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Washington, DC – Today Congresswoman Harriet Hageman announced her first town hall of 2024, to be held on January 22nd in Cheyenne. This marks not only the first town hall of 2024, but the 24th since being sworn-in to Congress.
Washington, DC – Today, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a statement that the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) was withdrawing a proposed rule change which would have allowed the Exchange’s listing of Natural Asset Companies (NACs). This proposal was of questionable legality and would allow for the buying and selling of undefined “rights” to certain private and public lands, including to foreign nations and noncitizens, to terminate and prevent all economic activity on such properties.
Washington, DC – Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources advanced two bills sponsored by Congresswoman Harriet Hageman. H.R. 1246, to authorize leases of up to 99 years for land held in trust for federally recognized Indian tribes, and H.R. 5482, the “Energy Poverty Prevention and Accountability Act of 2023.” Both bills will now be scheduled for a vote of the whole House of Representatives.
Washington, DC – Rep. Hageman issued the following statement on the upcoming deadline for comment on the Bureau of Land Management’s disastrous proposed Rock Springs Resource Management Plan (RMP):
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."
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.
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.
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.