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Is anyone watching? CHEYENNE -- Wyoming Republicans gather today at county conventions to help select their party's presidential nominee.Will anybody care?While Democrat Barack Obama and Republican Mike Huckabee generated lots of attention from victories at Thursday's Iowa caucuses, the same is not likely to happen for the winner in Wyoming.Wyoming has barely cracked the consciousness of national news reporters and pundits who have talked ceaselessly about Iowa and already are focused on New Hampshire's Tuesday primary. 
Wyoming to Hold Overlooked GOP Caucus Before New Hampshire CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Don’t forget about Wyoming.It’s been overlooked in the hoopla surrounding Thursday’s Iowa caucuses and next week’s New Hampshire primary, but Wyoming Republicans will caucus Saturday and choose delegates to the national convention in September.Candidates have paid little attention to the state, though.Only Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter have passed through since September.“Yes, there have been some appearances by the candidates in this state that otherwise wouldn’t have occurred this early in the process,” said Jim King, who teaches political science at the University of Wyoming. “But candidates are where the media are — in Iowa and New Hampshire.”
Wyoming GOP Selects Delegates CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming Republicans choose 12 delegates Saturday to the GOP national convention in August, an attempt to have a brief moment in the political spotlight by weighing in early in the selection of a presidential nominee.Coming two days after the Iowa caucuses and three days before the New Hampshire primary, the early date of the Wyoming GOP county conventions was intended to draw candidates' attention to Wyoming, but has had only modest results.
Candidate no-shows disappoint Wyoming GOP CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The executive director of the Wyoming Republican Party says she's disappointed that presidential candidates focused on the Iowa caucuses and jetted off to New Hampshire without swinging out to Wyoming in between."Wyoming's been a bit overlooked," Amy Larimer said Friday.Because the Iowa caucuses are a straw poll — no delegates actually are chosen until later — Wyoming's Republicans will choose the first 12 national convention delegates on Saturday.But none of the candidates has been to Wyoming for at least a month."I'm kind of surprised that they're working on New Hampshire," Larimer said. "We have more delegates than New Hampshire does. Normally we would have had 28 and they would have 24, so we have 14 and they have 12 — it's two more delegates here."
Barrasso: No licenses for illegals JACKSON -- U.S. Sen. John Barrasso introduced legislation Tuesday that would discourage states from issuing driver's licenses to illegal immigrants by withholding 10 percent of their federal highway funds.Barrasso said people who enter and live in the United States illegally should not be issued state driver's licenses, citing concerns for national security as a main reason."It seems pretty simple to me," Barrasso, R-Wyo., said in a release. "We won't truly be serious about securing our borders and stopping illegal immigration until we stop the practice of issuing driver's licenses to the very individuals who are breaking our laws."Although Wyoming does not issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, the issue has come to the forefront of discussions in Jackson, where the immigrant population is estimated at about 20 percent of the total population.
Enzi statement regarding Cubin’s plans Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., thanked U.S. Rep. Barbara Cubin, R-Wyo., for her long years of service to Wyoming. Cubin announced today that she does not plan to seek re-election.Wyoming's senior senator made the following comments:"I thank Barbara for her years of service - not just in the United States House of Representatives, but in the Wyoming Legislature as well. She and I have been at this a long time. We were elected to the Wyoming House at the same time. We served on some of the same committees. We served in the Wyoming Senate together. She was elected to Congress and served two years when Sen. Simpson announced his retirement. She was one of the first to call me and suggest I run. I had suggested she run."Barbara has been an important part of the Wyoming team. Everything we've passed on the Senate side , she has gotten through the House. On the Senate side we have not always been able to finish what she has started. The Senate is very accurately referred to sometimes as the cooling saucer of legislation.
Congresswoman Barbara Cubin tells about her trip to Iraq Last month, I had the privilege of traveling to Iraq to visit the incredible men and women serving in the United States military. It was a profound experience that left me with a deep sense of gratitude, pride and hope.While in Iraq, I experienced the harshness of the circumstances under which our soldiers are living. Being in a war zone is an almost surreal experience. Imagine anything you have ever seen on television, in the movies or in newspapers depicting war — being on the ground in a war zone in Baghdad and Balad is incredibly more dramatic and intense.I traveled with four other Members of Congress. We rode for hours on C-130 planes, strapped to the same uncomfortable seats in which our military men and women travel into war. We slept in military beds, ate in chow halls and in Baghdad traveled through a “red zone” (an unsafe, unsecured area) in humvees, all the while wearing approximately 30 pounds of heavy protective armor.
Panel looks at I-80 tolls CHEYENNE -- A legislative committee is exploring the concept of imposing toll fees on Interstate 80 truck traffic to help pay for escalating highway maintenance costs.The Joint Transportation, Highways and Military Affairs Interim Committee Wednesday asked state transportation officials to determine whether the federal government would allow tolling on I-80, and how much revenue it might generate.If the concept proves feasible, the committee will ask for an in-depth study on tolling when the full Legislature meets in February.We want to know the cost of the study and where the feds are on this, said Sen. Michael Von Flatern, R-Gillette.Nancy Robertson, co-owner of Robertson Transportation in Evanston, called the idea of tolls on I-80 ridiculous.
After 100 days, Barrasso makes sure to stay close to roots WASHINGTON, D.C. -- When he was appointed to replace the late Craig Thomas in June, Sen. John Barrasso made a commitment to return to Wyoming often, to check the pulse of the people he'd be representing for the next 2 1/2 years.The orthopedic surgeon has made good on his promise, returning to Wyoming every weekend and spent almost all of August, the Senate's summer recess, hosting town meetings around the state. Sixty-nine of his first 100 days were spent in the state, his office said.This past weekend, he went to a meeting of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association's Public Lands Council in Jackson, attended a Wyoming Health Fair in Lovell, toured the Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area with a county commissioner and a state legislator, went to Riverton and then on to Casper, he said."I promised a town meeting in each of the 23 counties before Labor Day and in fact I had 30 town meetings before Labor Day," he said.
Enzi offers way forward on children’s health care bill Washington, D.C. - Stepping between the President and Congressional Democrats, U.S. Senator Mike Enzi, the top Republican on the Senate Health Committee, and a group of GOP senators plan to offer their own "workable, realistic, inclusive" children’s health care package."Poor children need health insurance. The State Children’s Insurance Program provides it to them. Let’s renew this program first and afterward continue the debate about how best to help adults get health care coverage," Enzi said. "This bill would provide federal funding for children in need and require that the money actually be spent on children from families with lower incomes. We focus our bill only on needy children to ensure that all eligible children under the age of 19 have access to health insurance. I support the President’s veto of the Congressional Democratic plan because it has lost focus of what the bill should do. I believe I have some colleagues on the other side of the aisle in both the Senate and the House who see how unproductive a political stalemate like this can be for them and for us, but more importantly how it could negatively impact the children. If we are willing to suspend the politicking, even briefly, then I believe we could bring the President in and get a bill to him he would sign."
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