WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. John Barrasso and Cynthia Lummis and U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman, all R-Wyo., participated in their first Wyoming delegation tele-town hall of the 118th Congress on Wednesday night.
“While working together in Washington, it is critical we hear directly from people across Wyoming on issues directly impacting our state,” the delegation said in a news release. “Tele-town halls are an effective way to reach as many towns and people as possible around our great state. The best ideas come from Wyoming — not Washington.”
Representative Harriet Hageman has introduced her first bill as Wyoming's Congresswoman.
That's according to a press release from Hageman's office, which stated that Rep. Hageman introduced the POWER Act.
"This legislation would require the President and federal agencies to obtain the approval of Congress before prohibiting or delaying new energy, coal, or mineral leases or permits on federal lands," the release stated. "This bill is a direct response to President Biden’s ban on new energy leases."
Some politicians in the Mountain West are renewing calls to transfer federal lands to state and local governments as a way to ease the affordable housing crisis. They argue that such transfers could provide much-needed space in fast-growing communities hemmed in by public lands, while critics say these proposals threaten what makes these areas appealing to begin with.
