Press Releases

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressmen Doug LaMalfa (R- Calif.) and Guy Reschenthaler (R – Pa.) led a group of 92 Republican Members of Congress in a letter to the Transportation Security Administration requesting that it allow the mask mandate for air travel, which is currently extended through March 18, 2022, to expire. Due to strong declines in COVID-19 cases and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) latest guidance eliminating indoor mask requirements for much of the population. Advanced filtration on airplanes makes the risk of COVID-19 exposure on planes extremely low.

Washington, D.C. – Today, President Biden announced a ban on the importation of Russian oil to the United States. Thirteen days since the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine, bipartisan pressure has mounted on the administration to take further action and encourage more American energy production. Despite previously implementing sanctions on Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline, Russia’s Central Banks, President Putin himself and his fellow oligarchs, Biden has held off sanctioning Russian produced oil until now. Yesterday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy formally called on Biden to ban imports of Russian oil.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, Congressman Tom McClintock (CA-04) and Congressman Doug LaMalfa (CA-01) introduced legislation directing the U.S. Forest Service to immediately suppress wildfires on National Forest System lands and put an end to the policy of letting fires burn.

Washington, D.C. – Today, the Economic Development Administration (EDA) announced a $296,000 Economic Adjustment Assistance grant award to Valley Contractors Exchange (VCE) in Chico. This EDA investment funds the Hands on Tools Mobile Construction Training to create a mobile construction training educational program. The program is anticipated to create over 100 new construction jobs in the area, which can help the region rebuild following a destructive wildfire or flooding.

Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R – Richvale) released the following statement in response to President Biden’s State of the Union Address

Washington, D.C. – Yesterday, Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R – Calif) led a group of California Congressional Members in a letter to the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) and the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) requesting them to jointly resubmit a Temporary Urgency Change Petition (TUCP) for Water Year 2022 to the California State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) to lower operational requirements over the next several months due to the worsening drought conditions. Members of the California delegation, including Congressman Kevin McCarthy (R – Calif), Congressman Ken Calvert (R – Calif), Congressman Tom McClintock (R – Calif), and Congressman David Valadao (R – Calif) joined.

Washington, D.C. – Today, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a “special military operation” in Ukraine, including launching missiles from Belarus into Ukraine, killing at least 40 Ukrainian soldiers and wounding dozens more. Putin has warned other countries that any attempt to interfere with the Russian action would lead to “consequences they have never seen”, and justified his actions after the U.S. and its allies crossed Russia’s “red line” by expanding the NATO alliance along Russia’s borders. Following this attack, President Biden announced further economic sanctions against Russia that would target Russian banks holding a combined $1 trillion in assets, including VTB Bank. He also stated that the U.S. would impose sanctions on additional Russian oligarchs with links to the Kremlin.

Washington, D.C. – Today, Russia officially invaded Ukraine after months of amassing an estimated 150,000 – 190,000 troops and artillery at Ukraine’s northern, southern and eastern borders. Russia has previously demanded the U.S. and NATO bar Ukraine from joining the military alliance and pull back troops from Eastern European member states. The United States first began supplying weapons to Ukraine after the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014.