Michael Enzi, Long-Serving U.S. Senator From Wyoming, Dies at 77

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A four-term senator, Mr. Enzi was a consistent conservative with a consensus-seeking style. He died after a bicycle accident in Gillette, Wyo., the city where he began his political career.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/us/politics/senator-mike-enzi-dies.html



Michael B. Enzi, a long-serving United States senator from Wyoming who had a reputation as a low-key, consensus-seeking conservative and who led the Senate Budget Committee for several years before he retired in January, died on Monday, days after a bicycle accident. He was 77.

A former spokesman, Max D’Onofrio, confirmed Mr. Enzi’s death to The Associated Press. He had been airlifted to the UCHealth Medical Center of the Rockies, in Loveland, Colo., after an accident in Gillette, Wyo., on Friday.

Mr. Enzi was consistently conservative. He voted against marriage equality and abortion rights, and he regularly defended the energy industry, supporting off-shore drilling and opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other public lands to private oil companies. But he also sought compromise at times, and he occasionally opposed members of his own party — as when he supported efforts to impose a uniform tax on interstate commerce online.

He served four terms in office, overwhelmingly winning re-elections. He easily fended off a primary challenge in 2014 from Liz Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, despite her national name recognition and greater fund-raising ability.

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