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The United States farm country can feel like a whole different world compared to our nation’s highly-populated coastal regions. Rep. Harriet Hageman, the Republican from Wyoming, says this is a feeling she knows all too well.

The feeling especially applies, as Rep.Hageman explains, to her state’s work rehabilitating the Grizzly bear population to meet the goals of the federally-mandated Endangered Species Act, as well as shouldering most of the financial burden of those efforts.

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. 

Congresswoman Harriet Hageman (R-WY) is reacting to the recent ruling that President Biden’s son, Hunter, reached a plea deal that has caused a political firestorm over independence of the judicial system.

U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman told Cowboy State Daily on Wednesday that she supports an effort from one of her colleagues in the House to have President Joe Biden impeached.

Hageman said if she has an opportunity to vote on Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert’s latest push to impeach Biden, she’s a “yes” vote.

Special Counsel John Durham testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday for nearly six hours.

In a bipartisan effort, Congress is pushing back against the Biden administration’s war on gas stoves.

The House passed two bills limiting the federal government from meddling with American gas stoves. The Gas Stove Protection and Freedom Act, which had bipartisan sponsorship, passed the House with more than 25 Democrats voting in favor of the bill. 

The House also passed the Save Our Gas Stoves Act, with more than 30 Democrats voting for it.

U.S. House Republicans and GOP Govs. Kristi Noem of South Dakota and Mark Gordon of Wyoming teamed up Thursday to rail against the Bureau of Land Management’s proposed rule to allow conservation leases on federal lands.

Noem and Gordon joined the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee for about half of a 4-1/2 hour hearing that saw Republican members raise familiar objections to the BLM’s proposal that would treat conservation as a use on the same level as mining, oil and gas development or livestock grazing.

In an apparent response to strident opposition from western conservatives, including Wyoming’s top elected officials, the Bureau of Land Management last week extended the public comment period for its new Public Lands Rule to July 5. 

Environmental advocates have described the measure, which would put conservation on equal footing with energy development, grazing and other approved uses of public lands, as a clear-eyed strategy for addressing contemporary problems like climate change and habitat loss.