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GILLETTE, Wyo. — Twenty-six Wyoming youths earned gold, silver and bronze Congressional Awards this year and were recognized by the Wyoming Congressional Award Council, or WCAC, during a Sunday morning ceremony at the Cheyenne Civic Center.
Established by Congress in 1979, the Congressional Award is a national program that recognizes initiative, service and achievement in young people. Any student can register for their state’s program at 13 and a half years old and must finish all activities by their 24th birthday.
Legislation to remove the grizzly bear from the Endangered Species List in the Greater Yellowstone and Northern Continental Divide Ecosystems, took a big step forward last week.
The House Committee on Natural Resources passed Congressman Matt Rosendale’s (MT-02) legislation to delist the grizzly bear in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem. In the same committee meeting legislation sponsored by Wyoming Congresswoman Harriet Hageman would remove the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly from the list.
U.S. Representatives Bill Johnson (OH-06), Morgan Griffith (VA-09), Harriet Hageman (WY-AL), and Dan Meuser (PA-09) will lead the Congressional Coal Caucus for the 118th Congress. The Congressional Coal Caucus plays a key role in facilitating legislative and policy debates relating to the coal industry:
SHERIDAN — Congress is through about four months of its yearlong calendar and Wyoming’s delegation has taken action during the session on anti-transgender legislation and rules imposed by federal departments and the Biden administration.
Hageman cosponsors legislation
U.S. Rep. Harriet Hageman, R-WY, cosponsored legislation that would require athletes to compete with teams that match their sex assigned at birth.
Washington, DC – Today Congresswoman Harriet Hageman announced that she will be hosting three additional town hall meetings on May 4th and 5th. This will bring the total number of town halls held to 18 (17 in person and 1 tele-townhall).
Washington, DC – Today, the House Natural Resources Committee advanced H.R. 1245 – legislation sponsored by Congresswoman Harriet Hageman, to direct the Secretary of Interior to remove the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem population of grizzly bears from the federal list of endangered and threatened wildlife. The Greater Yellowstone population was delisted twice before, in 2007 and 2017. Each time, the delisting was blocked by activist courts.
Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Harriet Hageman voted in favor of H.R. 2811 – the Limit, Save, Grow Act. This legislation will save $3.6 Trillion over the next ten years, reduce federal government spending levels, and grow the American economy.
The U.S. Department of the Interior oversees a lot of decisions that impact energy policy, including the issuing of coal, oil and gas leasing on public lands.
Even though these decisions can have an impact on the cost of energy in America, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland said during testimony before the Republican House Committee on Natural Resources that she is unfamiliar with the term “energy poverty.”
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Washington, DC – Today Congresswoman Harriet Hageman announced that she will be hosting two additional town hall meetings on Saturday, April 29th in Weston and Crook Counties. This will bring the total number of town halls held to 15 (14 in person and 1 tele-townhall.)