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Liz Cheney

The political positions of Liz Cheney are reflected by her United States House of Representatives voting record, public speeches, and interviews. Liz Cheney is the Republican Representative from Wyoming who has served since 2017.

Domestic policy

Energy

In September 2019, Cheney was among the House Republicans to release the American Energy First Act, an overhaul to federal lands energy policy that was interpreted as a response to recent proposed bans of offshore drilling by House Democrats. In a statement, Cheney cited costly government barriers and excessive permitting delays as having impede the ability of energy production to run efficiently and that she was "pleased to work with Reps. Scalise and Bishop on this bill which will end unnecessary overreach from Washington bureaucrats, and enable states to manage energy production on lands within their borders."

Immigration

In January 2019, after Congress passed and Trump signed a 3-week appropriation bill to fund the government while negotiations on border security funding took place, Cheney said that Trump's offering of protections for DACA recipients in exchange for border funding showed he was "willing to do something reasonable and try to come to an agreement." Cheney also predicted that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would move closer to the Republican position on immigration, citing her having members of the Democratic caucus "who are vulnerable who are in swing districts" that would have constituents who consider border security a priority.

Religion in government

In January 2019, as it was disclosed that the House Committee on Natural Resources was seeking to have the words "so help you God" removed from the oath recited by witnesses who testified to the panel, Cheney said it was "incredible, but not surprising, that the Democrats would try to remove God from committee proceedings in one of their first acts in the majority" and asserted that the Democrats had become the party of Karl Marx.

Regulations

In a July 2019 roundtable with United States Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue, Cheney credited President Trump with revealing the costs of regulations, saying,

What President Trump has really brought is a real understanding of the cost of regulation. When the federal government imposes regulation after regulation, they build up over the years, and it has a devastating impact. Especially in places like ours, where so much of our resources are owned by the federal government. The impact of that is devastating to people.

Trump impeachment inquiry

Further information: Impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump

In September 2019, after the announcement of impeachment inquiry into President Trump, Cheney stated her support for investigating "why the Obama administration didn’t do more to protect our election systems" and noted that Trump "has been very clear in his concerns about burden-sharing, about allies paying more, and the repeated calls and cries we’ve heard about corruption and ensuring there’s clarity." She also accused Democrats of launching the investigation without any evidence and attempting to focus on efforts to "overturn the votes of 63 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump in the last election".

Foreign policy

China

In July 2019, Cheney was a cosponsor of the Defending America’s 5G Future Act, a bill preventing Huawei from being removed from the "entity list" of the Commerce Department without Congressional approval and that would codify an executive order from President Trump the previous May that empowered the Trump administration to have the ability to block foreign tech companies from doing business with the US in the event that they were deemed a national security threat.

Israel

In March 2019, Cheney was one of twenty-three members of the House to vote against a resolution that broadly condemned anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and other forms of hatred. She stated that while she did not object to the text of the resolution, it was an attempt by Democrats to protect Ilhan Omar through covering up "her bigotry and anti-Semitism by refusing to name her."

In July 2019, following the House passing a resolution condemning remarks by President Trump, Cheney stated that the tenure of the Democratic-controlled House had been "really shameful" and reflected that Democratic leadership had been "completely unwilling to condemn their own members particularly for really vile anti-Semitic remarks."

Iran

In May 2019, Cheney led a letter signed by 50 Republican House members that was described by Politico as echoing a letter by Senators Ted Cruz, Tom Cotton, and Marco Rubio in which the senators urged President Trump to remove waivers for Iran in the wake of Iran’s announcement that it had blown past the uranium enrichment levels established by the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action.

Cheney has charged Iran with terrorism, saying

Iran engaged in such reckless behavior before President Obama’s deeply-flawed nuclear deal, and continued to do so after receiving a windfall of sanctions relief. That’s exactly why the Trump Administration withdrew from that disastrous agreement and is ramping up sanctions against Tehran. We must deprive the regime of the funds it uses for terrorism.

In June 2019, following President Trump's last minute decision to cancel a military strike against Tehran in response to Iran shooting down an American surveillance drone, Cheney said she would wait for additional information but espoused that it was "important that people recognize that the United States is going to keep its word and not go down the path that President Obama went down."