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The Senate Western Caucus (SWC) is made up of Senators from Western and rural states who are committed to upholding the fundamental principles of the West. Western Republicans on both sides of Capitol Hill are unified behind a Western approach to solving America's problems.

Senate Western Caucus Membership

Senator John Barrasso (R-WY)
Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO)
Senator John Boozman (R-AR)
Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK)
Senator John Cornyn (R-TX)
Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID)
Senator Mike Enzi (R-WY)
Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
Senator Dean Heller (R-NV)
Senator John Hoeven (R-ND)
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX)
Senator Mike Johanns (R-NE)
Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ)
Senator Mike Lee (R-UT)
Senator John McCain (R-AZ)
Senator Jerry Moran (R-KS)
Senator Jim Risch (R-ID)
Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS)
Senator John Thune (R-SD)
Senator David Vitter (R-LA)
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Congressional and Senate Western Caucuses Weekly Address – Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID)

Crapo: “The federal government has lost its way, because if it can target the Sacketts it can do the same to anyone.”


October 21, 2011


WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, Senate Western Caucus member Mike Crapo (R-ID) delivered the Senate and Congressional Western Caucuses weekly address.  In his remarks, Senator Crapo spoke about Mike and Chantell Sackett, a couple from north Idaho who were impacted by the Environmental Protection Agency’s extreme redtape.   
 
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Excerpts include:

“The EPA and other federal agencies seemed more interested in forcing compliance than giving any consideration to private property rights, individual rights, basic decency or common sense. 

“The Sacketts are like any other honest, hardworking family, but their lives have been turned upside down because a federal agency was more interested in beating them into submission than doing the right thing.

“The federal government has lost its way, because if it can target the Sacketts it can do the same to anyone.

“We must reign in the federal government, but we need the help of ordinary people to do so.  To those of you watching – call your senators and your congressmen, and tell them to step up and hold the government accountable. 

“Our country’s future depends on stopping this gross overreach of executive authority and restoring individual rights, private property rights and, most of all, good, honest government to its rightful place.”

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October 2011 Senate Western Caucus
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