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August 30, 2022
(Washington, D.C.) - Today, Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale) announced a $4,694,486.25 FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant Program award to the Paradise Irrigation District. This grant will fund a water supply hazard mitigation project which will improve the irrigation district's wastewater treatment plant and water distribution system. This will reduce the risk of damage to water distribution infrastructure and damage from loss of service due to natural disasters, such as flooding, storms, or wildfires.

August 22, 2022
(PARADISE, CA) – Today, Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R – Richvale) announced three Disaster Recovery Infrastructure Program grants from funds he successfully included in Federal disaster legislation in 2018 and 2019, which were signed into law by President Trump. The funds appropriated were delivered to the State of California to be used under the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program from the California Department of Housing and Community Development. The Town of Paradise received $199,592,735.75, Butte County received $72,722,697.61, and the City of Chico received $12,388,409.65.

August 22, 2022
(Redding,  CA) – Friday, Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R – Richvale) announced two Disaster Recovery Infrastructure Program grants from funds he successfully included in Federal disaster legislation in 2018 and 2019, which were signed into law by President Trump.  The funds appropriated were delivered to the State of California to be used under the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program from the California Department of Housing and Community Development.  The City of Redding was awarded $22,563,043.51 and the City of Shasta Lake was awarded $6,326,184.69 to assist in recovery from the Carr Fire.  These funds are not tied to any specific project and can be used to fund recovery and infrastructure projects chosen in accordance with eligible uses, including but not limited to roads and bridges, water control facilities, public utilities, and fire mitigation.  Additional awards will be named soon and Congressman LaMalfa’s district received 98% of all Congressionally-authorized disaster recovery awards of this type.

August 15, 2022
(Washington, D.C.) – Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R – Richvale) voted against H.R. 5376, the mislabeled “Inflation Reduction Act of 2022”. This Democrat tax and spend bill will significantly increase taxes on capital investment by U.S. companies, expand Obamacare, add $146 billion in new debt, and increase taxes on middle- and lower- income Americans – something President Biden promised he wouldn’t ever do. According to Congressional Budget Office estimates, this bill would have a negligible effect on inflation this year and would only reduce inflation by .01% at best in 2023. The first time Democrats used the “reconciliation process,” they kickstarted inflation and set a 40-year record. Using reconciliation again is certain to increase prices even more.

July 29, 2022
(Washington, D.C.) – Today, Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R – Richvale) voted against the Democrats’ “Wildfire Response and Drought Resiliency Act”. Instead of green-lighting proven wildfire prevention activities such as landscape scale thinning and responsible harvesting, this bill creates more red tape and duplicative processes that will bog down existing Forest Service work. This bill claims to increase wildland firefighter pay, when in fact all crewmembers already earn above the proposed minimum pay, and it excludes nearly 40% of the federal wildland firefighting workforce from the “new benefits” promised in the legislation. This bill fails to address the root causes of catastrophic wildfires or implement aggressive landscape management practices, instead forces the Forest Service spend years creating a new 10-year strategy to confront wildfires - only six months after the agency completed its planning to implement a new 10-year strategy.

July 26, 2022
(Washington, D.C.) – Today, Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R – Richvale) announced ten Federal Aviation Administration grant awards totaling $3,569,974 for airport municipalities throughout Shasta, Siskiyou, Modoc, Nevada, and Placer counties.

July 25, 2022
(Washington, D.C.) – Today, Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R – Richvale) announced a $164,450.00 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services (SAMHSA) Rural Emergency Medical Services Training Grant to Plumas District Hospital.
Issues:Health Care

July 20, 2022
(Washington, D.C.) – Today, Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R – Richvale) spoke on the U.S. House of Representative’s floor to discuss how environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards hinder domestic energy and food production. This comes as the Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) proposed a new rule requiring publicly traded companies to disclose extensive climate-related data and “climate risks”. Congress did not authorize the SEC to establish ESG standards nor create overreaching rules that will inherently alter businesses’ strategies. Congressman LaMalfa sent a letter to SEC Chair Gary Gensler urging the commission to rescind the prosed rule.
Issues:Agriculture

July 19, 2022
(Washington, D.C.) – Today, Congressman LaMalfa (R – Richvale) announced a $1,568,272.50 FEMA Hazard Mitigation Assistance Grant to the City of Redding. This grant will fund the installation of a new standby generator at Redding's Foothill Water Treatment Plant, and will include replacement of two existing transformers and switchboards with a single new transformer and switchboard.

July 15, 2022
(Washington, D.C.) – Today, Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R – Richvale) spoke on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives to discuss the recent uptick in environmental crimes associated with illegal marijuana cultivation in Northern California. This comes as reports of California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) officers, Trinity County Sheriff’s Office, Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office, Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office, California National Guard, State Water Resources Control Board and CDFW environmental scientists collaborated in an investigation and discovered more than 150 environmental violations related to illegal grows. Many of these violations were directly impacting U.S. National Forests and included illegal water diversions, large scale illegal grading, sediment discharge to streams, water pollution of petroleum products and trash, and the use of outlawed rodenticides and pesticides.