Legislators met with local officials and business leaders to talk energy and strategize Tuesday.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La, gathered seven Republican Congressmembers to tour the Gulf, and met with members of the Greater Lafourche Port Commission, Parish Presidents, South Central Industrial Association and other energy sector leaders. The gathering is an annual affair held by Scalise and this year they discussed and refined political arguments for promoting an overarching energy infrastructure agenda.
U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyoming, continues to establish herself as a prominent freshman lawmaker in Congress.
Hageman announced Monday that she has been named co-chair of the House Coal Caucus, a group of 33 mostly Republican members of congress who are
“I am proud to join with my colleagues as a co-chair of the Coal Caucus because America must have accessible and affordable energy and coal is a prime source of that energy now — and will be needed for generations to come,” Hageman said in a press release.
U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman is moving forward with her push against the actions of “unelected bureaucrats,” grilling Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Director Steven Dettelbach about his agency’s regulation on pistol braces and bump stocks during a House Judiciary Committee meeting.
Pistol Braces
GILLETTE, Wyo. — Twenty-six Wyoming youths earned gold, silver and bronze Congressional Awards this year and were recognized by the Wyoming Congressional Award Council, or WCAC, during a Sunday morning ceremony at the Cheyenne Civic Center.
Established by Congress in 1979, the Congressional Award is a national program that recognizes initiative, service and achievement in young people. Any student can register for their state’s program at 13 and a half years old and must finish all activities by their 24th birthday.
Legislation to remove the grizzly bear from the Endangered Species List in the Greater Yellowstone and Northern Continental Divide Ecosystems, took a big step forward last week.
The House Committee on Natural Resources passed Congressman Matt Rosendale’s (MT-02) legislation to delist the grizzly bear in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem. In the same committee meeting legislation sponsored by Wyoming Congresswoman Harriet Hageman would remove the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly from the list.
U.S. Representatives Bill Johnson (OH-06), Morgan Griffith (VA-09), Harriet Hageman (WY-AL), and Dan Meuser (PA-09) will lead the Congressional Coal Caucus for the 118th Congress. The Congressional Coal Caucus plays a key role in facilitating legislative and policy debates relating to the coal industry:
SHERIDAN — Congress is through about four months of its yearlong calendar and Wyoming’s delegation has taken action during the session on anti-transgender legislation and rules imposed by federal departments and the Biden administration.
Hageman cosponsors legislation
U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-WY, cosponsored legislation that would require athletes to compete with teams that match their sex assigned at birth.
The U.S. Department of the Interior oversees a lot of decisions that impact energy policy, including the issuing of coal, oil and gas leasing on public lands.
Even though these decisions can have an impact on the cost of energy in America, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland said during testimony before the Republican House Committee on Natural Resources that she is unfamiliar with the term “energy poverty.”
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As President Joe Biden issues an executive order for all federal agencies to pursue what he calls “climate justice” and simultaneously advances regulations to force Americans to transition to wind and solar energy and electric vehicles (EVs), critics say that these same policies also foster child labor in Africa, feature enormous wealth transfers from the poor to the rich, and will bring “energy poverty” to many Americans.
Are we actually "saving the environment" or have we over regulated to the point that we are not only not saving the environment, but are making it harder for humans to live?
Wyoming congresswoman Harriet Hageman went after the bureaucrats of Washington DC for being people who make "rules," which operate in the same ways as congressional laws, about things they really don't know anything about.
Hageman spoke of farmers, ranchers, loggers, and people in the energy industry, as people who actually produce the things we need.