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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Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan testified in front of the House Judiciary Committee today, the first time Khan has appeared in front of the committee to answer questions surrounding her tenure. Republican lawmakers held Khan to account on multiple fronts while Democrats attempted to paper over Khan’s failures and ethical lapses.
Here are five takeaways from today’s hearing.
Lina Khan’s Law License is Delinquent
The FBI is corrupt, plain and simple.
They have colluded with social media companies to censor conservatives, furthered false narratives of the Russia hoax revealed by John Durham, and hid and suppressed information about Hunter Biden's business dealings and the larger Biden family's corruption. Despite Director Wray's claim to have not been involved in political weaponization of the FBI, at the very least it has happened under his watch, and the buck stops at the top.
Wyoming’s lone U.S. House member grilled FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday about explosive discovery evidence a federal judge summarized last week about the FBI’s efforts to censor and suppress some election-related speech.
FBI Director Christopher Wray testified Wednesday that the Bureau had continued to meet with social media companies about potentially censoring content until a federal judge issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting the practice.
Capt. Fred Gamboa has led fishing trips off the New Jersey coast for the last 17 years, but he fears he will soon lose many customers if required to slow down his boats to meet new federal requirements to protect one of the most endangered whales in the ocean.
Gamboa, a charter boat operator from Point Pleasant, N.J., charges $4,800 to take people on an 18-hour tuna fishing trip 100 miles from shore. Under a new rule proposed by NOAA Fisheries, he’d have to travel at a top speed of roughly 11 ½ mph for part of the year, as opposed to his normal cruising speed of 30 to 40 mph.
By appealing to a higher court Wednesday evening, President Joe Biden is fighting a judge’s sweeping ban on federal bureaus pressuring social medial platforms to censor their users.
Referencing a report this week from the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, committee member Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., told Newsmax that the federal government worked to silence Americans on social media — violating their First Amendment rights.
Support among House Judiciary Committee Republicans for an impeachment inquiry into Attorney General Merrick Garland grew stronger after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy threatened impeachment proceedings if IRS whistleblower allegations turn out to be true regarding the politicization of the Justice Department’s Hunter Biden tax probe.
Last week U.S. Senators John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis fired back against a Biden administration Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) rule governing pistol braces. The senators joined their Republican colleagues on a resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act (CRA), but the measure failed by a vote of 49-50. The House, along with Wyo. Rep. Harriet Hageman, had passed the resolution earlier this month by a vote of 219-210; Biden resolved to veto it if it had passed both chambers.