By Katherine Tully-McManus

CQ-Roll Call

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Wyoming Sen. Mike Enzi announced Saturday that he will not run for reelection in 2020 after more than two decades in the Senate.

Enzi announced his decision at a news conference in Wyoming, according to the Casper Star-Tribune. His retirement opens a Senate seat in a traditionally Republican state.

Enzi won his last election in 2014 with 72 percent of the vote, and President Donald Trump carried Wyoming by 46 points in 2016. Political prognosticator Nathan L. Gonzales of Inside Elections rates the Wyoming Senate race Solid Republican.

One potential candidate for the seat is House GOP Conference chairwoman Liz Cheney. Under new House rules adopted this year, Cheney would have to give up her leadership post if she runs.

Enzi has led the Senate Budget Committee since 2015, which put him in the thick of some of the Senate’s most important actions in recent years. In March 2015, the onetime accountant shepherded through a fiscal 2016 budget resolution that would be the first one adopted by the House and Senate since a Democratic-led Congress passed a budget in 2009.

Enzi has said his previous experience selling shoes has proved valuable in the Washington.

“You have to know that there’s a customer, you have to listen to the customer, and you have to see how what the customer wants matches up with the inventory, and around here the inventory is legislation,” he said.