Economy and Budget
The United States is over $34 trillion in debt and counting. Few in Washinton, D.C. know what it means to adhere to, or even make, a budget. The Congressional budgeting and spending process is broken, hijacked by reckless spending and borrowing. We are not taxed too little; we spend too much.
As your representative, I have rejected budget and spending bills which provide unchecked growth in deficit spending and am pushing for institutional reforms in the House which reaffirms our power of the purse in a manner which allows the American people and their representatives to regain control over our fiscal health.
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My Indian and Insular Affairs subcommittee recently held a hearing on three diverse bills that seek to enable tribal prosperity through a variety of ways.
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.
The BLM's proposed rule establishing conservation as a use designation for public land is a horrible proposal riddled with unintended consequences.
WASHINGTON D.C. — Congresswoman Harriet Hageman voted against H.R. 3746, a bill that would raise the debt ceiling by an unspecified amount and establish the FY 2023 appropriations, so called “Inflation Reduction Act”, and COVID era emergency bills passed by Biden/Pelosi/Schumer as the baseline for future government spending.
Wyoming’s lone Representative in the House, Harriet Hageman joined Mac Watson on “Mac In The Morning” on KODI-AM/FM this morning to talk about some important developments going on in Congress.
Wyoming’s Rep. Harriet Hageman joined Republicans and Democrats in voting against the new debt ceiling agreement, which cleared the U.S. House by a wide margin Wednesday night.
The bill, called the Fiscal Responsibility Act, now goes to the Senate ahead of a Monday deadline to move the legislation before the nation defaults on its debt — a situation that would spell economic catastrophe for the U.S. and the world.
U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman says the debt ceiling deal that passed the U.S. House on Wednesday night doesn’t do enough to cut federal spending or take power out of Washington, D.C., and return it to the people.
“H.R. 3746 provides more deference to agency bureaucrats to make new rules, with the cost of those rules placed on the backs of private businesses and individuals,” she said in a press release.
Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Harriet Hageman voted against H.R. 3746, a bill that would raise the debt ceiling by an unspecified amount and establish the FY 2023 appropriations, so called “Inflation Reduction Act”, and COVID era emergency bills passed by Biden/Pelosi/Schumer as the baseline for future government spending.
A bill that raises the debt ceiling limit passed in the House by a wide margin late Wednesday. Now the bill is being sent to the Senate for a vote, just days before Monday’s U.S. default deadline.
The Fiscal Responsibility Act passed 314-117, with support from both Democrats and Republicans.
But not everyone is happy with the contents of the bill.
On Tuesday night, the House Rules Committee on Tuesday voted to advance the McCarthy-Biden Fiscal Responsibility Act.