The person behind the name
Harriet Hageman’s public career runs from three decades as a water and natural-resources litigator in Cheyenne, through a third-place finish in the Republican primary for governor, to two terms as Wyoming’s only member of the U.S. House and the Republican nomination for the Senate.
Her official biography says she grew up on a ranch; the campaign biography calls her a fourth-generation Wyomingite. WyoFile reports that she was born in Douglas and raised on a ranch near Fort Laramie; ABC News, which described her in 2022 as the daughter of a longtime Wyoming state legislator, wrote that she was born and raised on the ranch. Neither her official nor her campaign biography states a birth date; GovTrack lists her age as 63. [1][8][31][38][3]
Education and professional preparation
By her official biography she attended Casper College on a livestock judging scholarship and earned both her bachelor’s degree and her law degree from the University of Wyoming; ABC News specifies a bachelor’s in business administration and a juris doctor from the University of Wyoming College of Law, followed by a clerkship for a federal appeals judge, which WyoFile places on the Tenth Circuit. The official biography describes her as a litigator for 34 years, admitted to practice in several states and before the United States Supreme Court, with extensive experience in complex trials against federal agencies, and known for challenging federal overreach, protecting water and property rights and exposing federal land and wildlife mismanagement. Degree years and bar records were not part of this review. [1][38][42]
A public life that began in a courtroom
From 2001 to 2003 she worked as outside counsel for the State of Wyoming in its suit against the Clinton administration’s roadless forest rule; a federal judge ruled for the state on July 14, 2003, three months after the Attorney General’s office had removed her from the case. In 2016 she was a Wyoming delegate for Senator Ted Cruz at the Republican National Convention. In the August 21, 2018 Republican primary for governor she finished third, with 25,052 votes, 21.5 percent, behind Mark Gordon and Foster Friess. On September 9, 2021 she announced for Congress and received President Trump’s endorsement against Representative Liz Cheney the same day; on August 16, 2022 she won the primary with 113,079 votes to Cheney’s 49,339, and the general election with 132,206 votes, 68.2 percent. She took office on January 3, 2023 and was re-elected on November 5, 2024 with 184,680 votes, 70.6 percent. [48][31][16][40][15][14][3][13]
Senator Cynthia Lummis announced on December 19, 2025 that she would not seek a second term. Hageman announced her Senate campaign on December 23, 2025; President Trump endorsed her that afternoon, and Club for Growth PAC, Secretary of State Chuck Gray and Superintendent of Public Instruction Megan Degenfelder the same day. In the August 18, 2026 primary she received 83,807 votes, 64.7 percent of the votes counted for candidates and write-ins, against four opponents, the nearest being former Kirby mayor Sam Mead with 35,879. She faces the Democratic nominee, James Byrd, a former state representative who received 9,591 votes in his primary and whose campaign describes him as a Wyoming native with a background in business and public service, on November 3, 2026. [32][31][34][12][33][17][11][53]
A note on what the biographies leave out. Her official biography names no family members and states no birth date, and this profile asserts neither. The campaign website’s issues page, as it stood in September 2026, was written before she took office (“When I get to Congress,” it says), and its biography page describes her assignments in the 118th Congress; the Senate campaign had not published a separate platform at the time of this review. The Federal Election Commission’s page for her House candidacy records $3,070,024.92 in receipts and $2,461,850.85 in disbursements by her authorized committees from January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2024, and lists a leadership PAC, 1890 PAC. The FEC’s candidate database records a separate Senate candidacy for the open seat, first filed December 24, 2025, with Hageman for Wyoming, the committee that has filed for her since September 2021, as its principal campaign committee; that candidacy’s 2026 receipts could not be retrieved for this review. [1][8][9][30][50]
Life & public service
From a ranch near Fort Laramie and a Cheyenne law practice to the House and a Senate nomination, the documented milestones show how her record was built.
Wyoming’s roadless-rule suit
Outside counsel to the State of Wyoming against the Forest Service’s roadless rule from May 2001; removed from the case by the Attorney General’s office in April 2003; Judge Clarence Brimmer ruled for the state on July 14, 2003. [48]
Third for governor
25,052 votes, 21.5 percent, in the August 21, 2018 Republican primary, behind Mark Gordon (38,951) and Foster Friess (29,842). [16]
Announces against Cheney
Declared her candidacy on September 9, 2021; President Trump endorsed her the same day, calling Cheney a “warmonger and disloyal Republican.” [40]
Sworn in to the 118th Congress
Took office January 3, 2023; assigned to Natural Resources, Judiciary and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, and chaired the Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs, per her official biography as archived in January 2025. [3][51][8]
Re-elected
184,680 votes, 70.6 percent, against Democrat Kyle Cameron on November 5, 2024. [13]
The Laramie town hall
On March 19, 2025 more than 500 people filled a Laramie civic center for her 74th town hall in three years; she told a jeering crowd, “I’m sorry, you’re hysterical.” [44]
Accomplishments, in the record
Roll calls, bill records, the member’s official pages and the state canvasses establish the following work. Outcomes are described at the level those records support, with shared credit where a measure was carried alongside the state’s senators.
A Congressional Review Act resolution that became law
H.J.Res. 130, introduced by Hageman on October 8, 2025, disapproved the Bureau of Land Management’s Buffalo Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment, the Biden-era plan that ended new federal coal leasing in the Powder River Basin. It passed the House 214–212 on November 18, 2025, passed the Senate on November 20, and was signed on December 11, 2025 as Public Law 119-51. WyoFile reported that Senators Lummis and Barrasso introduced the measure alongside her; GovTrack records the Senate companion, S.J.Res. 89, as fully incorporated. [6][29][47]
Hageman wrote that passing the resolution “will restore our national energy dominance, protect Wyoming jobs and prosperity and reassert Congress’s authority over an unchecked administrative state.” Governor Gordon said the action “ensures that no future federal administration can authorize the large-scale termination of coal leasing in the area.” WyoFile reported that conservation groups objected to overriding a plan shaped by public comment, and that in October a federal coal lease sale on the Montana side of the basin had drawn a single bid while a Wyoming sale was postponed; whether new leases follow is a separate question from the law itself. [47]
Ninety-eight bills, one enacted in its own right
GovTrack lists 98 measures sponsored by Hageman: 41 in the 118th Congress and 57 in the 119th through mid-September 2026. One was enacted in its own right, H.J.Res. 130. GovTrack’s count of two enacted bills adds the Victims’ VOICES Act of the 118th Congress, H.R. 7170, under its rule that a bill whose text is carried by other legislation counts as enacted. [4][3][5]
Six of her bills passed the House without becoming law: a bill authorizing leases of up to 99 years on land held in trust for tribes, passed in April 2024 and again, as H.R. 5910, on March 3, 2026; the Pilot Butte Power Plant Conveyance Act; a technical-corrections bill for Indian-law statutes; H.R. 677, EARA; and H.R. 1001, on a memorandum of understanding for the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund. Eleven more were ordered reported, including the Grizzly Bear State Management Act in both Congresses, the Promoting Free and Fair Elections Act and the Grasslands Grazing Act of 2025. Her official page says her legislation has focused on “reining in the regulatory state.” [4][1]
For the 118th Congress GovTrack ranked her fifth among House freshmen for introducing the most bills (41), third for bills with a Senate companion (nine), and fifth for bills reported out of committee (ten). Ten of the 41 had a cosponsor from another party; of the 308 bills she cosponsored, 5 percent were introduced by non-Republicans, which placed her 31st least often among all representatives. [5]
Natural Resources, Judiciary and two select panels
In the 119th Congress she chairs the Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries and sits on Energy and Mineral Resources; on Judiciary she serves on the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government and the Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust. In September 2025 Speaker Johnson appointed her to the Select Subcommittee to Investigate the Remaining Questions Surrounding January 6, 2021. In the 118th Congress, by her official biography as archived in January 2025 and by the campaign biography, she chaired the Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs and sat on the Judiciary Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Her official page also lists her as chair of the Republican Study Committee’s Article One Task Force and of the Anti-Woke Caucus, co-chair of the Coal Caucus and vice chair of the Western Caucus. [1][2][3][46][51][8]
Taking the water-and-wildlife gavel in January 2025, she introduced companion bills to bar implementation of the BLM’s Rock Springs and Buffalo resource management plans and a bill to require delisting of Greater Yellowstone grizzly bears, and wrote that she looked forward to working “to return wildlife and resource management to local control.” A BLM deputy director had told lawmakers that her earlier Rock Springs bill “would undermine the public’s right to provide input on the management of public lands.” The grizzly bill was ordered reported in July 2025; the Buffalo plan was ultimately undone by H.J.Res. 130 rather than by the January bill. [45][4][6]
Three recorded votes on the border
Hageman voted Yea on H.R. 2, the Secure the Border Act, at passage on May 11, 2023 (219–213); Yea on February 13, 2024 to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas (214–213); and Yea on January 22, 2025 on the Laken Riley Act (263–156). These are recorded votes, not authorship. [19][22][26]
No on the debt deal, Nay on Ukraine, Aye on the 2025 tax law
She voted No on the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, the debt-limit agreement, which passed 314–117 on May 31, 2023; Nay on the Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act on April 20, 2024, which passed 311–112; and Aye on July 3, 2025 on the motion that sent H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, to the President, 218–214. [20][25][27]
On November 18, 2025 she voted Aye on the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which passed 427–1. [28]
A warrant requirement that failed on a tie
On April 12, 2024 she voted Aye on the Biggs amendment to H.R. 7888, H.Amdt. 876, which GovTrack’s vote record describes as prohibiting warrantless searches of Americans’ communications in the FISA Section 702 database, with exceptions for imminent threats, consent searches and known cybersecurity threat signatures; it failed 212–212. She then voted No on the reauthorization itself, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, which passed 273–147. Her campaign issues page says FISA “must be reformed to restrict the government from circumventing the Fourth Amendment.” [23][49][24][9]
With McCarthy on the first ballot and against his removal
On the first ballot for Speaker on January 3, 2023, Hageman voted for Kevin McCarthy, who received 203 votes to Hakeem Jeffries’s 212 while ten Republicans voted for Andy Biggs and six for Jim Jordan. On October 3, 2023 she voted Nay on the resolution declaring the Speaker’s office vacant, which carried 216–210. GovTrack lists her as a member of the Freedom Caucus, with the caveat that its caucus data may be incomplete. [18][21][3]
Attendance, ideology and ratings, measured
Hageman missed 26 of 1,917 roll-call votes from January 2023 to September 2026, 1.4 percent, better than the 2.1 percent median GovTrack reports for sitting representatives; 19 of the 26 came in April to June 2024. In the 118th Congress she missed 24 of 1,241 (1.9 percent). Voteview’s DW-NOMINATE score for the 119th Congress places her at 0.636 on the conservative–liberal dimension, a score shared with two other members and exceeded by 58 of the 227 House Republicans in its file; GovTrack’s cosponsorship-based analysis ranked her fifth most politically right among the 118th Congress’s House freshmen. [3][5][7]
The Club for Growth Foundation’s scorecard, keyed to the same Bioguide identifier the Clerk of the House uses, gives her a lifetime score of 98 and a rank of 1, with annual scores of 100 in 2023, 94 in 2024 and 100 in 2025 and its Defender of Economic Freedom award in each of those years; the Club’s PAC, endorsing her in December 2025, cited a lifetime rating of 97 percent. Heritage Action scores her 96 percent for the 119th Congress and 97 percent lifetime; the League of Conservation Voters 0 percent for 2025 and 1 percent lifetime. [35][34][36][37]
The roadless rule, as a hired litigator
High Country News published a timeline of the case in 2009: retained by the state in 2001, she filed Wyoming’s complaint against the Forest Service’s roadless rule on May 18, 2001, pressed the agency to produce its rulemaking record, and in March 2002 added a Federal Advisory Committee Act claim against the environmental groups that had worked with the Clinton administration. After Governor Freudenthal took office in January 2003 the Attorney General’s office dropped that claim and, on April 21, 2003, removed her from the case; Attorney General Crank said the change was part of moving cases to staff lawyers, and Hageman said she was fired for political reasons. On July 14, 2003 Judge Brimmer set the rule aside. Her official biography describes 34 years of complex trials against federal agencies; ABC News reported her claim to have “stopped the EPA from seizing control of our irrigation infrastructure and operations,” which this review did not test against a court record. [48][1][38]
Family & community
Her official biography says she grew up on a ranch and names no family members; the campaign biography describes her as a fourth-generation Wyomingite who “learned the value of hard work, honesty, and integrity.” ABC News reported in 2022 that she is the daughter of a longtime Wyoming state legislator. This profile records those statements as made and goes no further. [1][8][38]
In Congress her official page lists her as chair of the Republican Study Committee’s Article One Task Force, chair of the Anti-Woke Caucus, co-chair of the Congressional Coal Caucus and vice chair of the Western Caucus; GovTrack lists her in the Freedom Caucus. She told the Laramie audience in March 2025 that the meeting was her 74th town hall in three years. [2][1][3][44]
Neither her official biography nor her campaign biography states a religious affiliation, and this profile makes no claim about one. The sources reviewed document family, residence and public roles as the candidate states them; they do not supply a verified record of charitable board service, and none is asserted.
Mission & priorities
“I have fought regulators and bureaucrats in court; now I will do it in Congress.” {9}
The following summarizes the issues page on Hageman’s campaign website, written before she took office and still its platform in September 2026, read against the votes and bills that bear on each item. These are stated positions, not completed accomplishments. [9]
01The Constitution and the administrative state
The campaign says “Congress created this mess, and Congress must fix it” and promises “real and fundamental reform of the Administrative State,” alongside the Second Amendment and free speech. The record shows her seat on the Judiciary subcommittee for the administrative state, the Article One Task Force chairmanship, and H.J.Res. 130, which she framed as reasserting “Congress’s authority over an unchecked administrative state.” [9][2][47]
02Spending and taxes
“In Congress, I will fight any effort to raise taxes and, instead, focus on ways to cut both federal spending and taxes.” The record shows a No vote on the 2023 debt-limit agreement, an Aye on H.R. 1 in 2025, and Club for Growth Foundation scores of 100, 94 and 100 for 2023 through 2025. [9][20][27][35]
03The border
04Energy and federal land management
The campaign promises to “protect our oil, gas and coal industries” and to hold the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management accountable in a state where, it says, almost half the surface is federally owned. The record shows the Buffalo Field Office resolution enacted in December 2025, bills against the Rock Springs plan, the grizzly delisting bill reported in 2025, and the Coal Caucus co-chairmanship. [9][6][45][4][2]
05Election integrity
“There is also no good, commonsense argument against requiring people to show identification to vote,” the campaign says, and calls for an end to unrequested mailed ballots. The record shows her Promoting Free and Fair Elections Act of 2023 ordered reported in November 2023 without further action; no election-law roll call was read for this review. [9][4]
06Surveillance and FISA
07Abortion
The campaign states that “a unique human life is formed at the moment of conception” and that she “will strongly support laws that seek to ensure their safety.” No abortion-related roll call or bill was read for this review, and no rating on the subject is reported here. [9]
08Foreign aid and “America First”
How to assess a proposal. A campaign plan states an intention. Enactment, implementation costs, replacement revenue, and measured results are separate questions. These priorities should be read alongside the legislative and voting history above.
The fuller record
A useful profile includes the limits of a claim, reversals, and the candidate’s answers to material criticism. The items below are drawn from primary documents and independent reporting, with Hageman’s response where one is on record.
2016: a Cruz delegate who called Trump “racist and xenophobic”
In 2016 Hageman was a Wyoming delegate for Senator Ted Cruz and joined other Cruz supporters at the national convention in trying to force a floor vote against Donald Trump’s nomination; The New York Times reported, and ABC News and CNN repeated, that she called Trump “racist and xenophobic” that year, and CNN published video of her introducing Liz Cheney as “my friend” at a 2016 event. She had advised Cheney’s 2014 Senate campaign. Asked about it in 2021 she told the Times she “heard and believed the lies the Democrats and Liz Cheney's friends in the media were telling at the time,” adding, “He was the greatest president of my lifetime, and I am proud to have been able to renominate him in 2020.” The reversal is documented on both ends; Trump endorsed her on September 9, 2021. [38][39][40]
“The election was rigged” and the lawyers’ letter
Shortly before the 2022 primary, at a candidate forum in Casper, Hageman said, “absolutely the election was rigged. It was rigged to make sure that President Trump could not get reelected.” On September 12, 2022, 41 Wyoming attorneys and retired judges, among them a former chief justice of the state supreme court and a former attorney general, wrote to her that the comments “were not supportive of the Rule of Law, have contributed to destabilizing our democratic institutions, and were inconsistent with our collective duties as members of the Wyoming bar.” Her press release answered that “There remain serious questions about that election,” called the letter a threat to file a bar complaint, and said her fellow lawyers were “trying to squelch my own 1st Amendment rights because they disagree with me.” The signers said they had not sent the letter to the bar; the bar would neither confirm nor deny any complaint. [41]
The July 2024 remarks about Vice President Harris
On July 23, 2024, in an interview recorded by a Gray DC reporter, Hageman called Vice President Kamala Harris “one of the weakest candidates I’ve ever seen in the history of our country” and “intellectually, just really kind of the bottom of the barrel,” adding, “I think she was a DEI hire and I think that that’s what we’re seeing, and I just don’t think that they have anybody else.” The Wyoming Democratic Party called the remarks racist and demanded an apology. Hageman replied on X: “If you don’t want people to say she was hired only because she’s a black woman, then maybe Biden shouldn’t have said he was only gonna hire a black woman,” and told The Hill that “Joe Biden himself said he preferred a vice president based on their race and gender.” Speaker Johnson said that week that the election would be about policies, not personalities. [42][43]
The Laramie town hall
On March 19, 2025, as House Republican leaders were urging members to avoid in-person town halls, Hageman held one in Laramie; more than 500 people attended and booed her onto the stage. Asked about the fate of Grand Teton and Yellowstone, she said, “It’s so bizarre to me how obsessed you are with the federal government,” and later, “You guys are going to have a heart attack if you don’t calm down,” and “I’m sorry, you’re hysterical.” To a constituent who said she had been dismissed from a Department of Agriculture drought job, she said, “I disagree,” and argued that farmers and ranchers would thrive with less regulation. She ended the event, scheduled for an hour, after about 52 minutes and, unlike after earlier town halls, did not meet the press. [44]
Public lands: the 2018 race and the 2003 contract
ABC News reported that in the 2018 governor’s race Hageman supported transferring control of federal public lands to the states, and that a hunting and public-lands group endorsed Mark Gordon over her for that reason; her 2022 campaign pages instead promise multiple-use enforcement and accountability for federal land agencies, and the Democratic nominee’s 2026 platform makes opposition to selling public lands its second plank. In June 2025, when a Senate committee’s reconciliation text would have required the sale of some Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service land for housing, she told Cowboy State Daily that a Wilderness Society map showing nearly 15 million acres of Wyoming as eligible was wrong, that only small parcels near communities would be affected, and that she would consider the measure “without prejudice” if it reached the House; the group stood by its map. In the roadless-rule case, the state paid her firm more than $150,000 by early 2003, according to a conservation group’s letter quoted by High Country News, before the Attorney General’s office took the case in-house; she said she had offered to keep working for free and had been fired for political reasons. [38][9][10][52][48]
January 6, from the other side of the dais
Hageman won her seat by defeating the vice chair of the House’s January 6 committee. In September 2025 Speaker Johnson named her to the new Select Subcommittee to Investigate the Remaining Questions Surrounding January 6, 2021, whose chairman said there was “more politics than there was truth” in the original report. WyoFile noted that she had cosponsored a resolution “expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that former President Trump did not engage in insurrection or rebellion against, nor give aid or comfort to the enemies of the United States,” and signed an amicus brief on the sentencing of January 6 defendants. The subcommittee’s report is due by the end of 2026; its findings, when issued, will be those of a committee, not a court. [46][3]
Questions & answers
Who is Harriet Hageman?
Harriet Hageman’s public career runs from three decades as a water and natural-resources litigator in Cheyenne, through a third-place finish in the Republican primary for governor, to two terms as Wyoming’s only member of the U.S. House and the Republican nomination for the Senate. Her official biography says she grew up on a ranch; the campaign biography calls her a fourth-generation Wyomingite. WyoFile reports that she was born in Douglas and raised on a ranch near Fort Laramie; ABC News, which described her in 2022 as the daughter of a longtime Wyoming state legislator, wrote that she was born and raised on the ranch. Neither her official nor her campaign biography states a birth date; GovTrack lists her age as 63. [1][8][31][38][3]
What office is Harriet Hageman running for in 2026?
Who is Harriet Hageman running against?
Senator Cynthia Lummis announced on December 19, 2025 that she would not seek a second term. Hageman announced her Senate campaign on December 23, 2025; President Trump endorsed her that afternoon, and Club for Growth PAC, Secretary of State Chuck Gray and Superintendent of Public Instruction Megan Degenfelder the same day. In the August 18, 2026 primary she received 83,807 votes, 64.7 percent of the votes counted for candidates and write-ins, against four opponents, the nearest being former Kirby mayor Sam Mead with 35,879. She faces the Democratic nominee, James Byrd, a former state representative who received 9,591 votes in his primary and whose campaign describes him as a Wyoming native with a background in business and public service, on November 3, 2026. [32][31][34][12][33][17][11][53]
What are Harriet Hageman's stated priorities?
The following summarizes the issues page on Hageman’s campaign website, written before she took office and still its platform in September 2026, read against the votes and bills that bear on each item. These are stated positions, not completed accomplishments. [9] The campaign lists: The Constitution and the administrative state; Spending and taxes; The border; Energy and federal land management; Election integrity; Surveillance and FISA; Abortion; Foreign aid and “America First”.
What does the public record show?
Roll calls, bill records, the member’s official pages and the state canvasses establish the following work. Outcomes are described at the level those records support, with shared credit where a measure was carried alongside the state’s senators. H.J.Res. 130, introduced by Hageman on October 8, 2025, disapproved the Bureau of Land Management’s Buffalo Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment, the Biden-era plan that ended new federal coal leasing in the Powder River Basin. It passed the House 214–212 on November 18, 2025, passed the Senate on November 20, and was signed on December 11, 2025 as Public Law 119-51. WyoFile reported that Senators Lummis and Barrasso introduced the measure alongside her; GovTrack records the Senate companion, S.J.Res. 89, as fully incorporated. [6][29][47]
How was this profile researched?
Reviewed September 17, 2026. This is a documented overview of publicly available biography, major actions and stated priorities, not an exhaustive vote-by-vote record; twelve House roll calls were read for it and the defining ones are cited. Numerical claims retain their original meaning and attribution; percentages of the vote were computed from the Secretary of State’s official summaries, with write-in votes in the denominator and undervotes and overvotes excluded; historical sources do not imply current positions. Degree years, bar and license records, court dockets for her private practice, and personal financial disclosures were not part of this review. Ballotpedia, Congress.gov, the Biographical Directory of Congress and OpenSecrets declined automated retrieval, and the Federal Election Commission’s API was rate-limited after returning the Senate candidacy record, so GovTrack, the FEC’s public candidate page for her House candidacy, the FEC’s candidate search record for her Senate candidacy and the state canvasses are cited in their place; the Senate campaign committee’s 2026 financial reports could not be read for this review. An archived copy of her official biography, captured in January 2025, is cited for her committee assignments in the 118th Congress. The profile was independently fact-checked against the cited documents on September 17, 2026. Filings and campaign pages may change after this review.
Sources & methodology
Government records anchor the profile: the Clerk’s roll calls, the Wyoming Secretary of State’s official summaries, the Federal Election Commission’s candidate record and the member’s official pages; independent analyses (GovTrack, Voteview) and advocacy ratings (Club for Growth Foundation, Heritage Action, the League of Conservation Voters) are labeled as such; reporting supplies responses and scrutiny; campaign materials are used for the candidate’s and her opponent’s own statements.
- 01About | Congresswoman Harriet Hageman (official House biography)hageman.house.gov · Accessed September 17, 2026
Official biography: ranch upbringing, Casper College, University of Wyoming degrees, 34 years as a litigator, bar admissions, 119th-Congress committee posts and the Coal Caucus co-chairmanship.Government record - 02Committees and Caucuses | Congresswoman Harriet Hagemanhageman.house.gov · Accessed September 17, 2026
Judiciary and Natural Resources assignments and subcommittees in the 119th Congress; caucus roles: RSC Article One Task Force chair, Anti-Woke Caucus chair, Coal Caucus co-chair, Western Caucus vice chair.Government record - 03Rep. Harriet Hageman — member page, committee list and missed-votes recordGovTrack.us · Accessed September 17, 2026
Service since January 3, 2023; age 63; Freedom Caucus membership (with GovTrack’s caveat); committee and select-subcommittee list; 26 of 1,917 roll calls missed (1.4 percent) and the quarterly breakdown; two enacted measures under GovTrack’s inclusive definition.Independent analysis or rating - 04Bills and resolutions sponsored by Harriet Hageman, 2023–2026 (98 records)GovTrack.us (API) · Accessed September 17, 2026
Status of every sponsored measure: 41 in the 118th Congress and 57 in the 119th; one enacted in its own right (H.J.Res. 130); six passed the House; eleven ordered reported. Machine-readable list; the member page shows the same record.Independent analysis or rating - 052024 Report Card, Rep. Harriet Hageman (118th Congress)GovTrack.us · Updated February 13, 2025
41 bills introduced; 10 out of committee; 9 with Senate companions; ranked 5th most politically right among House freshmen; 308 bills cosponsored, 5 percent from non-Republicans; 24 of 1,241 votes missed (1.9 percent); one law counted, the Victims’ VOICES Act, via incorporation.Independent analysis or rating - 06H.J.Res. 130 (119th Congress) — bill status pageGovTrack.us · Accessed September 17, 2026
Introduced October 8, 2025; passed the House November 18 and the Senate November 20, 2025; signed December 11, 2025 as Public Law 119-51; Senate companion S.J.Res. 89 incorporated; one cosponsor.Independent analysis or rating - 07DW-NOMINATE member data, 119th Congress, House (H119_members.csv)Voteview (UCLA) · Accessed September 17, 2026
First-dimension score 0.636 for Hageman. Her standing among the 227 House Republicans in the file (58 higher, two tied with her) was computed from it for this profile.Independent analysis or rating - 08About Harriet | Harriet Hageman for Wyoming (campaign home page)Hageman for Wyoming (campaign) · Accessed September 17, 2026
Campaign biography: fourth-generation Wyomingite; 118th-Congress committee list including the Weaponization subcommittee and the Indian and Insular Affairs chairmanship; the 2021–2022 campaign in the campaign’s own numbers. Self-descriptions.Campaign or advocacy material - 09Harriet On The Issues | Harriet Hageman for WyomingHageman for Wyoming (campaign) · Accessed September 17, 2026
The thirteen issue statements on the page, from which this profile quotes; written before she took office and still the site’s issues page in September 2026. Positions, not record.Campaign or advocacy material - 10Issues | Byrd for SenateByrd for Senate (opponent’s campaign) · Accessed September 17, 2026
The Democratic nominee’s stated platform: gas and grocery prices, public lands, health care, data centers, ranching. Opponent’s self-descriptions.Campaign or advocacy material - 11About | Byrd for SenateByrd for Senate (opponent’s campaign) · Accessed September 17, 2026
The Democratic nominee’s campaign biography: Wyoming native, family homesteaded in 1862, business and public-service background. Opponent’s self-descriptions.Campaign or advocacy material - 12Statewide Candidates Official Summary — Wyoming Primary Election, August 18, 2026Wyoming Secretary of State · August 2026
U.S. Senate, Republican: Hageman 83,807; Mead 35,879; Skovgard 3,527; Edwards 3,431; Holtz 2,539; write-ins 422. Democratic: Byrd 9,591; Benavidez 2,499; write-ins 273. Percentages in this profile were computed from these totals.Government record - 13Statewide Candidates Official Summary — Wyoming General Election, November 5, 2024Wyoming Secretary of State · November 2024
U.S. Representative: Hageman (R) 184,680; Cameron (D) 60,778; Brubaker (L) 9,223; Haggit (C) 5,362; write-ins 1,505.Government record - 14Statewide Candidates Official Summary — Wyoming General Election, November 8, 2022Wyoming Secretary of State · November 2022
U.S. Representative: Hageman (R) 132,206; GreyBull (D) 47,250; Brubaker (L) 5,420; Selvig (C) 4,505; write-ins 4,521.Government record - 15Statewide Candidates Official Summary — Wyoming Primary Election, August 16, 2022Wyoming Secretary of State · August 2022
U.S. Representative, Republican: Hageman 113,079; Cheney 49,339; Bouchard 4,508; Knapp 2,258; Belinskey 1,306; write-ins 175.Government record - 16Statewide Candidates Official Summary — Wyoming Primary Election, August 21, 2018Wyoming Secretary of State · August 2018
Governor, Republican: Gordon 38,951; Friess 29,842; Hageman 25,052; Galeotos 14,554; Haynes 6,511; Dahlin 1,763; write-ins 113.Government record - 17Election Results (index of official results, 1996–2026)Wyoming Secretary of State · Accessed September 17, 2026
The office’s results index; its structured data records the 2026 primary election on August 18, 2026 and the general election on November 3, 2026.Government record - 18Roll call 2, January 3, 2023 — election of the Speaker, first ballotClerk of the U.S. House · January 3, 2023
Hageman voted for McCarthy; the ballot recorded Jeffries 212, McCarthy 203, Biggs 10, Jordan 6, and one vote each for Banks, Zeldin and Donalds.Government record - 19Roll call 209, May 11, 2023 — H.R. 2, Secure the Border Act, passageClerk of the U.S. House · May 11, 2023
Hageman recorded Yea; passed 219–213.Government record - 20Roll call 243, May 31, 2023 — H.R. 3746, Fiscal Responsibility Act, passageClerk of the U.S. House · May 31, 2023
Hageman recorded No; passed 314–117.Government record - 21Roll call 519, October 3, 2023 — H.Res. 757, declaring the office of Speaker vacantClerk of the U.S. House · October 3, 2023
Hageman recorded Nay; the motion carried 216–210.Government record - 22Roll call 43, February 13, 2024 — H.Res. 863, impeaching Secretary MayorkasClerk of the U.S. House · February 13, 2024
Hageman recorded Yea; agreed to 214–213.Government record - 23Roll call 114, April 12, 2024 — Biggs amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888 (warrant requirement under Section 702)Clerk of the U.S. House · April 12, 2024
Hageman recorded Aye; the amendment failed on a 212–212 tie.Government record - 24Roll call 119, April 12, 2024 — H.R. 7888, Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, passageClerk of the U.S. House · April 12, 2024
Hageman recorded No; passed 273–147.Government record - 25Roll call 151, April 20, 2024 — H.R. 8035, Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, passageClerk of the U.S. House · April 20, 2024
Hageman recorded Nay; passed 311–112.Government record - 26Roll call 23, January 22, 2025 — S. 5, Laken Riley Act, passageClerk of the U.S. House · January 22, 2025
Hageman recorded Yea; passed 263–156.Government record - 27Roll call 190, July 3, 2025 — H.R. 1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act, motion to concur in the Senate amendmentClerk of the U.S. House · July 3, 2025
Hageman recorded Aye; agreed to 218–214.Government record - 28Roll call 289, November 18, 2025 — H.R. 4405, Epstein Files Transparency Act, suspensionClerk of the U.S. House · November 18, 2025
Hageman recorded Aye; passed 427–1.Government record - 29Roll call 294, November 18, 2025 — H.J.Res. 130, disapproval of the Buffalo Field Office plan amendment, passageClerk of the U.S. House · November 18, 2025
Hageman recorded Yea on her own resolution; passed 214–212.Government record - 30HAGEMAN, HARRIET — candidate overview, H2WY00166Federal Election Commission · Accessed September 17, 2026
House candidacy: $3,070,024.92 in total receipts and $2,461,850.85 in disbursements by her authorized committees, January 1, 2023 to December 31, 2024; statement of candidacy for 2026 filed June 6, 2025; sponsored leadership PAC, 1890 PAC. No 2025–2026 data is shown under this House identifier.Government record - 31Wyoming’s Rep. Harriet Hageman announces run for U.S. SenateWyoFile (Maggie Mullen) · December 23, 2025
The announcement video; Trump’s same-day endorsement post; endorsements from Secretary of State Gray, Superintendent Degenfelder and Club for Growth PAC; biographical summary (born in Douglas, raised near Fort Laramie, Cruz delegate in 2016, third in the 2018 governor’s primary).Independent reporting - 32Wyoming Sen. Cynthia Lummis will not run for reelection in 2026Roll Call (Daniela Altimari and Jackie Wang) · December 19, 2025
Lummis’s retirement statement; her March 2025 endorsement from President Trump; Hageman’s tribute; the state has not elected a Democratic senator since 1970.Independent reporting - 33Trump-backed Rep. Harriet Hageman wins Republican Senate primary in WyomingNBC News (Megan Brand) · August 18, 2026
The projected primary result; Trump’s endorsement wording; the four-candidate field including former Kirby mayor Sam Mead.Independent reporting - 34Club for Growth PAC Endorses Harriet Hageman in WY-SEN RaceClub for Growth PAC · December 23, 2025
The PAC’s endorsement release, citing a Club for Growth Foundation lifetime rating of 97 percent and its 2022 endorsement against Cheney.Independent analysis or rating - 35Congressional Scorecard — Harriet Hageman (WY-00), legislator page H001096Club for Growth Foundation · Accessed September 17, 2026
2025 score 100, lifetime 98, rank 1; annual scores 100 (2023), 94 (2024) and 100 (2025); Defender of Economic Freedom awards for 2023, 2024 and 2025. Keyed to the Bioguide identifier the Clerk uses.Independent analysis or rating - 36Scorecard: Rep. Harriet Hageman, 119th CongressHeritage Action for America · Accessed September 17, 2026
Session score 96 percent; lifetime 97 percent.Independent analysis or rating - 37National Environmental Scorecard: Harriet HagemanLeague of Conservation Voters · Accessed September 17, 2026
2025 score 0 percent; lifetime 1 percent.Independent analysis or rating - 38Who is Harriet Hageman, the Trump-backed candidate who beat Liz Cheney?ABC News (Isabella Murray) · August 16, 2022
Profile on primary night: the 2016 “racist and xenophobic” remark and her 2021 explanation to The New York Times; degrees, clerkship and law practice; adviser to Cheney’s 2014 Senate campaign; the 2018 public-lands dispute; the ‘Wicked Witch of the West’ nickname.Independent reporting - 39Harriet Hageman once rebuked Trump and endorsed Liz Cheney. She’s now challenging her with his supportCNN (KFile) · September 30, 2021
Video of Hageman introducing Cheney as “my friend” at the 2016 Wyoming Republican convention; her vote to unbind delegates at the national convention; her statement to CNN. The page’s text does not extract for the automated quote check, so quotations on the 2016 record are drawn from ABC News; the article was read for this review and supports the statements attributed to it.Independent reporting - 40Trump endorses Liz Cheney primary challenger Harriet HagemanCBS News · September 9, 2021
Trump’s endorsement statement on the day Hageman announced; her Facebook announcement; Cheney’s response.Independent reporting - 41Wyoming lawyers, judges slam Hageman’s ‘rigged election’ stanceWyoFile (Maggie Mullen) · September 23, 2022
Her Casper forum statement that the 2020 election was rigged; the September 12, 2022 letter from 41 attorneys and retired judges; her press-release response.Independent reporting - 42Wyoming Dems demand Hageman apologize for calling Harris a ‘DEI hire’WyoFile (Maggie Mullen) · July 25, 2024
The July 23, 2024 remarks as recorded on video; the state party’s demand; her reply on X; her 10th Circuit clerkship.Independent reporting - 43Wyoming Democrats Angry That Rep. Hageman Called Kamala Harris A ‘DEI Hire’Cowboy State Daily (Leo Wolfson) · July 25, 2024
Second account of the remarks, with her statement to The Hill on why she made them.Independent reporting - 44Crowd jeers Hageman at tense Laramie town hall. She calls them ‘hysterical.’WyoFile (Maggie Mullen) · March 20, 2025
The March 19, 2025 town hall: more than 500 attendees, her exchanges with constituents, and her count of 74 town halls in three years.Independent reporting - 45In new leadership post, Hageman takes fresh aim at federal land, grizzly policiesWyoFile (Mike Koshmrl) · January 10, 2025
Her subcommittee chairmanship; the Rock Springs and Buffalo resource-management-plan bills; the grizzly delisting bill; the BLM’s testimony against her earlier Rock Springs bill.Independent reporting - 46Hageman defeated Cheney. She’s now slated to join a distinctly different Jan. 6th panelWyoFile (Maggie Mullen) · September 15, 2025
Speaker Johnson’s appointment of Hageman to the select subcommittee; the resolution she cosponsored on the former President and insurrection; the amicus brief on January 6 sentences.Independent reporting - 47Congress advances effort to overturn Biden-era coal leasing ban in WyomingWyoFile (Dustin Bleizeffer) · November 21, 2025
H.J.Res. 130 in context: the Buffalo Field Office plan, the Congressional Review Act mechanism, Hageman’s and Governor Gordon’s statements, and conservation groups’ objections.Independent reporting - 48The Wicked Witch of the WestHigh Country News (Ray Ring) · November 6, 2009
Timeline of the roadless-rule litigation: outside counsel for Wyoming from 2001 to 2003, the Federal Advisory Committee Act claim, her removal from the case in April 2003, Judge Brimmer’s July 14, 2003 ruling for the state.Independent reporting - 49House Vote 114, April 12, 2024 — H.Amdt. 876 (Biggs) to H.R. 7888GovTrack.us · April 12, 2024
GovTrack’s record of the amendment vote, giving the amendment’s title: to prohibit warrantless searches of U.S. person communications in the FISA 702 database, with stated exceptions. Hageman recorded Aye; failed 212–212.Independent analysis or rating - 50Candidate search: HAGEMAN, HARRIET — Senate, Wyoming, 2026 (S6WY00209)Federal Election Commission (OpenFEC API) · Accessed September 17, 2026
Senate candidate identifier S6WY00209, first filed December 24, 2025, open seat; principal campaign committee Hageman for Wyoming (C00788943), filing since September 9, 2021. Machine-readable record; the candidacy’s totals could not be retrieved.Government record - 51About | Congresswoman Harriet Hageman (official House biography, archived copy) (Internet Archive copy, captured 2024)hageman.house.gov, via the Internet Archive · Captured January 5, 2025
The official biography as it read at the end of the 118th Congress: Chair of the Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs, member of the Water, Wildlife and Fisheries subcommittee, the two Judiciary subcommittees and the Select Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government.Government record - 52Hageman Says Vast Swaths Of Wyoming Public Lands Won’t Be SoldCowboy State Daily (Mark Heinz) · June 18, 2025
Her June 2025 statements on the Senate reconciliation provision for mandatory federal land sales, and the Wilderness Society’s response.Independent reporting - 53Wyoming Republican Chuck Gray poised to succeed Hageman in HouseRoll Call (Daniela Altimari) · August 19, 2026
Primary-night report: Hageman won the Senate nomination and faces Democratic former state Representative James Byrd.Independent reporting
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Voting in Wyoming: official dates, deadlines and rules
The general election is Tuesday, November 3, 2026. The dates and rules below were read from the Wyoming Secretary of State; the authority's own page, linked beside each one, is the final word.
Dates and deadlines
- Voter registration deadline (by mail or at the county clerk's office)October 19, 2026 — voter registration closes for the general election. After that date a voter may still register in person while casting an absentee ballot, October 20 – November 2, 2026, or register at the polling place on Election Day, November 3, 2026. Read from: sos.wyo.gov/Elections/Docs/2026/2026_Key_Election_Dates.pdf
- Registering at the polls on Election Day (and while voting absentee in person)Yes. On Election Day, November 3, 2026, voters may register and vote at their polling places. After registration closes, voters may still register in person and cast an absentee ballot from October 20 to November 2, 2026. Registering requires acceptable identification, proof of U.S. citizenship and proof of Wyoming residence. Read from: sos.wyo.gov/Elections/Docs/2026/2026_Key_Election_Dates.pdf
- Absentee ballots sent to voters who requested oneOctober 6, 2026 (28 days before the election) — absentee ballots for the general election are sent to voters who requested one; requests received after that date are sent as soon as possible. Ballots for military and overseas (UOCAVA) voters go out earlier: the Election Calendar lists September 18, 2026, and the absentee voting page describes that lead time as 45 days before the election. Read from: sos.wyo.gov/Elections/Docs/2026/2026_Election_Calendar.pdf
- Absentee voting begins (by mail and in person)October 6, 2026 — absentee voting for the general election begins, 28 days before the election, by mail and in person. Wyoming's official pages describe voting before Election Day as absentee voting; a voter obtains the absentee ballot from the county clerk's office. Read from: sos.wyo.gov/Elections/Docs/2026/2026_Election_Calendar.pdf
- Absentee voting ends (last day to vote absentee in person)November 2, 2026 — last day of the absentee voting period for the general election. Absentee ballots are not issued on Election Day. Read from: sos.wyo.gov/Elections/Docs/2026/2026_Key_Election_Dates.pdf
- Last day to request an absentee ballotNovember 2, 2026 — the Secretary of State prints no separate cut-off date: its key election dates sheet says “Absentee ballots may be requested at any time in 2026 prior to the day of an election”, which makes the day before Election Day the last day to ask. A ballot requested that late must still reach the county clerk's office by 7:00 p.m. on Election Day, November 3, 2026, and the office's absentee voting page notes that mail delivery within the county may take up to seven (7) days, and longer if the mailing address is outside the county. Read from: sos.wyo.gov/Elections/Docs/2026/2026_Key_Election_Dates.pdf
- Deadline to return an absentee ballot (received by the county clerk)November 3, 2026, 7:00 p.m. — all absentee ballots must be received in the county clerk's office no later than 7:00 p.m. on Election Day, whether mailed or delivered in person. A ballot that arrives after the deadline is not counted. Read from: sos.wyo.gov/Elections/State/AbsenteeVoting.aspx
- Poll hoursPolls are open from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Election Day, November 3, 2026, or until the last person in line at 7 p.m. has voted. Read from: sos.wyo.gov/Elections/Docs/2026/2026_Election_Calendar.pdf
Rules to know
- What to bringWyoming voters are required to show an acceptable form of identification when voting in person. The Secretary of State lists: WY driver's license or ID card; tribal ID card; valid U.S. passport; U.S. military card; driver's license or ID card from another state; University of Wyoming student ID; Wyoming community college student ID; Wyoming public school student ID; valid Medicare insurance card; valid Medicaid insurance card; valid Wyoming concealed firearm permit. The office notes that Medicare and Medicaid cards will no longer be accepted after December 31, 2029. Voters who mail in their absentee ballot are not required to provide any additional form of identification. A voter who arrives without ID may leave to get it and return, or vote a provisional ballot; that ballot counts only if the voter brings acceptable identification to the county clerk's office by the end of the next business day. A free Wyoming identification card is available from local Driver Services offices. Read from: sos.wyo.gov/Elections/VoterID
- Registering to vote, including on Election DayThe Secretary of State lists three ways to register, all through the county clerk: in person, by mail, or at the polls on Election Day; no online registration option appears on its pages. A mailed application must be notarized (military and overseas citizens are exempt). Every applicant must provide acceptable identification, proof of U.S. citizenship and proof of Wyoming residence, and must have been a bona fide Wyoming resident for not less than 30 days before the election. A valid Wyoming driver's license or ID card satisfies the citizenship requirement if it carries no indication that the holder is not a U.S. citizen. The FAQ gives the registration deadline as “14 days before an election”, and the office's 2026 key dates print October 19, 2026 as the day registration closes for the general election; a voter may still register and vote at the same time during the absentee voting period or on Election Day. The 2026 Voter's Guide says a voter who did not vote in the 2024 General Election should verify the registration with the county clerk, and a voter who moved within the county or changed names since the 2024 election must notify the county clerk. Read from: sos.wyo.gov/faqs.aspx?root=ELEC
- Voting absentee by mailAny registered Wyoming voter may request an absentee ballot, and the Secretary of State's FAQ says no reason is needed. Requests go to the county clerk — by phone, by mail, by email with the subject line “Absentee Ballot Request”, or in person — only within the calendar year of the election and not on Election Day. The request gives the voter's full name, date of birth, Wyoming residence address, mailing address, the election(s) requested and a statement of eligibility. Ballots are mailed beginning 28 days before the election (45 days for military and overseas voters); later requests are sent as soon as possible. Return the completed ballot in the provided, signed envelope by mail or in person to the county clerk's office, where it must be received no later than 7:00 p.m. on Election Day. Once the clerk's office has received a ballot, it is considered voted and cannot be changed. Read from: sos.wyo.gov/Elections/State/AbsenteeVoting.aspx
- Voting in person before Election DayWyoming's official pages describe voting before Election Day as absentee voting. The Secretary of State's voter site refers to a “Mail-in and in-person absentee voting period” of 28 days before the general election, which the office's key dates list as October 6 through November 2, 2026. A voter may request an absentee ballot in person at the county clerk's office and may obtain it on any day of that period, but not on Election Day; identification is required when voting in person. From October 20 to November 2, 2026, a person who is not yet registered may register in person and cast an absentee ballot. The Secretary of State's pages do not list locations, days or hours for in-person absentee voting; they direct voters to their county clerk and publish a contact list for all 23 county clerks. Read from: letsvotewyo.org
- Track your absentee ballotThe Secretary of State's Wyoming Voter Information Tool — where a voter enters a residential address to find out where to vote, view statewide ballot information and contact the county clerk — links to “Track my Absentee or Affidavit ballot”. That page, titled “Voter Registration Check” and headed “ARE YOU REGISTERED TO VOTE?”, asks for the voter's county, last name, first name, date of birth and either the last four digits of the Social Security number or the driver's license number, which must match the voter's registration, and shows the status of the absentee or affidavit ballot. The absentee voting page also says voters may contact their county clerk about the status of a ballot. Read from: myelectionday.sos.wyo.gov/WYVOTES/Pages/VoterRegistrationCheck.aspx
Read from: 2026 Key Election Dates · 2025-2026 Election Calendar · Welcome to the Election Center · 2026 Election · Voting · Registering to Vote in Wyoming — Rules and dates as of Sep 17, 2026
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