Harriet Hageman

Harriet Hageman was born in Douglas, Wyoming in 1962. She earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Wyoming in 1986 and a law degree from the University of Wyoming College of Law in 1989.[1][2] Hageman's career experience includes working as a law clerk for federal appeals judge James E. Barrett, as a lawyer, and as an adjunct professor.[1] She co-founded the Wyoming Conservation Alliance.[3]

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Protecting Our Constitution

Big government politicians in our country have steered us dangerously away from the Constitutional foundation on which America was built. The separation of powers, a limited and confined federal government, and individual liberty are more endangered now than at any time in the history of the United States. The Left has unleashed an onslaught on our Constitution, and they are working their way down the list of freedoms they have decided must be taken away. They want to eliminate freedom of speech, dissolve our right to keep and bear arms, and seize our private property, just to name a few. Our rights are not allowances from the government that can be so easily destroyed. Freedom and liberty are inherent in each of us, granted upon conception by our Creator, and we must fight every day to protect those rights from big government liberals and bureaucrats who seek to curtail them at every opportunity. I will work every day to block the liberals’ efforts to destroy our Constitutional Republic.

Deregulating the Administrative State

The federal government has grown so massively in excess of anything our Founders could have ever envisioned that they would hardly recognize this country today. For years, Congress has been delegating its authority to ever-expanding agencies, thereby empowering unelected government bureaucrats to write and enforce regulations that affect the lives and livelihoods of every person in Wyoming. I’ve spent most of my professional career fighting back against many of those rules and regulations, fighting the bureaucrats who seek to micromanage our employers and entrepreneurs, including ranchers, farmers, and energy producers. Congress created this mess, and Congress must fix it. Congress must focus like a laser on curtailing the power of these bloated federal agencies and block their ongoing efforts to restrict and destroy our entrepreneurial and personal freedoms. We need real and fundamental reform of the Administrative State. I have fought regulators and bureaucrats in court; now I will do it in Congress.

Standing up for Election Integrity

Free and fair elections are the foundation of our Republic. Over the past two years we’ve seen Democrats chip away at this foundation, changing and altering election rules – often using friendly courts and changes implemented by unelected bureaucrats - in a way that undermines our very form of government. Tens of millions of Americans have lost faith in the security and integrity of our elections and we must rebuild that trust. We must put a stop to things such as blindly mailing ballots, often to millions of registered voters who did not ask for them, without accountability or a proper chain of custody. There is also no good, commonsense argument against requiring people to show identification to vote. As your Congresswoman, I will ensure that every eligible American is able to vote, vote once, and have that vote be counted.

Controlling Government Spending

Prosperity in our country is often dependent upon the affordability of necessities - affordable housing, affordable food, and affordable energy. Unfortunately, bad public policy has created an inflationary spiral. As prices of necessary goods continue to increase, Democrats in Congress are calling for more irresponsible spending to the tune of trillions of dollars. It is vital that we rein in spending. High inflation is a hidden tax on Americans at the grocery store, at the gas pump, and in every aspect of our lives. Pursuing an agenda that is designed to make basic necessities more expensive is not only wrong, it is cruel, unsustainable, and will lead to a lower standard of living for everyone.

Demanding Transparency in Government and Reining in the Surveillance State

Our government must be transparent and accountable and so we must rein in the surveillance state in America. The FBI and NSA have been pursuing surveillance operations outside of the public eye and in violation of the Constitution. We know from the Russia Hoax, which was the fabricated idea that President Trump’s campaign had colluded with Russian agents, that there are political operatives in these agencies who are willing to abuse the FISA system and process for their own political ends. Current FISA law inhibits Congress’ ability to exercise proper oversight of FISA activities and investigations. FISA laws must be reformed to restrict the government from circumventing the Fourth Amendment, from snooping through our private records and communications, from pursuing political witch hunts, and from abusing its power.

Putting America First

America is the greatest country in the history of the world. We reached that pinnacle by protecting freedom, upholding human rights, and building a land of opportunity for all who aspire to greatness. We are headed down the wrong road right now, with the Democrats pursuing policies that are designed to destroy everything that has made this country what it is—the Shining City on the Hill. If we refuse to secure our borders, continue to ship our manufacturing jobs overseas, and assume that our energy needs can be met by countries who are hostile to our way of life and culture, our future generations, our children and grandchildren, will suffer the most. We don’t have the right to mortgage their future. A lack of jobs and opportunity will become our way of life, with the elite few succeeding as everyone else, including our middle class, loses ground. Every decision that Congress makes should be focused on what is best for American families and businesses, not on what helps the globalists or the military industrial complex. Putting America First means Putting Americans First.

Protecting the Unborn

The most basic fundamental right we all hold is the right to life. Since the beginning of the Coronavirus lockdowns we’ve been hearing an ongoing mantra from the Left that we must “Trust the Science.” The Democrats’ publicly expressed belief in science has limits, however. We need to look no further than the fact that a unique human life is formed at the moment of conception, a human life with its own genetic code and individual existence. Babies have a heartbeat within six weeks of gestation. They can feel pain, they have dreams when they sleep, and they are every bit as human before they are born as they are after. There is no justification for refusing to protect these precious lives and I will strongly support laws that seek to ensure their safety. Abortion will one day be remembered as a grave stain on American history. Until then, we will never stop advocating for the most vulnerable among us.

Stopping the Radical Biden Agenda

Joe Biden is a puppet of a radical Left which will go to any lengths necessary to achieve their dream of a socialist America. Their agenda is Critical Race Theory, imposing bone-crushing taxes on American families, taking our guns, silencing free speech, weaponizing government agencies against us, and destroying the American dream. Democrats represent the antithesis to liberty, freedom, and the values we hold dear in America. I will work every day in Congress to fight the Biden/Pelosi agenda. I will stand up against the woke radicals and anyone who is complicit in their attacks on our country.

Fighting for Federal Land Management Reform

As Wyomingites, we take pride in our independence. Our ancestors settled this land and created our communities through grit and hard work, only to suffer the consequences of bad public land policies adopted and enforced by bureaucrats in Washington, DC. The United States Forest Service has been mismanaging our forest lands for years, resulting in catastrophic fires, horrific insect outbreaks, the fouling of our watersheds, and devastating losses to our local communities. The fact is that bad land management decisions destroy our environment, and in a state like Wyoming where almost 50% of our surface real estate is owned by the federal government, we suffer more than most. It is long past time that we held the United States Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management accountable for their actions. We need leaders in Washington who know how these agencies work, and who have the background and experience to actually enforce multiple-use laws and requirements. When I get to Congress, I’ll fight to implement real and effective land management policies in order to protect those communities and businesses who have suffered the most as a result of Washington, D.C.’s decades-long failures.

Keeping Taxes Low

As if the inflation we are experiencing isn’t enough hardship for our workers and families, the Biden Administration and Democrats in Congress are trying to raise our taxes to pay for their trillion-dollar spending spree. They are actually demanding that American companies pay higher taxes than their competitors in Communist China. Our country experienced the best economy in decades thanks to the Trump Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Reversing this to punish individuals and job creators isn’t just bad policy. It’s shortsighted, dangerous for our already fragile economy, and morally wrong. No matter what the Democrats think, government doesn’t stimulate the economy or create jobs: private industry does. We need to dramatically shrink the size and scope of the federal government, not expand it. In Congress, I will fight any effort to raise taxes and, instead, focus on ways to cut both federal spending and taxes.

Securing our Border

There is an undeniable crisis at our southern border. Our border patrol agents know it, you and I know it, and Congress knows it. President Biden and Vice President Harris know it too, but they refuse to do anything about it. Every day that we fail to stop drugs, human trafficking, and hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens flooding across our border, we are destroying our country’s sovereignty and squandering the future for our children and grandchildren. President Trump spent four years securing our border, thereby reducing the human misery that is so obviously caused by the open-border policy we are witnessing now. The Biden Administration and Democrats in Congress are making Americans less safe and every single one of us will suffer the consequences of their actions.

Defending our Energy Industries

America could be and should be energy independent. That is a fact. The reality is that America has no reason to rely upon hostile countries to supply us with oil and gas. The Democrats, and President Biden in particular, hate that reality. Some of the very first decisions made by the president were designed to cripple our ability to explore for, produce, and transport our energy resources. The Democrats seek to block any project that is intended to lower the cost of energy for consumers. The Biden Administration is blocking the construction of pipelines and other infrastructure in this country, while simultaneously lifting sanctions that will now allow Russia to complete its Nord 2 pipeline. This is the very definition of an “America Last” policy, with no other country on earth being as short-sighted or hostile to what is the lifeblood of our economy. I will always support and fight for energy independence and to protect our oil, gas and coal industries and in Wyoming.

Protecting the Second Amendment

The Second Amendment is one of the most fundamental rights in America. The authority to protect yourself and your family must never be infringed. Now, the radical Biden Administration is attempting to strip our rights away. They treat law-abiding gun owners as criminals and push to curtail gun rights at every opportunity. I will always fight to protect our Second Amendment, and will never back down to the tyranny of this Administration or any others who are attempting to infringe upon our Constitutional rights.[4]

—Harriet Hageman's campaign website (2022)[5]

Hageman’s campaign website stated the following:

My commitment to Wyoming

I am pro family, pro liberty, and pro effective and smart government.

I have been called to serve, just like so many in my family before me have served. I am called to serve my community, my state, and my Country as a problem solver; and as an advocate for our citizens, our industries, our communities, our schools, our students and our families.

I am committed to ensuring that our future, and the future of those who come after us, is full of promise and the American ideal.

I commit to you, the citizens of Wyoming, that I will serve you as Governor with honor, with integrity, with courage, with compassion, with kindness, and with strength.

I commit to you, the citizens of Wyoming, that I will fight to protect your liberties, your freedoms, and our great state.

We must honor, adhere to, and follow our Constitution

Our constitutional framework was unique in the world when it was created and remains one of the most significant developments in governing philosophy in human history. Our Constitution limits the reach and power of the federal government, with individual freedom and liberty being the cornerstone of our Republic.

Unlike the pre-United States historical view of the relationship between governments and individuals, our constitutional framework confirmed that our individual rights do not come from the government, but from God. As laid out in the very Preamble to the Wyoming Constitution:

“We, the people of the State of Wyoming, grateful to God for our civil, political and religious liberties, and desiring to secure them to ourselves and perpetuate them to our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution.”

The significance of this recognition cannot be overstated. If our innate civil rights and liberties are not granted by government, then government has no ability to take them away.

Our forefathers and mothers were people of faith. They understood that you could not have a just and fair government unless you had a moral society. Our Constitutions are based on those principles.

We must return to the foundational Constitutional principles of limited government, personal autonomy, personal freedom, and personal responsibility. We must demand that our government focus upon carrying out those purposes for which it was created: national security, criminal justice and civil law. We must demand that our leaders follow the Constitution, and we must demand that they protect our God-given rights.

We must fundamentally reform the regulatory state

A government that is closest to the people is more accountable, more responsive and more effective

A government that is far removed from the people becomes unaccountable, less responsive, less responsible, less effective, more expensive, and more corrupt.

It is our elected representatives who are ultimately answerable to us. We must therefore make sure that they are the ultimate decision-makers; the ones who debate the bills and pass the laws. We must move away from the idea that state and federal regulators are empowered to adopt the type of rules that can crush our industries and destroy our economy.

Federal regulatory employees in Washington, D.C. have become largely unaccountable to the citizens who pay their salaries and for whom they work. We can no longer tolerate this situation.

We must have a full review of all regulations on the books. We must also impose a temporary moratorium on the adoption of new regulations in Wyoming (with the exception of those necessitated by an emergency). Such moratorium should remain in place until our review is complete and recommendations made for the repeal of all superfluous, outdated, and unnecessary regulations.

We must ensure that our citizens have expedited access to the courts whenever civil or criminal penalties are imposed by a regulatory agency.

We must recognize that government does not create jobs; the private sector does

“Economic development” does not come from the government; it comes from the private sector.

The government does not create jobs; the private sector does.

Our federal government especially is often focused on “trying to fix its last solution.” Private industry, in contrast, is focused upon creating the next boom.

We must unleash our private sector to thrive.

We must rid our government of outdated, burdensome, and counterproductive rules, regulations, and licensing requirements that hinder private industry, innovation, and growth.

We must lower the cost of doing business in Wyoming if we are going to become more competitive in terms of attracting new industries.

We must fight those federal mandates that increase the cost of doing business in Wyoming as compared to other states.

We must practice good government in all branches, in all agencies, and in all aspects of governing

Wyoming citizens are entitled to a cost-effective, efficient, responsible, and responsive government.

Our government must be held accountable to the citizenry that it was created to serve.

We need evidence-based governance. Our public servants, including the Governor, must be able to show that we can and will succeed at fixing an identified problem.

We must have a government that is proportionate in size to our population.

Ensuring that our government is transparent is one of the most basic obligations of public servants, and we cannot waiver on that commitment. We must ensure that the Governor’s office and our state agencies are transparent in their work and how they spend money.

We must make our budgeting process and budget more transparent and less complicated.

We must control spending, not raise taxes

The State of Wyoming should not be spending more money than it takes in.

Any discussion of raising taxes creates uncertainty in the business community, hinders our ability to attract new industries, and stifles job growth.

We must bring our spending in line with our revenues.

We cannot use one-time or “windfall” funds to meet long-term spending obligations.

States that do not overspend, who keep taxes low, and provide for a competitive business climate attract more businesses than those that follow a tax-and-spend model.

Attracting more businesses for the benefit of our citizens should be our goal; not finding ways to generate more tax revenue for the state.

There are simply not enough people in Wyoming who would pay an income tax to generate sufficient revenue to fund our government, especially in light of Article 15, Section 18 of the Wyoming Constitution.

We must fix our structural budget deficits in order to ensure that our children and grandchildren do not suffer for the decisions that we are making today. It is immoral to burden future generations by prolific government spending.

We must provide more transparency in education funding, including providing additional data on the amount of money spent in the classroom, on administration and on overhead

I support our K-12 education, our Community Colleges, and our University of Wyoming, and in fact received an excellent education from all of these institutions.

We must ensure that our students are well educated. We must do so in a cost-effective and efficient manner.

We must be more open and transparent in relation to education funding, including how the money is spent.

We must reduce the costs associated with overhead and administration.

Our school dollars should be focused upon the classroom, including providing adequate teacher pay and benefits to attract and retain the best teachers in the Country.

We must have a robust school curriculum that includes United States and Wyoming history, with an emphasis on our constitution

President Lincoln famously said that “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” We are witnessing a concerted effort on many college campuses to undermine our Republic, our form of government, and our freedoms and liberties as guaranteed by our federal and state Constitutions. Those efforts are tearing our Country apart. Without a shared history we cannot foster and protect a shared future.

We must ensure that our students – our future leaders – understand our foundational documents and our history so that they are prepared to lead, to protect our Republic, and to protect our individual liberties. With the aid of our Wyoming Supreme Court, our Law School, our legislators, and our educators, we will strive to develop a curriculum for our High School students that emphasizes these principles. Such students should be sufficiently proficient in these topics to pass a test formulated to evaluate their knowledge.

We must embrace, support, defend, protect, and advocate for our legacy industries

We must embrace, support, defend, protect and advocate for our legacy industries:

Minerals;

Agriculture; and

Tourism (including hunting, fishing, skiing, and snowmobiling, etc.).

The development, management, and use of our natural resources are what finance the Wyoming economy, including funding our schools, our infrastructure, and our public services (just to name a few). We should be proud of these industries and challenge any effort to limit or destroy our producers and business owners. The development of these resources has improved not only the standard of living of those of us in Wyoming, but the standard of living of citizens throughout the United States and beyond, generating a level of prosperity unrivaled in world history.

We must aggressively market these industries not only in Wyoming and the United States, but throughout the world.

We must fight to defend and support these industries, with the state taking an active role in blocking not only regulatory overreach, but other outside forces that seek to turn Wyoming into something that we do not want, and that seek to prevent us from moving our products to the outside markets.

We must pursue a value-added approach within our existing business structure and industries

We should support our business community to innovate, develop, and manufacture new products using our existing natural resources and industries.

We should focus upon using the byproducts of our existing industries to produce a broader array of goods for intrastate and interstate consumption.

Additive manufacturing (3D printing) frequently uses petroleum-based products as raw materials. Locating a 3D manufacturing plant adjacent to or within a refinery footprint would reduce the energy required for manufacturing.

We must have accountability when undertaking economic development and diversification

Economic development should be for the purpose of bettering our citizens, for creating jobs, and not for growing government.

Our state agencies and boards must be dedicated to fostering economic development and diversification, not stifling it.

We must also have full accountability for any economic development program that is funded with public moneys.

We must have a full accounting of how much “economic development” has cost our local governments and our state to date, and the benefits received.

For all future economic development projects:

we must know prior to approval how much money will be spent and for what purpose;

we must establish detailed goals for each project before approval;

we must identify the measures of success for each project before it is funded; and once the project is completed we must report to the citizens how the promises made compare with the project outcome.

We must reform our health-care system, provide more effective services to our aging population, and help families struggling with mental health issues

The further the decision-maker is from the point of execution the worse the ultimate care will be. The solutions to the health-care situation in this Country are to be found at the local level, not with the federal government.

Wyoming must be willing to innovate in terms of health-care policy and delivery. Wyoming should seek a waiver from certain federal mandates in order to allow this to happen.

Keeping our seniors in their own homes will reduce the long-term cost of care and provide for a better quality of life. We should work with our college system to develop programs focused upon geriatric care.

We must consider ways in which our current regulatory requirements for senior residential facilities hinder our ability to provide high quality care at lower costs, including using our assisted living facilities more effectively.

We have families who are struggling with the mental illness of their loved ones, including sons, daughters, parents, and siblings. We have communities that are struggling to find beds and facilities to treat their citizens who may be suffering from these afflictions. We must find more effective ways of dealing with these situations in order to provide relief and support to our families.

We must protect the most vulnerable among us, including the unborn

I have benefitted greatly because of the family into which I was born. I believe strongly in the importance of stable and healthy families. We must fight to protect and support our families and the family unit.

We have an obligation to help those who are less fortunate than we are.

We must protect the most vulnerable among us, including the unborn. It is clear to me that our humanity depends upon our ability to protect our babies.

We must stop all efforts that seek to take our guns and prevent us from protecting ourselves

Our right to keep and bear arms is guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Our right to keep and bear arms is also guaranteed by Article 1, Section 24 of the Wyoming Constitution.

We have an absolute right to protect ourselves and our families, and the government cannot take that right away.

We must undertake a security assessment of our schools in order to ensure that we are providing the best security that we can.

We must fight against any effort to undermine, weaken, or nullify our rights.

We must protect Wyoming's water

I have spent the last twenty years of my career fighting to protect Wyoming’s water, both as against the demands of down-stream states as well as from the federal government’s overreach and water grabs.

I will fight to protect Wyoming’s water and our users.

I will not tolerate the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) attempting to use the Clean Water Act to prevent us from irrigating our lands and watering our livestock.

We must reform federal land management and access

The federal government owns approximately 30,000,000 acres of land within the State of Wyoming, or 48.2% of our surface estate.

The decisions made by federal land management bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., have caused, among other things, the incidence of ever-increasing catastrophic wild fires, the pine beetle outbreak, destruction of our National Grasslands, the closure of roads and trails providing access to these lands, and reduced financial returns to the American public. The federal government has shown itself to be less than effective at managing these natural resources, causing substantial environmental degradation in the process.

There are many groups that will fight with every resource at their disposal (including in some cases federal funds) to prevent us from implementing new land-management techniques to address these problems – no matter how poorly managed those lands currently are. There are others who talk of Wyoming “taking” these lands through almost any means necessary. So long as we are debating this issue on the extremes – the two polar opposites – nothing will be done, and the status quo will prevail, to the long-term detriment of our environment, our local communities, our citizens, and our state.

Rather than working from the extremes, we must find a middle ground from which to move forward, such as identifying approximately 1,000,000 acres within the state (1/30th of the federal holdings), for alternative management and treatment, with the state taking control of – and being entitled to all income generated from – such lands to show that we are not only better at protecting their environmental attributes, but that we can do so at a lower cost than currently incurred by our federal agencies, while also improving access. It is only through an incremental approach that we will eventually succeed at addressing and resolving these land management issues.

Wyoming must be more aggressive in demanding more access, more use, and more income from federal lands and federal minerals within our borders.

Wyoming should work with the United States Forest Service to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires, including implementing emergency forest management techniques to remove undergrowth and dead trees.

We must ensure that our state lands are properly managed.

We must find a solution to land-locked parcels to ensure that we are able to