U.S. Representative Harriet Hageman (R-WY) sat down with Margaret Byfield at the 2026 Land and Liberty Summit in Fort Worth last month where she discussed several critical actions Congress is taking to rollback 30×30 and advance the property rights agenda.
Rep. Hageman has been leading members to stop and overturn Biden-era plans using the Congressional Review Act (CRA). She explained “for the first time in history, we used the Congressional Review Act to overturn a RMP. The significance of that is we only had to get 51 votes in the Senate and it’s automatically expedited and sent to the president for his signature. And here’s the kicker. They can never adopt a substantially similar regulation again.”
Taking her advice, North Dakota’s congressional delegation – Congresswoman Julie Fedorchak and Senators Kevin Cramer and John Hoeven – introduced a CRA to overturn Biden’s BLM rule that shut down access to four million acres, nearly 99 percent of federal coal mining acreage, and blocked 213,000 acres (44 percent) of oil and gas production in the state.
And on the same day, Montana U.S. Senators Steve Daines and Tim Sheehy, as well as Representatives Troy Downing and Ryan Zinke introduced another CRA joint resolution to overturn Biden’s Miles City Resource Management Plan Amendment (RMPA) that made 2,000,000 acres unavailable for coal leasing causing the loss of $4.32 billion in future revenue to the Montana State land trust beneficiaries.
Hageman said “Their goal was to prevent all oil and gas production, cattle grazing, rights-of-ways, recreation, coal mining and any other productive use using climate change as their excuse.”
In her ASL talk, she listed several more Resource Management Plans that will be overturned by the CRA, including the Rocksprings RMP and the Buffalo District RMP both in Wyoming, her home state.
She stated “All these RMPs were thousands of pages long, affected millions of acres, and were very restrictive” to the local communities nearest the monuments.
Click here to listen to Hariett’s talk. The discussion on CRA’s begins at minute 11:24 and ends at 16:25.
