In the News | Congresswoman Harriet Hageman
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January 9, 2024

Quietly, on September 29, 2023, the Securities and Exchange Commission, at the request of the New York Stock Exchange, proposed a rule to create a new type of company called a Natural Asset Company (NAC). According to the proposed rule, a NAC would “hold the rights to ecological performance,” giving these companies license to control the management of both public and private lands through quantifying and monetizing natural outputs such as air and water. In other words, NACs would use the air you breathe as currency. 


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January 4, 2024

House Republicans are calling out President Joe Biden’s push, under an executive order, to field federal employees to vote, register voters, and serve as poll workers during elections. 

“Biden’s EO is another attempt for this administration to put a thumb on the scale and expand its overreach in our elections,” Rep. Bryan Steil, chairman of the House Administration Committee, told The Daily Signal. 


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December 15, 2023

U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman signed a letter with 31 other members of Congress on Friday demanding answers from the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) about a newly proposed rule that would allow buying and selling of undefined “rights” to certain private and public lands, including to foreign nations.


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December 13, 2023

U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman believes President Joe Biden has been lying to the American people about his involvement in his son’s international business dealings. On Wednesday, she cast a vote to support opening a formal impeachment inquiry into the president, which passed the House.


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December 12, 2023

With the cost of energy weighing on Americans, a GOP-led House panel considered a bill Tuesday that takes aim at the Biden administration’s green energy agenda, blaming it for rising energy costs.

“I believe that this administration is furthering energy poverty as an affirmative policy for the purpose of controlling human behavior and pursuing a radical climate agenda," said Wyoming GOP Rep. Harriet Hageman, who is sponsoring the bill in the House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.

Issues: Energy

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December 6, 2023

U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman believes President Joe Biden’s administration is “hell-bent” on killing American energy independence.

On Tuesday, she reacted to the Biden administration’s recent commitment to not build any more new coal plants and shut down existing ones by 2035.

“Yet another move by a Biden administration hell-bent on ending our energy independence,” she posted on X. “Coal will be needed for generations to come.”

Issues: Energy

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December 1, 2023

A House committee advanced a measure to repeal President Joe Biden’s executive order involving federal agencies in election administration and to require more transparency. 


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December 1, 2023

Wyoming’s only Representative in the U.S. House, Harriet Hageman, has served in Congress for almost a year. In that time, Republicans have struggled to maintain their leadership and have fiercely debated government funding and American involvement in foreign conflicts. Wyoming Public Radio’s Will Walkey spoke with Hageman about her reflections about her tenure so far, as well as what issues she’s focusing on in the new year.

The following transcript has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity. 


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November 27, 2023

Wyoming congresswoman Harriet Hageman has co-sponsored a bill that would bar the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture from prohibiting or regulating the use of lead ammunition or tackle for hunting or fishing on federal land.


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November 17, 2023

Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., told Newsmax on Friday that she voted against the bipartisan continuing resolution because it once again extends government spending at 2022 levels that were inflated even more due to COVID-19 relief spending.

Hageman, 1 of 93 Republicans to vote against the stopgap funding bill, told "Carl Higbie FRONTLINE" that it's "time to get back to regular order" on Capitol Hill.