For over 30 years as a private attorney and now as your representative, I have defended Wyoming against the administrative state. For too long, Washington, D.C. has delegated authority to unelected bureaucrats in a manner that jeopardizes our Constitution.
Administrative agencies have the power to write, enforce, and judicially review law, even though they are unelected and therefore unaccountable to the People. How this translates in Wyoming is the EPA’s ability to bring tens of thousands of dollars of fines per day against a rancher who simply cleared out an irrigation ditch on his property, or small businesses losing resources to complex regulatory compliance.
As a member of the Judiciary Committee, I have primary jurisdiction over administrative law where I am working to restore power in Congress, ensure due process, and otherwise stop the onslaught of trillions in hidden taxes that stem from annual regulatory compliance.
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development has one of the most absurd telework arrangements in our federal government. It allows federal employees to work from home, even if they live minutes away from their assigned office building. Government bureaucracy already moves all to slowly; we should make every effort to ensure decisions are made and actions taken as efficiently as possible for the American public.
Earlier this year, Democrats voiced their opinion that gas stoves posed an existential threat to our planet; as such, they attempted to limit the free choice of Americans and disrupt the free market by restricting and even banning your ability to choose what stove fits your needs best.
As the House of Representatives investigates the Justice Department for alleged politicization, the agency’s internal watchdog has expanded its telework policy.
While members of Congress are held accountable by their constituents every 2 or 6 years, the millions of unelected career bureaucrats that run federal departments and craft expensive legislative rules that balloon our debt and burden our industries are insulated from any accountability with the federal government. These are the people who hoard and wield immense power in the federal government, yet there is little that can be done to reduce their outsized influence that harms our nation and strips power from the states and elected representatives.
The State Department’s remote work practices are even more absurd than the DoD. Not only are the agency employees not returning to work, the State Department is authorizing remote work agreements where the employee is living outside their locality of pay. This means employees are living and working remotely in a location that has a substantially less expensive cost of living (think Lovell, Wyoming), while receiving pay as though they live in an urban area with a much higher cost of living (think Denver, Colorado).
Over 3.8 million employees in the DoD are able to access classified information, yet many of these individuals are eligible for or have been granted telework requests. Not only is it absurd that massive portions of our largest federal department are working from home each and every day, but it creates a significant security risk. My amendment, which passed by voice, will bring an end to regular telework authorizations that are not justified for a health, emergency or other specialty circumstances.
U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman said a Tuesday revelation that Hunter Biden received more than $250,000 in wire transfers in 2019 from his Chinese business partners, with President Joe Biden’s home address listed as the beneficiary address for the funds, is evidence of “simple and obvious corruption” by the president.
Hageman said the bank records obtained and publicized by the House Oversight Committee is another reason to consider impeaching Biden.
U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman believes politicians are term limited by their elections, but rank-and-file federal employees are a different beast.
“If you want to change what’s going on in Washington, D.C., limit the power of the bureaucracy. That’s the key,” she said on conservative strategist Tim Murtaugh’s Line Drive podcast last week.