One Wyoming Woman VS The World (ft. Rep. Harriet Hageman)

Harriet Hageman (0:00)

A couple of years ago, we had a horrific accident on I-80 in Wyoming. It was caused by an illegal alien. And there were the first responders who came out on the highway middle of the night, came out there to address that particular accident. And there was a driver from Haiti who was driving a semi, who did not understand what was going on with that accident site and the flashing lights, and all of those things going on. And he drove through that accident site at over 60 miles an hour. And when he got to the other end of the accident site, because it was mayhem out on the highway, he hit two EMTs and he killed one instantly, and the other one, he hit her so hard, he embedded her in the front of his truck. And she survived, but broke almost every bone in her body. And so that Haitian truck driver was not from Wyoming, but he caused a lot of damage in Wyoming.

That will, for those families affected, they will suffer the rest of their lives for this. So this is something where I've got a bill that the DOT will be doing audits of these states to ensure that in terms of issuing their CDLs, that they are actually only going to the people who are entitled to have them.

Nick Solheim (1:36)

Howdy, everyone, and welcome back to Moment of Truth, the podcast of American Moment. My name is Nick Solheim, and I'm the CEO of American Moment, and I'm very glad to have you back with us for another episode this week. We were excited this week We're going. to have Congresswoman Harriet Hageman from the great state of Wyoming come in and talk about a whole host of topics. We talked about the trucking industry. We talked about the cattle industry. We talked about the climate change scam. And we wrapped it up with a little bit on the birth tourism brouhaha.

It was a fantastic episode. It was a huge honor to meet her. I'm a very big fan. So we will go now to Congresswoman Harriet Hageman.

Congresswoman, thanks so much for coming on the podcast.

Harriet Hageman (2:28)

It's wonderful to be with you today.

Nick Solheim (2:29)

So we were talking about this a little bit before we started the episode. But one thing that we love to do here on the show is sort of get a life history of our guest, how you ended up where you are today. So I'm wondering if we could start there. How did you get here to Washington, DC.?

Harriet Hageman (2:47)

So I'm a fourth generation Wyomingite. My great grandfather came to Wyoming in 1878 He came north on the cattle trail from Texas to Wyoming. I have a very large family in Wyoming. I went to Casper College on a livestock judging scholarship. And then I went to the University of Wyoming where I received both my bachelor's and my law degree. Prior to coming to Congress, I was a trial attorney for 34 years, primarily water and natural resources and constitutional law.

And really how this happened was that when Liz Cheney made the decision to not represent the state of Wyoming but focus instead on some of the issues happening here in Washington, DC, I made the decision that Wyoming needed to be represented by someone who cared a lot more about Wyoming. And so I ran against her and I am now in my second term.

Nick Solheim (3:42)

That is awesome. I, you know, this is something that I was kind of curious about at the time.

How does somebody like Liz Cheney get elected? I mean, I've been to Wyoming. That does not seem like the kind of person that most Wyomingites would want to vote for. How did something like that happen?

Harriet Hageman (4:01)

Dick Cheney represented us from 78 to 88 So he was our congressman for that period of time. He's from Wyoming. And so he was kind of a favored son. And so what happened, and I was friends with Liz Cheney, but what happened was that I think that just with her name recognition and name ID, that's what she was elected in 2016 Also, it was a very crowded field. I believe that there were 11 people running for this seat at that time in 2016

And she dominated the field. There's no question about that. But I think that those things came together and we respected her. We respected her family and the family service. And so obviously with a name like Chaney, you're going to have some gravitas in the state of Wyoming.

Nick Solheim (4:52)

Yeah. Well, what are the issues that primarily motivate people who live in the state of Wyoming that maybe she was not representing as well here in Washington that you're trying to prioritize?