Lummis is the junior senator from Wyoming and is a Republican. She has served since Jan 3, 2021. Lummis is next up for reelection in 2026 and serves until Jan 3, 2027. She is 68 years old.
She was previously the representative for Wyoming’s at-large district as a Republican from 2009 to 2016.
Our work to hold Congress accountable only matters if elections are decided by counting votes. President Trump, his senior government advisors, and Republican legislators collaborated to have the 2020 presidential election decided instead by incumbent politicians running in the very same election. Their attempts to suppress entire state-certified vote counts without adjudication in the courts and using a disinformation campaign of lies and conspiracy theories was a months-long, multifarious attempted coup.
Lummis was among the Republican legislators who participated in the attempted coup. Lummis was a part of a coordinated campaign with the Trump Administration spreading conspiracy theories about the election. In the days leading up to January 6, 2021’s congressional certification of the election, Lummis announced her intent to object to the inclusion of some states from the certification, which would have disenfranchised millions of voters and amplified lies, conspiracy theories, and preposterous legal theories about purported fraud. On January 6, 2021 in the hours after the violent insurrection at the Capitol, Lummis voted to reject the state-certified election results of Arizona and/or Pennsylvania (states narrowly won by Democrats), which could have changed the outcome of the election. These legislators have generally changed their story after their vote, claiming it was merely a protest and not intended to change the outcome of the election as they clearly sought prior to the vote. The January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol, led on the front lines by militant white supremacy groups, attempted to prevent President-elect Joe Biden from taking office by disrupting Congress’s count of electors.
![Photo of Sen. Cynthia Lummis [R-WY]](/static/legislator-photos/412294-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2022 Report Card for Lummis.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Lummis is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the Senate positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).
The chart is based on the bills Lummis has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Mar 23, 2023. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Cynthia Lummis sits on the following committees:
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Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
- Housing, Transportation, and Community Development subcommittee Ranking Member
Economic Policy, Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection subcommittees - Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
- Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
Enacted Legislation
Lummis was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:
- S. 2126 (117th): A bill to designate the Federal Office Building located at 308 W. 21st Street in Cheyenne, Wyoming, as the “Louisa Swain Federal Office Building”, and for other …
- H.R. 845 (114th): National Forest System Trails Stewardship Act
Does 2 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.
We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Lummis sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Finance and Financial Sector (19%) Transportation and Public Works (19%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (14%) Environmental Protection (14%) Economics and Public Finance (14%) Energy (10%) Government Operations and Politics (10%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Lummis recently introduced the following legislation:
- S. 796: A bill to exempt discharges of fire retardant by Federal land management agencies, …
- S. 743: Sustainable Budget Act of 2023
- S. 445: Grizzly Bear State Management Act of 2023
- S. 319: POWER Act
- S. 267: A bill to designate the mountain at the Devils Tower National Monument, Wyoming, …
- S. 5286 (117th): Responsible Self-Regulation Act of 2022
- S. 5169 (117th): Truck Parking Safety Improvement Act
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2021 to Mar 2023, Lummis missed 51 of 1,013 roll call votes, which is 5.0%. This is much worse than the median of 2.3% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
