{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.barrasso.senate.gov/barrasso-were-one-step-closer-to-reversing-biden-era-buffalo-rmpa/", "Barrasso: We\u2019re One Step Closer to Reversing Biden-Era Buffalo RMPA", "2025-11-19", "2025", "2025-11", "Republican", "Senate", "WY", "John Barrasso", "B001261", "www.barrasso.senate.gov", "barrasso", "https://www.barrasso.senate.gov/newsroom/news-releases/", "scraper", "\u201cThis week, the Senate must reverse another one of the many bad Joe Biden runaway regulations. The one we\u2019re repealing today targeted affordable, reliable, and abundant American energy. That\u2019s proof that Republicans are getting America back on track.\u201d\n\nClick here to watch Sen. Barrasso\u2019s remarks\n\nWASHINGTON, D.C.\u2013 U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Senate Majority Whip, today spoke on the Senate Floor highlighting the Wyoming delegation\u2019s efforts to repeal the Biden administration\u2019s Buffalo Resource Management Plan Amendment (RMPA). The Buffalo RMPA prohibited future coal leasing in the Powder River Basin.\n\nBarrasso also recognized President Trump and Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary Doug Burgum for their commitment to making America energy dominant by investing in clean, abundant, and affordable Wyoming coal.\n\nSen. Barrasso\u2019s remarks:\n\n\u201cToday, the United States Senate will take the first steps to undo a very harmful piece of the previous administration\u2019s reckless and radical barrage of runaway regulations.\n\n\u201cAstonishingly, last year, the Biden administration finalized a rule that prohibited new coal leasing in the Powder River Basin in my home state of Wyoming.\n\n\u201cThe idea was to force Wyoming to say goodbye to producing energy that is actually affordable, available, reliable, and abundant right here in America.\n\n\u201cThe Powder River Basin supplies about 45 percent of our nation\u2019s coal.\n\n\u201cWyoming is America\u2019s leading producer of coal.\n\n\u201cCutting off access to one of our strongest resources not only kills Wyoming jobs, it attacks Wyoming\u2019s economic lifeblood.\n\n\u201cAnd, of course, it surrenders America\u2019s greatest economic advantage, which is American energy.\n\n\u201c Now, I\u2019m very, very grateful to my colleague Senator Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming.\n\n\u201cShe has led the charge in the Senate to overturn this Joe Biden abuse of power.\n\n\u201cAnd, she did it using the Congressional Review Act.\n\n\u201cI also want to thank our Congresswoman Harriet Hageman.\n\n\u201cShe led this effort in the House of Representatives and last night this CRA passed that chamber.\n\n\u201cAnd, we will address it today.\n\n\u201cI urge all of my colleagues to support this resolution, right here today, on the Senate Floor.\n\n\u201cAnd, I commend President Trump and Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, for their strong support for Wyoming coal.\n\n\u201cBoth President Trump and Secretary Burgum understand that national security starts with energy security.\n\n\u201cAnd, that affordability starts with affordable American energy.\n\n\u201cThat\u2019s why the Trump administration is investing in clean American coal.\n\n\u201cAnd, that\u2019s Wyoming coal.\n\n\u201cThis week, the Senate must reverse another one of the many bad Joe Biden runaway regulations.\n\n\u201cThe one we\u2019re repealing today targeted affordable, reliable, and abundant American energy.\n\n\u201cThat\u2019s proof that Republicans are getting America back on track.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:52:45Z"]], "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://www.barrasso.senate.gov/barrasso-were-one-step-closer-to-reversing-biden-era-buffalo-rmpa/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6993377357721329, "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"}