{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.lummis.senate.gov/press-releases/lummis-slams-u-s-fish-and-wildlife-services-anti-wyoming-agenda/", "Lummis Slams U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service\u2019s Anti-Wyoming Agenda", "2024-06-12", "2024", "2024-06", "Republican", "Senate", "WY", "Cynthia M. Lummis", "L000571", "www.lummis.senate.gov", "lummis", "https://www.lummis.senate.gov/press-releases/page/", "scraper", "Washington, D.C.\u2014 U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) grilled U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Director Martha Williams during an Environmental and Public Works (EPW) Committee hearing on the agency\u2019s failure to respond to Wyoming\u2019s grizzly bear delisting petition and its blatant overreach on wolf management.\n\nDuring her time, Lummis questioned Director Williams about the agency\u2019s unlawful delay in responding to the State of Wyoming\u2019s petition to establish grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem as a distinct population segment and remove it from the endangered species list.\n\n\u201cYou said you will follow the law and the science, but let\u2019s talk about grizzly delisting because you\u2019re doing neither. In January 2022, two and a half years ago, the state of Wyoming filed a petition with Fish and Wildlife Services to establish grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem as a distinct population segment that is neither threatened nor endangered and to remove it from the endangered species list,\u201d said Lummis. \u201cBy law, your agency is required to make a determination within 12 months of receiving the application. We are now two and a half years out from when the petition was submitted and your agency has stated you won\u2019t have a decision until July. Further, the science established by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decades ago proves that the grizzly has recovered and is way over population criteria.\u201d\n\nLummis also questioned the wisdom of the agency\u2019s hiring of a third-party \u201cmediator\u201d to discuss how wolves and people can coexist while simultaneously establishing a \u201cNational Recovery Plan\u201d for wolves already under state jurisdiction.\n\nLast month, Senator Lummis led Senators Pete Ricketts (R-NE) and Dan Sullivan (R-AK) in introducing Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolutions to overturn the Biden administration\u2019s reversal of key reforms to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) by the Trump administration that increased stakeholder engagement, defined critical habitat and ensured species recovery plans were effective.\n\nFor video of Lummis during the committee hearing, click here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:24:47Z"]], "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.lummis.senate.gov/press-releases/lummis-slams-u-s-fish-and-wildlife-services-anti-wyoming-agenda/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5836842358112335, "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"}