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Rep. Harriet Hageman (WY) today endorsed Rep. Jim Jordan (OH) for Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Hageman issued the following statement:
Congresswoman Harriet Hageman today voted to table a motion to vacate the Speaker’s chair, and she also voted against the motion to vacate. She then issued the following statement:
Today in the U.S. House of Representatives, history was made when Republican members voted to oust Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House. The House will now need to elect a new speaker, with North Carolina Republican Patrick McHenry taking over as the interim speaker. Prior to today, no House speaker has ever before been relieved of the position through the passage of a resolution to remove them.
McCarthy’s tenure as the Speaker of the House lasted just 269 days, the second shortest tenure in history.
Hageman Statement
Democratic U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman's pulling a fire alarm in a U.S. Capitol office building as Congress scrambled to pass stopgap funding to avert a federal government shutdown Saturday was more than an innocent mistake, said Wyoming Republican Rep. Harriet Hageman. It was a deliberate stunt that deserves swift action by censuring and booting Bowman from the House.
One of the biggest sideshows to the weekend’s spending bill negotiations was Bowman's fire alarm pull that happened before a midnight deadline to avert a shutdown.
Washington, DC - This afternoon, Congresswoman Harriet Hageman issued the following statement on her NO vote for H.R. 5860:
Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Harriet Hageman issued the following statement on the impending government shutdown:
According to a recent USDA report, after 30 plus years of a positive trade balance, the United States will import more dollars worth of agricultural products than it will export.
The imbalance looks to grow larger in 2024.
The lowered export values are “largely driven by lower exports of soybeans, soybean meal, and dairy products” according to the USDA.
Congresswoman Harriet Hageman (R-WY) voted to pass the Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act.
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Harriet Hageman voted to pass the Protecting Hunting Heritage and Education Act, a bipartisan bill that would amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to ensure that the prohibition of use of federal education funds for certain weapons does not apply to the use of such weapons in extracurricular programs such as archery, hunting, other shooting sports, or culinary arts.