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Tucked away on the disease traceability tab, in a June update to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) website, the agency says twice that it is working on a program to track animals from birth to slaughter.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced its long-awaited update to the animal identification rules on Friday, April 26, 2024.
The United States Cattlemen’s Association (USCA) announced their support of Representative Harriet Hageman’s (R-WY) joint resolution to block the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) rule mandating electronic identification (EID) eartags for bison and cattle moving interstate.
Wyoming Congresswoman Harriet Hageman has submitted two letters supporting Casper's applications for funds from the Community-Oriented Policing Services Hiring Program and the SAFER and AFG Programs.
In her letter to the Department of Justice, she expresses strong support for the Casper Police Department to employ six new sworn officers.
The Congressional delegation from Wyoming is urging the Department of Interior to rescind its recent update to the Buffalo Field Office Resource Management Plan.
The delegation — including U.S. Sens. John Barrasso (R-WY) and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), and U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) — said the update to the Buffalo Field Office plan would essentially kill future coal leasing in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin.
Wyoming’s only member of the U.S. House of Representatives wrote to the chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), urging him to not allow JBS’ proposed initial public offering (IPO) in the United States to proceed.
Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has reversed a sweeping injunction on government censorship of social media companies, Congress must enact its own speech protections, Wyoming’s lone U.S. House representative said Thursday.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has been chipping away at the oil, gas and coal industries ever since President Joe Biden took office. Wyoming is an energy state that produces half the nation’s coal, as well as part of its oil and gas output. Since the federal government owns nearly half the state’s land, virtually all oil, gas and coal operations in the Cowboy State are heavily impacted by every rule the BLM throws at fossil fuels.
Congresswoman Harriett Hageman, a Wyoming Republican, has carried the torch for cattle producers who oppose vertical integration and excessive government mandates. To that end, her fight against livestock traceability measures isn’t new but it is heating up. Hageman said the USDA, the major packers, and the ear tag manufacturers’ attempts to force mandatory EID tag use on American cattle producers is not new.
Hageman said the USDA, the major packers, and the ear tag manufacturers’ attempts to force mandatory EID tag use on American cattle producers is not new.
A group of Congressional Republicans are taking steps to block a proposed federal regulatory scheme that would require the tracking and surveillance of U.S. cattle.
U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-Wyo.), along with 14 Republican co-sponsors, has introduced a bill to halt the proposed regulations for taking effect.
A House Judiciary Committee released a report Tuesday that alleges a ‘climate cartel’ comprised of left-wing environmental activists and major financial institutions colluded to force American companies to adopt anti-fossil fuel policies, which have in turn, harmed U.S. consumers.