monday, The Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt announced his plan to repeal the Obama administration\u2019s \u201cClean Power Plan.\u201d The withdrawal of this plan is an important and necessary step in reversing Obama-era policies that were aimed at killing our coal industry.\u00a0 For too long, the clean power plan killed jobs and needlessly wasted hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars in a misguided attempt to prop up renewable energy by strangling our fossil fuel industry.\u00a0 Click here to read my full statement: https://goo.gl/i8zDLK\n-\u00a0 \u00a0I was honored Speaker Ryan asked me to serve on the National Defense Authorization Act Conference Committee. The NDAA is critical for the defense of our country and I look forward to working with fellow conferees to ensure our service men and women have the resources they need to defend our nation. As the Natural Resource Committee representative for the conference, I will also fight to maintain provisions I had included in the House bill that are important to Wyoming, like the provisions that support operations at F.E. Warren and a restriction on removing the Bells of Balangiga from Wyoming.\u00a0\n-\u00a0 \u00a0I sent a letter to Senator John McCain and to Secretary of Defense Mattis regarding the Bells of Balangiga, requesting his support for Section 2841 of the House-passed version of the National Defense Authorization Act. Wyoming veterans have served for years as the caretaker and defender of this memorial to fallen American soldiers. I will continue to fight to keep the bells at F.E. Warren and ensure the provision I was able to include in the NDAA will remain during it\u2019s passing to protect the wishes of our veterans. Click here to read the full letter: https://goo.gl/j64LZt\n-\u00a0 \u00a0Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke met with the Coal Caucus this Wednesday. Zinke highlighted all the important steps the Trump administration has taken to help support our coal industry, including the repeal of the Clean Power Plan, ending the moratorium on coal leases on public lands, and moving to repeal and replace WOTUS.\u00a0 Secretary Zinke also discussed steps underway to look at the possibility of using decommissioned military facilities on the west coast as export terminals for our coal.\u00a0 Click here to read more about the Coal Caucus\u2019 Accomplishments: https://goo.gl/RYQv4B\n-\u00a0 \u00a0I applaud the State Department for announcing its intention to withdraw from The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).\u00a0 UNESCO has long been a haven for anti-semitism and anti-Israel bias at the UN and the Trump administration was right to withdraw the United States from membership.\u00a0\n-\u00a0 \u00a0 I applaud President Donald Trump\u2019s executive order that directs federal agencies to allow the sale of health insurance plans across state lines. Congress needs to repeal and replace the harmful and disastrous Obamacare. Obamacare resulted in high premiums, less choice for consumers, and lower quality for care, folks in Wyoming deserve better and President Trump\u2019s executive order is headed in that direction.\n-\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0On Friday, I participated in the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources legislative hearing for the ONSHORE Act. This bill promotes domestic energy independence by handing power back to the states to manage the development and production of oil and gas on federal lands. A part of the ONSHORE Act is the State Revenue Protection Act, a bill I introduced this year to give Wyoming back the two percent of royalties the federal government has been withholding from our state. These funds are crucial to communities across Wyoming and to our state budget.\u00a0 To read more about the hearing click here: https://goo.gl/gn1erP\n Constituent Visits \nIt was an honor to speak and take a selfie with this year\u2019s Rumsfeld Foundation fellows this week. It was great to get a chance to talk with bright minds from across the globe from Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.\nI want to thank the Wyoming Coordinator for the National Day of Prayer Task Force from Laramie, Gina Gibson and Chief Operations Officer for the National Day of Prayer Task Force Lisa Crump, and Gwen Bradley for stopping by the office this week. It was a pleasure getting the chance to speak with you.\nIt was a pleasure to meet and visit with Johnson County GOP Committee Chairwoman Marilyn Connolly, Carolyn Fox, Jayne Sullivan, and Blake Sullivan from Buffalo, Wyoming. Thank you for stopping by.\n Around Town \nI had a great time speaking at the Greater Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce for over 250 business partners about tax reform, healthcare reform, military awareness, and my continual effort to fight for the needs F.E. Warren Air Force Base. Click here to read more: https://goo.gl/BM8jd8\nLast weekend I got the chance to visit Camp Guernsey. I took part in a windshield tour and was able to tour the simulator building and training ranges. I was also able to meet and speak with the Cadets from the Wyoming Cowboy Challenge Academy, a program that provides a safe, structured, and educational environment for at-risk teens to gain life skills to succeed and become productive Wyoming citizens.\nIt was also an honor to be a part of Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan F. Dryer's promotion ceremony at Camp Guernsey. Lt. Col. Dryer is a highly decorated member of the armed services who served overseas in Germany and led combat missions in both Baghdad and Afghanistan. I want to thank him and his family for their service in the United States Military.\u00a0\n The Local Literary\u00a0 \nRead more about my visit and speech at the Greater Cheyenne Chamber of Congress.\n\u201cCongressman Cheney serves on the Armed Services Committee and speaking with Partners of the Greater Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce today affirmed her resolve to continue to fight in Washington for the needs of F.E. Warren Air Force Base, local military and the people of Cheyenne and Wyoming.\u00a0\u00a0Cheney also expressed her pride regarding the cooperation of Senators Enzi and Barrasso. She further identified that Wyoming is unlike most States because of their collaborations.\nCheney also relayed that there is room for Tax Reform among bi-partisan members to actually help the middle-class.\u00a0\u00a0The new reform would change the current seven-tier tax bracket to a three tier bracket and lower corporate tax to 20%.\u201d\nClick here to read the full article: https://goo.gl/UMxQLc", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://cheney.house.gov/media/newsletters/congressman-cheneys-october-13th-newsletter"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4447150751948357, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}