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In recent decades, the Administrative State has massively enlarged, draining from Congress the ability to legislate and govern through expansive rulemaking. Executive Branch agencies now produce thousands more regulations and rules per year than bills passed through Congress, and the majority of these rules are unable to be exposed as federal overreach or ruled unconstitutional as a result of the flawed Chevron deference doctrine in federal courts.
Rep. Harriet Hageman shares lessons learned from her first weeks in the House of Representatives, committee assignments, and her priorities on fighting back against an oppressive and profligate administrative state with BEK's "No Apologies".
(BEK TV , No Apologies, 04/24/23)
Rep Hageman joins Newsmax's "Chris Salcedo Show" to discuss the crisis at the US-Mexico border, lessons learned from the House Judiciary Committee's field hearing in Yuma, AZ, and the refusal of committee Democrats to attend the hearing, as well as Newsmax's deplatforming. (@NewsmaxTV, Chris Salcedo Show, 2/17/23)
Rep. Hageman joins FRC's "Washington Watch with Tony Perkins" to discuss the need and purview of the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, and other efforts to rein in absurd federal agency overreach and surveillance. (Family Research Council, Washington Watch with Tony Perkins, 02/11/23)
Rep Hageman joins Newsmax's "Carl Higbie FRONTLINE" to share the need to hold government agencies accountable for their of-the-charts spending, as well as calls for Secretary Blinken to testify before Congress on his involvement in covering up the Hunter Biden laptop story
Today my Indian and Insular Affairs subcommittee held a hearing to discuss the budget requests for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and Office of Insular Affairs (OIA). The Biden Administration seeks to increase BIA's budget for the purpose of green new deal-style priorities that are not practical or reliable, and instead create economic harm and energy poverty for Native communities. At the same time, OIA's budget is being cut, with no mention of where future funding for our contracts with freely-associated states where come from.
The fact is simple: spending and rulemaking by federal agencies is extremely out of hand, creating immense financial burdens on Americans – the equivalent of $14,684 per household every single year. This is coupled with the absurdity of some of these rules, such as the EPA's overbearing RFID eartag rule and attempts to define irrigation ditches on Wyoming's farms as "navigable waters", which would place private property under federal authority.
During today's hearing with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Williams, I asked why Wyoming's grizzly bear population is still listed as endangered, despite having long ago met all criteria for delisting. She was not able to respond, stating that they were "working on a 12-month" review process. Yet despite multiple questions, she was unable to say when the review began, when it would end, or even how long it would actually last.
The Endangered Species Act, which turns 50 years old this week, is a perfect example of good legislation that has been twisted by a greedy government. No longer is its goal to recover endangered species and return management to the states; fully recovered species remain improperly listed as 'endangered' because bureaucrats want to protect their jobs and gobble up more money and land for the federal government.
The consequence of this reality is that other wildlife suffer, limited funds are pulled away from the areas and species that truly need them, and people are put in danger.
Rep Hageman joins Newsmax's "American Agenda" to discuss House Judiciary Democrat's attempts to discredit and hinder recent testimony from FBI whistleblowers, as well as the national risk posed by the inability of some Senate Democrats to fully perform the duties of their office