When Kip Crofts first read about a reinvigorated push for passage of a Wyoming bill that would require Congress to authorize the deployment of their National Guardsmen, one of his first reactions was disgust.

Congress already has put the federal government into a shutdown because of inaction, Crofts said. Giving them the responsibility of deciding whether to deploy Wyoming’s National Guard is a poor decision, he added.

“Whether it's a forest fire or a flood or whatever it is, or peaceful riots … that’s something needs to be taken care of right away,” Crofts told Cowboy State Daily on Tuesday. “And for those people to sit back there and debate and argue and fight and make political statements to the press and never get anything decided or done. It's just, to me, a crazy idea.”

Crofts, a

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