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Cynthia lummis.

• Republican Party

2021 - Present

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$14,410,011

November 3, 2020

Cheyenne East High School

University of Wyoming

University of Wyoming College of Law

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Cynthia Lummis ( Republican Party ) is a member of the U.S. Senate from Wyoming. She assumed office on January 3, 2021. Her current term ends on January 3, 2027.

Lummis ( Republican Party ) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Wyoming. She won in the general election on November 3, 2020 .

• 1 Biography
• 2.1 U.S. Senate
• 2.2.1 2015-2016
• 2.2.2 2013-2014
• 2.2.3 2011-2012
• 3.1 Key votes: 118th Congress, 2023
• 3.2 Key votes: Previous sessions of Congress
• 3.3 Key votes: 117th Congress, 2021-2023
• 3.4.1.1 Trade Act of 2015
• 3.4.1.2 Defense spending authorization
• 3.4.1.3 2016 Budget proposal
• 3.4.1.4 2015 budget
• 3.4.2.1 Iran nuclear deal
• 3.4.2.2 Export-Import Bank
• 3.4.3.1 USA FREEDOM Act of 2015
• 3.4.3.2 Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act
• 3.4.3.3 Cyber security
• 3.4.4 Immigration
• 3.5.1.1 NDAA
• 3.5.1.2 DHS Appropriations
• 3.5.1.3 Keystone Pipeline Amendment
• 3.5.1.4 CISPA (2013)
• 3.5.2.1 Farm bill
• 3.5.3.1 Government shutdown
• 3.5.4.1 Morton Memos Prohibition
• 3.5.5.1 Healthcare Reform Rules
• 3.5.6.1 Abortion
• 3.5.7.1 HR 676
• 3.6.1 Fiscal cliff
• 4.1 The Affordable Care Act
• 5.4.1 Republican debate
• 5.6 Full history
• 7 Notable endorsements
• 8.1 Electoral vote certification on January 6-7, 2021
• 9 Campaign finance summary
• 10.1 PGI: Change in net worth
• 10.2 PGI: Donation Concentration Metric
• 11.1 Like-minded colleagues
• 11.2 Ideology and leadership
• 11.3 Lifetime voting record
• 11.4 Congressional staff salaries
• 11.5.1 2013
• 11.5.2 2012
• 11.5.3 2011
• 11.6.1 2014
• 11.6.2 2013
• 12 Personal
• 13 See also
• 14 External links
• 15 Footnotes

Cynthia Lummis earned bachelor's degrees in animal science and biology and a J.D. from the University of Wyoming. Lummis graduated from Cheyenne East High School. [1] Lummis' career experience includes working as general counsel to former Wyoming Governor Jim Geringer, the director of the Wyoming Office of State Lands and Investments, and a law clerk with the Wyoming Supreme Court . [2]

Committee assignments

U.s. senate.

Lummis was assigned to the following committees: [Source]

• Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
• Subcommittee on Economic Policy
• Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection
• Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
• Communications, Media, and Broadband
• Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Data Security
• Space and Science
• Committee on Environment and Public Works
• Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Safety
• Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife , Ranking Member
• Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure
• Housing, Transportation, and Community Development
• Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection
• Securities, Insurance, and Investment
• Space and Science , Ranking Member
• Surface Transportation, Maritime, Freight, and Ports
• Tourism, Trade, and Export Promotion
• Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife , Ranking Member
• Transportation and Infrastructure

Lummis served on the following committees: [3]

• Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources
• Subcommittee on Water, Power, and Oceans
• Subcommittee on Federal Lands
• Subcommittee on Health Care, Benefits, and Administrative Rules
• Subcommittee on the Interior , Chairman

Lummis served on the following committees: [4] [5]

• Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Job Creation, and Regulatory Affairs
• Subcommittee on National Security, Homeland Defense and Foreign Operations
• Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation
• Subcommittee on Water and Power
• Subcommittee on Energy - Chair
• Subcommittee on Research and Science Education

Lummis was a member of the following House committees: [6]

• Subcommittee on Agriculture
• Subcommittee on the Interior and the Environment
• Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education

Ballotpedia monitors legislation that receives a vote and highlights the ones that we consider to be key to understanding where elected officials stand on the issues. To read more about how we identify key votes, click here .

Key votes: 118th Congress, 2023

The 118th United States Congress began on January 3, 2023, at which point Republicans held the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives (222-212), and Democrats held the majority in the U.S. Senate (51-49). Joe Biden (D) was the president and Kamala Harris (D) was the vice president. We identified the key votes below using Congress' top-viewed bills list and through marquee coverage of certain votes on Ballotpedia.

Key votes: Previous sessions of Congress

• 114th Congress

The first session of the 114th Congress enacted into law six out of the 2,616 introduced bills (0.2 percent). Comparatively, the 113th Congress had 1.3 percent of introduced bills enacted into law in the first session. In the second session, the 114th Congress enacted 133 out of 3,159 introduced bills (4.2 percent). Comparatively, the 113th Congress had 7.0 percent of introduced bills enacted into law in the second session. [34] [35] For more information pertaining to Lummis's voting record in the 114th Congress, please see the below sections. [36]

Economic and fiscal

Trade act of 2015.

Defense spending authorization

2016 Budget proposal

2015 budget, foreign affairs, iran nuclear deal, export-import bank, usa freedom act of 2015, pain-capable unborn child protection act, cyber security, immigration.

• 113th Congress

The second session of the 113th Congress enacted into law 224 out of the 3215 introduced bills (7 percent). Comparatively, the 112th Congress had 4.2 percent of introduced bills enacted into law in the second session. [80] For more information pertaining to Lummis's voting record in the 113th Congress, please see the below sections. [81]

National security

Dhs appropriations, keystone pipeline amendment, cispa (2013), 2014 budget, government shutdown, morton memos prohibition, healthcare reform rules, social issues, government affairs, previous congressional sessions, fiscal cliff, the affordable care act.

During a hearing on December 9, 2014, members of Congress questioned Jonathan Gruber's involvement with the Affordable Care Act. Lummis shared the story of her husband's death and the "real-life consequences" of Obamacare. [105]

"On October 24, the week before election, my husband went to sleep and never woke up. He had a massive heart attack in his sleep at age 65. A perfectly, by all accounts, healthy man. Come to find out, in a conversation with his physician after he died, he chose not to have one of the tests, the last tests, his doctor told him to have. This happened to coincide with the time that we were told that we were not covered by Obamacare. I'm not telling you that my husband died because of Obamacare. He died because he had a massive heart attack in his sleep. ...I want to suggest that regardless of what happened to me personally, that there have been so many glitches in the passage and implementation of Obamacare that have real-life consequences on peoples' lives. The so-called glibness that has been referenced today has direct consequences for real American people. So get over your damn glibness," Lummis said. [105]

Her full statement can be seen below:

See also:  United States Senate election in Wyoming, 2020

United States Senate election in Wyoming, 2020 (August 18 Republican primary)

United States Senate election in Wyoming, 2020 (August 18 Democratic primary)

General election

General election for u.s. senate wyoming.

Cynthia Lummis defeated Merav Ben-David in the general election for U.S. Senate Wyoming on November 3, 2020.

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for u.s. senate wyoming.

The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Wyoming on August 18, 2020.

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

• Chuck Jagoda (D)

Republican primary election

Republican primary for u.s. senate wyoming.

The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Wyoming on August 18, 2020.

• Rolland Holthus (R)
• Patrick Dotson (R)

Lummis did not seek re-election in 2016. [106]

Lummis won re-election to the U.S. House to represent Wyoming's at-Large District on November 4, 2014. Lummis defeated former U.S. Marine Jason Senteney in the Republican primary on August 19, 2014. [107]

Race background

Republican debate.

Lummis won re-election in 2012. She ran unopposed in the Republican primary and defeated Democrat Chris Henrichsen and Libertarian Richard Brubaker in the November general election. [108]

Full history

On November 4, 2008, Cynthia Lummis won election to the United States House . She defeated Gary Trauner (D) and W. David Herbert (L) in the general election. [110]

Campaign themes

Ballotpedia survey responses.

See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection

Cynthia Lummis did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.

Notable endorsements

This section displays endorsements this individual made in elections within Ballotpedia's coverage and endorsements scopes.

Noteworthy events

Electoral vote certification on january 6-7, 2021.

Congress convened a joint session on January 6-7, 2021, to count electoral votes by state and confirm the results of the 2020 presidential election . Lummis voted against certifying the electoral votes from Pennsylvania. The Senate rejected the objection by a vote of 7-92.

Campaign finance summary

Personal gain index.

The Personal Gain Index (U.S. Congress) is a two-part measurement that illustrates the extent to which members of the U.S. Congress have prospered during their tenure as public servants. It consists of two different metrics:

• Changes in Net Worth
• The Donation Concentration Metric

PGI: Change in net worth

Based on congressional financial disclosure forms and calculations made available by OpenSecrets.org , Lummis' net worth as of 2012 was estimated between $5,332,023 to $23,487,999. That averages to $14,410,011 , which is higher than the average net worth of Republican House members in 2012 of $7,614,097.96. Lummis ranked as the 39th most wealthy representative in 2012. [111] Between 2007 and 2012, Lummis' calculated net worth [112] decreased by an average of 15 percent per year. Between 2004 and 2012, the average annual percentage increase for a member of Congress was 15.4 percent. [113]

The data used to calculate changes in net worth may include changes resulting from assets gained through marriage, inheritance, changes in family estates and/or trusts, changes in family business ownership, and many other variables unrelated to a member's behavior in Congress.

PGI: Donation Concentration Metric

Filings required by the Federal Election Commission report on the industries that give to each candidate. Using campaign filings and information calculated by OpenSecrets.org , Ballotpedia calculated the percentage of donations by industry received by each incumbent over the course of his or her career (or 1989 and later, if elected prior to 1988). Lummis received the most donations from individuals and PACs employed by the Oil & Gas industry. Comparatively, the top industry employer in Wyoming's At-large Congressional District was Educational services, and health care and social assistance, according to a 2012 U.S. Census survey. [116]

From 2007-2014, 33.5 percent of Lummis' career contributions came from the top five industries as listed below. [117]

Like-minded colleagues

The website OpenCongress tracks the voting records of each member to determine with whom he or she votes most and least often. The results include a member from each party. [118]

Ideology and leadership

Based on an analysis of bill sponsorship by GovTrack , Lummis was a " far-right Republican ," as of July 21, 2014. [119] This was the same rating Lummis received in June 2013. [120]

Lifetime voting record

According to the website GovTrack, Lummis missed 129 of 4,997 roll call votes from January 2009 to September 2015. This amounted to 2.6 percent, which was higher than the median of 2.2 percent among representatives as of September 2015. [121]

Congressional staff salaries

The website Legistorm compiles staff salary information for members of Congress. Lummis paid her congressional staff a total of $1,015,627 in 2011. Overall, Wyoming ranked 6th in average salary for representative staff. The average U.S. House of Representatives congressional staff was paid $954,912.20 in fiscal year 2011. [122]

National Journal vote ratings

Each year National Journal publishes an analysis of how liberally or conservatively each member of Congress voted in the previous year. Click the link above for the full ratings of all members of Congress.

Lummis ranked 149th in the conservative rankings in 2013. [123]

Lummis was one of three members who ranked 120th in the conservative rankings in 2012. [124]

Lummis was one of two members of congress who ranked 126th in the conservative rankings in 2011. [125]

Voting with party

The website OpenCongress tracks how often members of Congress vote with the majority of the chamber caucus.

Lummis voted with the Republican Party 90.5 percent of the time, which ranked 204th among the 233 House Republican members as of July 2014. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many

Lummis voted with the Republican Party 94 percent of the time, which ranked 179th among the 234 House Republican members as of June 2013. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many

Note: Please contact us if the personal information below requires an update. One week before the 2014 election, Lummis' husband, Al Wiederspahn, died of a heart attack. She and their daughter, Annaliese, released the following statement: “Last night, my husband, Al, passed away peacefully in his sleep in our home in Cheyenne. Annaliese and I know that God has taken Al home to heaven, but right now our hearts are broken.” [105]

2020 Elections

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• ↑ U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk , "Committee Information," accessed February 20, 2015
• ↑ CQ.com , "House Committee Rosters for the 113th Congress," accessed March 3, 2013
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• ↑ Official House website , "Committees," accessed November 22, 2011
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• ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.6363 - Further Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act, 2024," accessed February 27, 2024
• ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.5860 - Continuing Appropriations Act, 2024 and Other Extensions Act," accessed February 27, 2024
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• ↑ Congress.gov , "H.J.Res.44 - Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives relating to "Factoring Criteria for Firearms with Attached 'Stabilizing Braces'"" accessed February 28, 2024
• ↑ Congress.gov , "H.J.Res.30 - Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Labor relating to 'Prudence and Loyalty in Selecting Plan Investments and Exercising Shareholder Rights'." accessed February 23, 2024
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• ↑ Congress.gov , "S.1605 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022," accessed April 15, 2022
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• ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.3755 - Women's Health Protection Act of 2021," accessed April 15, 2022
• ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.2471 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022," accessed January 20, 2023
• ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.8404 - Respect for Marriage Act," accessed January 20, 2023
• ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.6833 - Continuing Appropriations and Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023," accessed January 20, 2023
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• ↑ Congress.gov , "H.Res.24 - Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.," accessed April 15, 2022
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• ↑ Congressional Record , "Resume of Congressional Activity, Second Session of the 114th Congress," accessed January 5, 2017
• ↑ Congressional Record , "Resume of Congressional Activity, First Session of the One Hundred Fourteenth Congress," April 13, 2015
• ↑ Bloomberg Politics , "Three House Republicans Said to Be Punished Over Trade Vote," June 16, 2015
• ↑ New York Magazine , "The Trade Vote Reignited the War Within the House GOP," June 26, 2015
• ↑ Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives , "Final Vote Results for Roll Call 359," accessed July 17, 2015
• ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results for Roll Call 361," June 12, 2015
• ↑ Roll Call , "Deadline for TAA Do-Over Vote Extended to July 30 (Updated)," June 15, 2015
• ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results for Roll Call 362," June 12, 2015
• ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results for Roll Call 374," June 18, 2015
• ↑ Politico , "Trade turnaround: House backs new power for Obama," June 18, 2015
• ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results for Roll Call 388," June 24, 2015
• ↑ The Hill , "Obama signs trade bills," June 29, 2015
• ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results for Roll Call 239," accessed May 27, 2015
• ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R. 1735," accessed May 27, 2015
• ↑ The Hill , "Redone defense policy bill sails through House," accessed November 12, 2015
• ↑ Congress.gov , "S. 1356," accessed November 12, 2015
• ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results for Roll Call 618," accessed November 12, 2015
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• ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results for Roll Call 183," accessed May 5, 2015
• ↑ The Hill , "Republicans pass a budget, flexing power of majority," accessed May 5, 2015
• ↑ Congress.gov , "HR 1314 - Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015," accessed November 1, 2015
• ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results for Roll Call 579," accessed November 1, 2015
• ↑ Senate.gov , "On the Motion (Motion to Concur in the House Amendment to the Senate Amendment to H.R. 1314)," accessed November 1, 2015
• ↑ Congress.gov , "H.R.1191 - Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015," accessed May 16, 2015
• ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "Final Vote Results for Roll Call 226," accessed May 16, 2015
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• ↑ Clerk.House.gov , "HR 36," accessed May 16, 2015
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• ↑ Project Vote Smart , "HR 2217 - DHS Appropriations Act of 2014 - Voting Record," accessed September 16, 2013
• ↑ Project Vote Smart , "H Amdt 69 - Requires Threat Assessment of Pipeline Vulnerabilities to a Terrorist Attack - Voting Record," accessed September 16, 2013
• ↑ Project Vote Smart , "HR 624 - CISPA (2013) - Voting Record," accessed September 16, 2013
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• ↑ 105.0 105.1 105.2 Washington Post , "This was the most moving moment of the Gruber hearing," accessed December 10, 2014
• ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named retire
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• ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk , "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 4, 2008," accessed March 28, 2013
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• ↑ This figure represents the total percentage growth from either 2004 (if the member entered office in 2004 or earlier) or the member's first year in office (as noted in the chart below).
• ↑ This number was found by dividing each member's total net worth growth percentage by the number of years included in the calculation.
• ↑ This figure represents the total percentage growth divided by the number of years for which there are net worth figures for each member.
• ↑ This figure was calculated using median asset data from the Census Bureau. Please see the Congressional Net Worth data for Ballotpedia spreadsheet for more information on this calculation.
• ↑ Census.gov , "My Congressional District," accessed September 29, 2014
• ↑ OpenSecrets.org , "Rep. Cynthia Lummis," accessed September 29, 2014
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California Republican lawmaker attacks colleagues, gets booted from committee. Again.

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For the second time in as many months, Assemblyman Bill Essayli , R-Corona, has been removed from a major committee assignment.

Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, D-Hollister, earlier this week sent a letter to the chief clerk of the Assembly stating that, effective immediately, he was pulling Essayli from the Assembly Judiciary Committee — which reviews legislation with legal or constitutional ramifications — and placing him on the Assembly Aging and Long-Term Care Committee.

Neither Essayli nor Rivas responded to The Bee’s request for comment by deadline.

But in a series of posts on X about his removal, Essayli accused Democratic leadership of silencing him for fighting for his bill, Assembly Bill 2641 , that would lift the restriction on state law enforcement cooperating with federal immigration enforcement officials in cases where the subject of the investigation has been found guilty of a sexual offense against a minor.

“Last week Democrats silenced me for forcing a vote on the Floor to end sanctuary state protections for pedophiles. Today they are punishing me by stripping me of my seat on the Judiciary Committee. I will not be deterred by their threats and intimidation,” Essayli wrote in one post .

“It’s clear from their actions that my Democrat colleagues are more interested in removing me from a committee than they are removing pedophiles from California!” he wrote in another . Essayli was referring to the Democratic-controlled supermajority’s vote against discharging AB 2641 from the Assembly Public Safety Committee, where it had not received a hearing, onto the Assembly floor for a vote from the full body.

Replacing Essayli on the committee is Assemblyman Joe Patterson, R-Rocklin.

In an email statement, Patterson told The Bee, “I’m a fan of House Rules that allow the Republican Leader to choose which caucus members sit on what committees.”

Essayli has also excoriated his Democratic colleagues, at one point labeling Assemblywoman Pilar Schiavo, D-Santa Clarita, a “pedophile protector” for voting against discharging his bill.

The Republican legislator also went after Rivas on X for removing him from the committee assignment. In response to an X post from Rivas about former President Donald Trump’s felony criminal conviction on 34 counts, Essayli wrote : “Mr. Democracy here removed me from the Judiciary Committee just hours ago. We can all sleep better knowing Democrats are hard at work saving our democracy by jailing their political opponents, removing them from the ballot, and kicking them off committees.”

Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher, R-Yuba City, also publicly criticized Essayli’s removal in a post on X . He wrote that the decision “appears to be retaliation” for Essayli “engaging in passionate discourse over issues in the public interest.”

“I as Republican Leader was not consulted in this change and I condemn it in the strongest terms. We get to vote and people can publicly criticize that vote. It’s not a reason to remove a member from committee,” Gallagher wrote.

Though Rivas’ office did not respond to The Bee’s request for comment by deadline, Rivas spokesman Nick Miller told Politico that “venomous attacks and malignant lies against elected officials may seem innocuous. But in this day and age, they are truly dangerous.”

“The Speaker feels a personal responsibility to improve safety for all Californians, including those who serve, and there is zero tolerance for disinformation assaults against his colleagues, which can do real harm to members and their families,” Miller told Politico.

This marks the second time this year that a testy interaction between Essayli and his Democratic colleagues resulted in Essayli’s ejection from a committee assignment.

In April, after Essayli got into a heated exchange with Assembly Budget Committee Chair Jesse Gabriel, D-Encino, he was removed from that committee, according to Politico .

Essayli told Politico afterward that he was a “strong, critical voice in the budget process.”

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With the retirement of Sen. Maile S.L. Shimabukuro (Senate District 22, KoʻOlina, Nānākuli, Māʻili, Waiʻanae, Mākaha, Mākua) from the Hawaiʻi State Senate effective Friday, Senate President Ronald D. Kouchi (Senate District 8, Kauaʻi, Niʻihau) announced changes to the composition of Senate Standing Committees.

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