Harriet Hageman reintroduced three bills last week all protecting private property rights.
The first was H.R. 775, the No Net Gain in Federal Lands Act intended to push back against federal expansion and ensure that land management decisions are returned to the hands of the people where they belong.
The second was H.R. 774, the PASTURES Act, to shield landowners bordering federally leased land by requiring agencies to construct fences before enforcing trespassing penalties after sudden permit adjustments.
And her third was H.R. 773, the SUSTAINS Act, a “misguided Pelosi-backed piece of legislation that changes USDA conservation programs to advance the United Nations’ natural capital accounting agenda on private lands.” ASL discovered this bill last year and started a campaign to get it repealed. See story from November’s LMs here.
Hageman said: “By prioritizing private property rights and local control, my bills seek to empower Wyoming (America’s) landowners, provide more certainty for our communities, and safeguard our livelihoods as intended by the founders.”
Lauren Boebert and Tom Tiffany introduced H.R. 845 to delist the Gray Wolf called the Pet and Livestock Protection Act.
Boebert said: “Gray wolves are threatening the livelihoods of our ranchers and farmers with attacks on livestock because our agriculture community has their hands tied by out-of-date policies and progressive legal activism. This bill enacts a common-sense solution shared by administrations of both parties and prioritizes the strength of our agriculture community over predators.
Tom Tiffany said of the legislation: “Scientific data, coupled with the rise in wolf attacks in Wisconsin, confirms that the gray wolf population has exceeded recovery goals. Yet, activist judges continue to disregard these facts, leaving livestock, pets, wildlife, and communities vulnerable to further harm.”
Paul Gosar’s H.R. 34, called the “Land And Social Security Optimization Act” or “LASSO Act”, requires 10 percent of grazing fees on federal lands and forest receipts to be placed in the Social Security fund to help make it solvent. This is a way to protect and support federal land grazing and timber sales because the more we productively use our lands, the more money is generated for the Social Security fund currently headed towards insolvency.
Gosar said: “This legislation is a win-win. The LASSO Act shores up the component of the Social Security trust funds that pays Social Security benefits to retired workers, their spouses, their children, and survivors of deceased insured workers. This maintains the federal government’s obligation to promote the highest use of public lands. Despite this obligation, our public lands are underperforming, and more than 1.6 million acres of public lands were locked up under the Biden Administration.”
The Old-Age & Survivors Insurance Trust Fund (OAIS) that provides automatic spending authority to pay monthly benefits to retired-worker (old-age) beneficiaries has a shortfall of $70.4 billion stated Gosar.