In the News | Congresswoman Harriet Hageman
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January 13, 2024

Republicans have bargaining power in the trillion-and-a-half dollar continuing resolution and must use it first and foremost to secure the southern border or shut down the government, Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-Wyo., told Newsmax.

"This is an opportunity for us to take a hard line on this and say, 'Unless we can get border control, we're going to have to shut things down," Hageman said on "Saturday Agenda."


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January 11, 2024

A Securities and Exchange Commission proposal to allow investors to buy and sell stocks for the purpose of land conservation is being blasted by a number of Wyoming political leaders.

Wyoming Attorney General Bridget Hill and 24 other state attorneys general sent a letter Tuesday to the SEC outlining their opposition to the proposed rule, calling it illegal and an economic threat.

The SEC proposal would let investors buy into stock market companies trading on the New York Stock Exchange for the purpose of protecting nature — including public lands — and making money.


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January 11, 2024

Led by Florida Rep. Aaron Bean, a coalition of Republican lawmakers is introducing a bill to crack down on cabinet members’ communication with Congress after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin kept lawmakers and the White House in the dark about his hospitalization, the Daily Caller learned first.


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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.