The biggest obstacle in claiming $100 million to rebuild and shore up Goshen County irrigation tunnels from a federal agency’s larger appropriation was that “everybody’s clamoring for the same money,” U.S. Rep Harriet Hageman told Cowboy State Daily on Tuesday.
Out of an $889 million appropriation the U.S. Department of the Interior received via the Trump-backed one Big Beautiful Bill Act, $100 million is now officially earmarked for long-term repairs to the Fort Laramie Tunnels.
The most powerful union in the United States is putting its weight behind a GOP effort to crack down on a longtime trucking industry gimmick behind many horrific highway crashes.
Wyoming’s three members of Congress are praising President Donald Trump following his latest State of the Union address, saying his administration has delivered on promises of border security, economic growth and energy development — and pledging to help turn that agenda into lasting law.
President Donald Trump delivered the annual address Tuesday night, declaring the nation “back on track” and outlining what he described as major gains in energy, national security and affordability over the past year.
The U.S. House this month took up legislation aimed at cracking down on so‑called “chameleon carriers.”
The Wyoming Water Association (WWA) held their annual meeting and conference at the Ramkota Hotel and Conference Center in Casper from Oct. 29-31.
The three-day conference was themed “Every Drop Counts: Policy, People and the Path Forward” and featured presentations from a variety of speakers, including U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) who delivered comments on water policy, infrastructure management and federal partnership during the final day of the conference.
Policy updates
Renaming the federal Endangered Species Act to the “Endangered Species Recovery Act” is purely symbolic, but it points things in the right direction, a former Trump administration official said.
Wyoming Republican congressional delegates Sen. Cynthia Lummis and Rep. Harriet Hageman on Thursday introduced a measure to formally add the word “recovery” to the ESA’s title.
The relabeling would aptly reflect the ESA’s original intent, Wyoming attorney William Perry Pendley told Cowboy State Daily.
Tomorrow, the House Natural Resources Committee will meet to consider 12 pieces of legislation that have been introduced in the 119th Congress. One of the bills is Rep. Harriet Hageman’s (R-WY) H.R. 281, the Grizzly Bear State Management Act of 2025.
When courts issue wrongful injunctions, taxpayers are often left paying for the damage done to their own government. But Reps. Derek Schmidt, R-Kan., and Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., are introducing a bill on Monday that aims to shift that burden from taxpayers to the plaintiffs seeking these injunctions, forcing the courts to enforce pre-existing federal law.
A new bill aimed at holding sanctuary cities “accountable” has been introduced by Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY), with Breitbart News obtaining exclusive access to the proposed legislation as well as the congresswoman’s letter to President Donald Trump pledging to help him stop Democrat-controlled jurisdictions from harboring illegal migrants.
Citing concerns for highway safety, a federal lawmaker from Wyoming is asking the U.S. Department of Transportation to require that commercial truck drivers who cannot demonstrate proficiency with speaking and reading English be taken out of service in roadside inspections.
The move would mark a reversal of an Obama-era directive that said the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration was not required to automatically place out of service a driver who could not read English-language highway signs or speak the language.