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February 6, 2020
(Washington, DC) – Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale) released the following statement after the House passed the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act.

February 5, 2020
(Washington, DC) – Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale) issued the following statement after President Donald Trump issued the State of the Union Address in the House Chamber at the Capitol.

February 5, 2020
(Washington, DC) – Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale) issued the following statement after the Senate voted to acquit President Trump.

February 4, 2020
(Washington, DC) – Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale) issued the following statement after introducing H.R. 5774, the Clearing Lines along Electrical At-Risk Zones (CLEAR Zones) Act. H.R. 5744 builds off current law resulting from the passage of Congressman LaMalfa’s Electricity Reliability and Forest Protection Act, which provided a process through the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture to remove trees that posed a hazard to nearby power lines. The CLEAR Zones Act extends the area around utility rights-of-way that must be kept safe from hazard trees, accelerates the review process by providing for a categorical exemption from environmental assessments, and ensures plans will be approved within 60 days.

January 30, 2020
(Washington, DC) – Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale) issued the following statement after the House passed H.R. 5543, the ‘No War Against Iran Act’, as an amendment to H.R. 550.

January 29, 2020
(Washington, DC) – Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale) issued the following statement after House Democrats outlined a $760 billion infrastructure plan.

January 28, 2020
Washington, D.C. – Today, the House Agriculture Committee’s Conservation and Forestry Subcommittee held a hearing to review implementation of conservation programs in the 2018 Farm Bill. After the hearing, Subcommittee Ranking Member Doug LaMalfa (CA-1) and Committee Ranking Member K. Michael Conaway (TX-11) released the following remarks:
Issues:Agriculture

January 28, 2020
Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale) issued the following statement after FEMA issued two federal grants totaling nearly $16.5 million to the State of California for Carr Fire recovery. The first grant issued almost $6.5 million in federal funding to the city of Redding for the restoration of their power grid. The second grant issued almost $10 million in funding due to a federal cost share increase from 75% to 90% to the California Department of Resources Recycle and Recovery (CalRecycle) for debris removal per a provision in H.J.Res. 31 secured by Congressman LaMalfa.

January 23, 2020

(Washington, DC) – Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale) issued the following statement after he, and a group of bipartisan colleagues, sent a letter asking California State Treasurer Fiona Ma to understand and abide by provisions in Public Law 116-94 that allocated tax credits to areas affected by wildfires in 2017 and 2018 – including Butte, Shasta, Lake, Mendocino, Napa, Nevada, Orange, Sol


January 17, 2020

(Washington, DC) – Congressman Doug LaMalfa (R-Richvale) released the following statement about a letter he and a group of bipartisan colleagues recently wrote to U.S. Attorney General William Barr and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra urging the Federal and State governments to halt their reimbursement claims from wildfire victims' settlement funds.