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  1. Tom Mattimoreposted toCynthia Lummis
    Please stand for fiscal sanity tonite and Friday you will be under a lot of pressure. I would rather see us go over the clif then saddle my great grandnieces with unending debt. I heard you on the radio twice this week do not let us down and do not surrender.
    God be with you
  2. Kathy Tompkins shared a link.
    Most gun enthusiasts say gun control 'starts' at home and how parents bring up their children. I agree with them 100%. But look at this ad and Bushmaster's man-card campaign. It was developed by so called responsible adults on Madison Avenu...e and in the Bushmaster corporate meeting rooms. These money hungry, crazy people are right at the head of the pack when it comes to demoralizing our civilization. Along with weak to non existent gun laws, how the hell can parents do it on their own. Tell your reps to speak up or pack up. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/emma-gray/bushmaster-rifle-ad-masculinity-gun-violence-newtown-adam-lanza_b_2317924.htmlSee More
  3. Colleen Andersonposted toCynthia Lummis
    Please reject Plan B. Stand firm..Thanks Cynthia for the job you do for us
  4. Please do not let these laws go through against guns perhaps arming one or two of the school staff would be more affective than making weapons illegal...making drugs illegal sure as hell didn't stop them..bit to mention we have had enough of or rights taken away.
  5. Marilyn Connollyposted toCynthia Lummis
    I agree with not giving President Obama debt ceiling priviledges. I don't believe the Constitution intended this. Good Job
  6. Marion Blackposted toCynthia Lummis
    You do a great job & Bob & I pray for your daily.
    Marion Black
  7. Now is the time to pass a balanced plan to end deficit spending. While sequester cuts will hurt our military too much we still need to reduce spending by a trillion dollars a year. We need revenues and cuts. I favor the President's plan.
  8. MESSAGE SENT TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE KNESSET AND DIRECTED TO EACH OF US

    My Dearest Brothers and Sisters,

    There is much strife and seeming complexity regarding peace and brotherhood among all of us in the world. There are many, who believe they have the right answer and are militant to impose their “right” answer on all. They seem to forget the earliest message of our holy scriptures, whether the K...oran, the Bible or the Thora, namely that each of us, within our hearts, have been provided with the spirit and love of the Father of us all. This was revealed to our common earthly father, Adam, who understood this in his heart before the writing of any scripture. Each of us have access to this fundamental truth, whether Muslim, Christian, Jew and also our fellow human beings, who have not had the good and fortunate access to the teachings. When we pray, we pray to our Father, present and living within in hearts of each of us. The secret to the peace and brotherhood we all yearn for is to see the presence of our Father in each of us and to love each other as our Father loves us. Within this context, the actions required to address the problems of our contemporary times will not seem insurmountable.

    “We have sent by inspiration to you as We commended to Abraham, Moses and Jesus, namely that you should be steadfast in religion and make no divisions therein… Allah is our Lord and your Lord… there is no contention between us and you. Allah will bring us together, and to Him is our Homecoming.” (Sura 42.13 - 15)

    My access to our Father is through the Christian teaching, neither less nor more important than the teachings of Abraham or Mohammad. It is the Christmas season, a time when Christians celebrate the love of the Father for and within us all. I give you the following teaching of the Apostle Paul and invite you, whether Muslim, Christian, Jew or a brother seeking access to our Father, to live this teaching within your life:

    “If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

    Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”

    From Love and Brotherhood,
    Erik Hesse
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  9. OUR COPUNTRY CAN NOT AFFORD TO ALLOW OBOMA TO RAISE TAXES OR SPEND ANY MORE MONEY THE WAY HE HAS, . FREEZE HIM OUT BY HOLDING FAST. DON'T WORRY ABOUT HIM BLAMING THE REPUBS FOR BEING FERM. STAND YOUR GROUND !!!
  10. Diana Sandersposted toCynthia Lummis
    Also do you trust this Pesident to hold up his end of the bargining?
    He'll get the tax increases and put off any spending cuts and then be back for more taxes!!
  11. Diana Sandersposted toCynthia Lummis
    Please do not vote for "Plan B' I would rather we go off thre "cliff" and deal with it now instead of passing the problem off to my grandson. Our grandchildren are going to have a tough time anyway and we need to take the pain as we, not they, who have created this problem.
  12. Julia Woodwardposted toCynthia Lummis
    we are on a fixed income and in Wyoming there are many people like us.We can not take a tax increase,to loose any money from our income would hurt us.We would have to give up something,food,meds.,gas, something would have to go.Please keep people like us in your thoughts when you vote on policys.
  13. Please don't vote for tax increases, increase of the 16.3 Trillion dollar debt, an increase in spending, and a gun ban. No matter what the Democrats, who don't keep their promises, promise.
  14. We have got to stop the spending. How does anyone doing anything when Obama won't give any. It seems like it is his way or no way. The Democrates in the Senate are the same way,
  15. As a former Republican and current Independent, I will respond to your request for input. We Americans got ourselves into this mess (the rich, the middle class, the poor, the young, the old, the men, the women). We as a nation, and personally, had been living beyond our means while financing fruitless wars on two fronts. Thus, each group will have to sacrifice to begin a real and ongoing recov...ery. This will take time, patience, and a spirit of unity as a nation. Are we up to this? I hope so but am skeptical because of the rigid and narrow stands taken by so many of us. It's time to think past our own narrow interests and work together for a common cause or we will go down in history as a once shining city that slid down the hill.

    Judy Turner
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  16. Our country is broke, our country wants to steal though inflation, increasing taxes, death tax, health care, and minimum wage laws. The only way they can do this is take away peoples god given rights. They must keep stealing more and more. A true tyrannical government. Let's not put more cards up and make the house higher, when the house fails apart the further we will all fall. Cut spending, cut taxes, re balance, or keep stacking cards of pain and suffering. Wake-up.
  17. You mention "horrific events in Casper on Nov 30.
    Are you aware of the "horrific events" in Conn. ? How about a line of condolence or something.
  18. Cynthia; I believe if the Democrats won't agree to positive spending cuts, we should go over the cliff to get automatic spending cuts. Raising revenue is a small part of the debt, the real savings is to reduce spending. I also believe the house has a big wild card to play by not raising the debt ceiling, that will get Obama's attention. Thank You, Larry Fransen
  19. Mary Michaudposted toCynthia Lummis
    I put this on your survey but I wanted to repeat it here so it actually gets read:

    Cut the damn spending. Places that can easily take massive spending cuts include Defense (BUT NOT SOLDIERS' WAGES) and Education (how do we spend that much anyway?). Also, you people on the hill should be ashamed of yourselves for talking about cutting Social Security while not even considering taking wage cuts yourselves. Take a lesson from the parable about the king who took the sole lamb from a poor man to feed his guests instead of offering one from his multitude of flocks, and learn how to really, effectively and honorably budget.
  20. Unless the rich in this country with incomes over $250,000 pay their fair share, I hope we go over the cliff! I am sick and tired of you politicians speaking for the people as if we all agree to this insanity. If you vote against it I will never support unless you are running for dog catcher of Laramie County!
  21. Keep up the fight to cut spending. I think the speaker has to go.
  22. Brodie Farquharposted toCynthia Lummis
    I looked at your so-called survey. It is grossly biased in design and wording, but I didn't expect anything else from you.
  23. Diana Sandersposted toCynthia Lummis
    Vote the Speaker OUT!!
  24. Kathy Tompkins shared a link.
    Please read and respond Representative Lummis. Thanks and hopefully we can prevent these horrific acts in the future. But we need voices and and solutions.

    Last updated April 17, 2012

    In our publication Gun Laws Matter 2012: Understandin...g the Link Between Weak Laws and Gun Violence, the Law Center ranked each state based on a review of state laws in 29 different firearms-related policy areas. Wyoming ranked 44th out of 50 – having some of the worst gun violence prevention laws nationwide.

    Among other things, Wyoming does not:

    Require a background check prior to the transfer of a firearm between unlicensed individuals;
    Require firearms dealers to obtain a state license;
    Regulate the transfer or possession of assault weapons, 50 caliber rifles, or large capacity ammunition magazines;
    Require gun owners to obtain a license, register their firearms, or report lost or stolen firearms;
    Require the reporting of mentally ill individuals to the database used for firearm purchaser background checks;
    Limit the number of firearms that may be purchased at one time;
    Impose a waiting period prior to purchase of a firearm;
    Regulate unsafe handguns (“junk guns” or “Saturday night specials”);
    Significantly regulate ammunition; or
    Allow local governments to regulate firearms.

    In addition, in 2011, Wyoming became the fourth state in the nation to allow private citizens to carry concealed firearms in public without a license or permit.

    In 2009, Wyoming had the highest rate of gun deaths per capita among the states. 96 people died from firearm-related injuries in Wyoming in that year. In addition, based on data published by Mayors Against Illegal Guns, in 2009, Wyoming supplied the 12th highest number of crime guns to other states per capita, and the state exports crime guns at more than three times the rate at which it imports them.
    http://smartgunlaws.org/gun-laws-matter-2012-understanding-the-link-between-weak-laws-and-gun-violence/
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  25. It is absolutely time for there to be legislation for common sense in regard to the assault weapon issue. The citizens will be watching closely for responsible legislative action.
  26. Sharon Fey-Guerneyposted toCynthia Lummis
    It's time to do something now regarding gun violence. A survey of NRA members even agree there are a number of very easily doable things that could help. At the very LEAST, listen to these suggestions and take action. The type of violence that is becoming commonplace across this nation is unacceptable.
  27. Jansen Siplon-Curry shared a link.
    Ms. Lummis,

    Please support the refundable adoption tax credit by becoming a cosponsor of S.3616/H.R. 4373. This is a crucial financial issue in the lives of many Wyoming families that have made the loving decision to adopt or plan to adopt in the future.


    http://adoptiontaxcreditdotorg.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/atc-faq-handout.pdf
  28. Juanita Colucciposted toCynthia Lummis
    Please, Strike the Monsanto riders from the Farm Bill and from the Agriculture Appropriations Bill. Monsanto should not be above the law.
  29. John Phillipsposted toCynthia Lummis
    Ms. Lummis,
    I would not only blame the President for his inflexibility regarding the fiscal cliff, but I would blame you as well for holding the citizens of the United States hostage to your ideology. We in the rest of the country don't know nor care about you. You and others like you, as well as the closed minded political officials on the other side of the aisle will and should carry the blame. Get off of your high horse and get something done in Washington. We don't want to pay for your ideals as we go over the fiscal cliff.
  30. Leslie Pattenposted toCynthia Lummis
    NYT today "Representative Cynthia M. Lummis, Republican of Wyoming, said she would rather see the nation go over the “fiscal cliff” "

    Irresponsible governing...
  31. William Harasym shared a link.
    Hey Cynthia Lummis, John Barrasso, Mike Enzi, USFWS and Gov. Matt Mead, Read WildEarth Guardians' report, “Northern Rocky Mountain Wolves: A Public Policy Process Failure,” which dispels the myth that too many livestock and elk are killed by wolves.
  32. Nancy Rohrposted toCynthia Lummis
    I want you to understand how much the voters want to change the current tax structure. I firmly believe that returning to higher tax rates for those making $250,000 or more is absolutely necessary. And so must others, given the broad support President Obama received in the recent election. Lowering taxes on the wealthy has not benefited our nation’s economy. Although returning the tax burde...n to the way it was when George W. Bush took office would help, I’d really like to see it return to the way it was when Reagan was in office.

    Thank you for listening to me: someone struggling to stay in the middle class.

    “There is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.”
    Justice Felix Frankfurter
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  33. Representative Lummis,
    I am one of your constituents, and I am begging you to be a leader among Republicans and begin to make some compromises on taxes and spending during the fiscal cliff debate. According to a poll conducted by the Univer...sity of Wyoming, Wyoming residents believe that taxes should be raised on the rich, and many agree that this will make our tax system more fair. If you plan to represent your constituents, you must listen to this poll.

    Also, I agree that spending must be reduced in order to reduce the deficit, but we need to do it in a fair, all-of-the-above manner, instead of just hitting so-called entitlements or benefits programs for the poor. We absolutely need to cut defense spending; our current level of defense spending is not only unsustainable, but it is absurd. Please please listen to us, and do the right thing, not just the right-wing thing. You would go down in history if you took up the mantle of leadership in Washington and worked for compromise.
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  34. I am one of your constituents and I want you to sign Discharge Petition 0006 so the House will vote on ending the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% in our country. Please set aside partisan-ship and do the right thing for the people in your state.
  35. Jane Sandersonposted toCynthia Lummis
    Please don't let anyone screw around with my social security and Medicare. Eliminating cost of living for social security and cutting Medicare would be disastrous for older people on fixed incomes. I have voted Republican all my life but will be voting Democrat if you cut benefits to the poorest and most dependant people in this country. We worked hard all these years and deserve what was we belie...ved we could live on in our old age. We aren't able to work to make more income to suppliment your cuts. I believe in a means test for social security, Medicare,and disability payments. I also believe the rich should pay higher taxes. They are blessed to live in a country where they are able to become rich and they should pay more than their fair share of taxes. See More
  36. Alison Zitkoposted toCynthia Lummis
    Please keep up the good work speaking the truth about our economy and standing up to President. Thank you, Congressman Lummis.
  37. You are not my representative but since you are on appropriations I am writing you because you might listen and perhaps be able to take action.

    The President is out doing his campaigning to make it look like the Republicans are responsible for there being no deal. There are ads also indicating the same. While many people realize this is not true, it is obvious by the results of the past election... many do not get it.

    Why haven't there been any campaigning and ads done by the Republican Party? You all have the email addresses for your constituency so why not provide all of them with the House response with $'s & compare it to the President's ridiculous proposal. Further, don't you dare give him the blank checkbook he wants, he has already cost America too much.

    Also, I would encourage the House to exercise its ability to close the pocketbook for the President. No budget, the House can decide if the excessive spending is needed. Tighten the reins & the screws.

    As long as you are going to get the blame for everything the President manipulates you guys into, go all out & stop his wasteful spending. We can't bailout anyone else (cities, counties, states, etc.)

    As for cuts, there is so much that could be cut out of the budget before you hit social security, medicare, defense. Not that there isn't some waste & fraud but personally things run much better if the Federal government sends the money to the States & they do it best for their citizens.

    Sorry I was so long & wordy but am so frustrated about so many things that need to be fixed & feel helpless as I watch our beautiful country fall so far from grace.
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  38. Margaret Rattenburyposted toCynthia Lummis
    #my2K: A $2,000 tax hike means the difference in one of my family members receiving a dental partial or going another ten years without. Do not let my taxes go up, but do allow taxes on those with incomes above $250,000 to be raised to pre-Bush levels. The wealthy need to pay taxes at the same rate as the middle class, and loop holes need to be closed.
  39. Why are you going home with such difficult and important problems to solved. We DO NOT NEED you in Wyoming --we need you raising taxes and cutting budgets in DC. Otherwise WYH did we elect you??
  40. When will the problem of spending to much be addressed??????
  41. Please consider my comment when you consider your vote on the current and ongoing financial crisis. We Americans got ourselves into this mess (the rich, the middle class, the poor, the young, the old, the men, the women). We as a nation, and many personally, had been living beyond our means while financing fruitless wars on two fronts. Thus, each group will have to sacrifice to begin a real and... ongoing recovery. This will take time, patience, and a spirit of unity as a nation. Are we up to this? I hope so but am skeptical because of the rigid and narrow stands taken by so many of us. It's time to think past our own narrow interests and work together for a common cause or we will go down in history as a once shining city that slid down the hill.

    Judy Turner
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  42. Please support House Resolution 819, requiring the White House to release documents related to drone strikes targeting US citizens abroad.
  43. could we help social security buy removing the cap on when we stop paying into this? your employer may not have to match after this but it could acumilate in a fund and help out this program. that way we wont loose it. or have it a pawn in this cliff that coming up. PLEASE as a citizrn of Wyoming DO NOT take any thing away from social security or nrdicare. you will be covered by insureance for the rest of your life but i an a dis abled wyoming citizen and can not afford to loose ant benifits. we will loose our house. my husbands chec just covers the morage and our few bills if we lose any part of that we will be living in our car.
  44. Disgusted with Washington.........all the posturing. Watching the news this morning and am ashamed of our government......both parties. Unable to get anything done. You are becoming a joke in the eyes of your own people and the rest of the world.
  45. Shaun Hatcher Kelleyposted toCynthia Lummis
    You guys want a cliff? Let's just go off the damn thing. If Republicans really want a showdown over taxing the rich fairly, we'll be happy to LAND on your asses at the bottom of this metaphorical cliff, and expose you all for the blue-blood sucking scumbags you really are. The American people will finally see and know their true enemies. You'll be one big, dead, decomposing elephant that we will be happy to cremate so that we will never have to deal with you again.

    Shaun Hatcher Kelley
    Laramie
  46. Donna Marsh Weaverposted toCynthia Lummis
    Please vote NO! on UNCRPD!
  47. Renee Hoffardposted toCynthia Lummis
    PLEASE VOTE "NO" ON UNCRPD!!!
  48. Kerri Aventposted toCynthia Lummis
    PLEASE VOTE "NO" TO UN CRPD!!!
  49. Kathleen Falconer-Finneganposted toCynthia Lummis
    With much thought, you were elected by the people of Wyoming and NOT by Grover Norquist. Pledges to this man or any person other than the people who elected mean nothing. Please work to avoid the fiscal cliff through compromise.
  50. William Harasym shared a link.
    CHEYENNE, Wyo. — By now, voters here are over the initial shock. The ranchers, businessmen and farmers across this deep-red state who knew, just knew that Americans would never re-elect a liberal tax-and-spender president have grudgingly ac...cepted the reality that voters did just that...

    ...That mentality of fierce independence is complicated by land and money. The government owns half the land in Wyoming, as national forest, parkland or other state land, and the natural resources here have long padded state coffers.

    A 2011 study by the Pew States Project found that Wyoming received more federal funds per resident than any other state, largely because of royalties from mining and drilling. That $3,757 per person went to health care, transportation, education and other government programs.

    But voters in Wyoming have little control in the management of those lands. Washington, they say, determines which lands are opened for drilling, the environmental reviews on oil drilling, whether wolves are a protected species or fair game for hunters. They see a portent in drilling plans proposed by the Interior Department that would close 1.6 million acres of federal land to oil-shale exploration.

    Middle-aged white men here bristled at the notion that they were now the Republican Party’s last constituency. Look at Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, they said, or at Gov. Susana Martinez of New Mexico; Mia Love, a black Mormon mayor in Utah; or Lynn Hutchings, a newly elected black state representative. But they said Republicans would need to talk differently about immigration, reproductive issues and income inequality if they wanted to win over voters outside places like this one.

    After all, as Buck Holmes, a county commissioner-elect here and self-described “sensible conservative” put it: “Not everyone thinks the same way as Wyoming conservatives do.”
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  51. William Harasym shared a link.
    "In Wyoming, Tradition of White People Complaining About Black People Alive and Well"

    In Wyoming, Conservatives Feeling Left Behind" is the headline on a report by the New York Times' Jack Healy (11/19/12) on how "since the election, a bla...nket of baffled worry has descended on conservatives here like early snow across the plains, deepening a sense that traditional, rural and overwhelmingly white states in the center of the country are losing touch with an increasingly diverse and urban American electorate.

    The publisher of a right-wing local paper "said the election vindicated conservative politicians and commentators who talked about the 47 percent of Americans who pay no income tax, about makers and takers. 'The parasites now outnumber the producers.'"

    Yet another of Healy's sources summed up "what he saw as the difference between conservative, self-reliant Wyoming and liberal precincts along the coasts and in cities. 'They think, "What can he do for me?" as opposed to what Kennedy said in the '60s, "What can I do for my country?"'"

    You get the picture: The "minority vote," aka the "urban vote," are "takers" and "parasites," unlike the "self-reliant," "traditional" folk in Wyoming. Did Healy mention that they're 86 percent white there? Yes, he did.

    Twenty paragraphs into this 24-graf story, Healy notes that this appraisal is "complicated" by the fact that, when it comes to federal spending, Wyoming is definitely in the "taker" category:

    A 2011 study by the Pew States Project found that Wyoming received more federal funds per resident than any other state, largely because of royalties from mining and drilling. That $3,757 per person went to healthcare, transportation, education and other government programs.

    With that and another paragraph on Wyoming's economic dependence on resource extraction from federal land, the story is roughly one part reality to 12 parts self-congratulatory race-baiting.
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  52. As someone in the 2% - raise my taxes! It means little to the 2% but so much to the 98%. Please VOTE TO EXTEND THE TAX CUTS FOR THE 98%
  53. The financial cliff is a result of Congress! The President's ideas for revenues and cuts are sound. Stop putting Norquist and the GOP ahead of the American people -- Are you so racist that you still subscribe to "any way but your way" --get over it he won and he's right.
  54. Rep. Lummis,
    I would like your opinion on H.R. 4089: Sportsmen’s Heritage Act of 2012.

    According to a letter from the Congressional Research service to Rep. Martin Heinrich:

    “The language [of this bill]could be construed as opening wilder...ness areas to virtually any activity related to hunting and fishing, even if otherwise inconsistent with wilderness values. Despite the Wilderness Act’s explicit ban on temporary and permanent roads, if H.R. 4089 were passed, roads arguably could be constructed in wilderness areas if they provided opportunity for hunting, fishing, and wildlife conservation. Off-road vehicles and other machines might be authorized under this provision, as well as additional commercially guided tours.”
    Source: http://www.eenews.net/assets/2012/04/16/document_pm_01.pdf

    If this analysis is correct, could you support a bill that could authorize such things as creating an ATV trail to the top of Cloud Peak in the Big Horns or a landing strip and lodge on the Stough Creek Lakes in the Popo Augie Wilderness?

    At age 62, I don’t have many more years of lugging a pack into these places, but I hope my grandchildren can still experience some part of the American West that remains untrammeled by machines and commercial enterprises.
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