Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Members of the Western Caucus released statements blasting the House Democratic Foreign Affairs Committee for passing a bill to prevent President Trump from withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement and denouncing the House Democratic Oversight and Reform Committee for seeking to prevent President Trump from setting up a Commission to conduct an independent review of the Fourth National Climate Assessment at a hearing featuring former Secretary of State John Kerry and former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel. Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Members of the Western Caucus released statements applauding the bipartisan passage of H.R. 2030, the "Colorado River Drought Contingency Plan Authorization Act." Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Members of the Senate and Congressional Western Caucus released statements applauding votes in the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources to advance the nominations of David Bernhardt to be the Secretary of the Interior, Susan Combs to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior and Aimee Kathryn Jorjani to be Chair of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation. Read more »

Members of the Senate and Congressional Western Caucus released statements applauding David Bernhardt's testimony at a Full Committee hearing before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on his nomination to be the next Secretary of the Interior. Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Members of the Western Caucus led the charge to defeat the disastrous Green New Deal and released several statements today following its defeat in the U.S. Senate. Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, members of the Western Caucus issued statements slamming U.S. District Court judge for the District of Columbia Rudolph Contreras' decision in the case of WildEarth Guardians v. Zinke which has halted responsible energy production and jobs on more than 300,000 acres of land in Wyoming. Read more »

Today, members of the Western Caucus issued statements applauding DOI and BLM for returning power to the States and overturning the Obama's sage-grouse land grab. Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, members of the Western Caucus released statements applauding the full recovery of the gray wolf and a proposed rule put forward by the Trump Administration to remove the gray wolf from the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife in the lower 48 states as a result of a full recovery of the species. Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, members of the Western Caucus and local stakeholders released statements calling out House Natural Resources Democrats on their Antiquities Act and land grab hearing. Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, members of the Western Caucus released statements applauding President Trump’s signing of a historic federal lands package into law in the form of S.47 Read more »