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Today, Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Doug LaMalfa (CA-01) issued the following statement reacting to President Donald Trump’s energy-related executive orders. “President Trump’s executive actions to promote domestic energy production will have vast benefits for rural America and the West,” said Chairman LaMalfa. “By unlocking our resource rich lands for extraction and reversing onerous rul... Read More »

Today, Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Doug LaMalfa (CA-01) released the following statement on the swearing in of President Donald J. Trump. “I would like to congratulate President Trump on his swearing in,” said Chairman LaMalfa. “Today, the assault on our Western Way of Life ends. I look forward to working with President Trump, administration officials and my colleagues on reversing the b... Read More »

Today, Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Doug LaMalfa (CA-01) and House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Bruce Westerman (AR-04) released the following statements on the re-introduction of Chairman Westerman’s Fix Our Forests Act. “As wildfires rage across my home state of California, the need for proactive forest management to reduce wildfire risk has never been more urgent,” said Chairma... Read More »

Today, Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Doug LaMalfa (CA-01) and Senate Western Caucus Chair Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) released statements following the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) announcement that records of decision to prioritize greater sage-grouse habitat over other land uses have been signed in Colorado and Oregon, with additional plans nearly completed in California, Wyoming, Montana... Read More »

Today, Chairman Doug LaMalfa (CA-01) announced the following Congressional Western Caucus Executive Committee Members for the 119th Congress: Rep. Celeste Maloy (UT-02) Rep. Mark Amodei (NV-02) Rep. Cliff Bentz (OR-02) Rep. Michelle Fischbach (MN-07) Rep. Harriet Hageman (WY-AL) Rep. Jeff Hurd (CO-03) Rep. Dan Newhouse (WA-04) Rep. Jay Obernolte (CA-23) Rep. Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen (AS-AL) R... Read More »

Today, Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Doug LaMalfa (CA-01), House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Bruce Westerman (AR-04), and House Republican Conference Chair Lisa McClain (MI-09) issued the following statement: “Our prayers are with the victims of the dangerous fires today in California. We must aggressively increase the pace and scale of our forest management to prevent these ty... Read More »

Today, Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Doug LaMalfa (CA-01), and Vice Chairs Dan Newhouse (WA-04) and Tom Tiffany (WI-07), released the following statements about the U.S. Forest Service’s withdrawal of their proposed updates to the National Old Growth Amendment. “The Forest Service’s decision to withdraw the National Old Growth Amendment proposal is great news for proper forest management,”... Read More »

Chairman Doug LaMalfa (CA-01) released the following statement following the Biden Administration’s action removing over 625 million acres from future leasing opportunities. The action impacts federal waters in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and parts of the Northern Bering Sea in Alaska. “President Biden’s eleventh-hour ban on offshore energy development is a reckles... Read More »

Today, Chairman Doug LaMalfa (CA-01) released the following statement congratulating Congressional Western Caucus member Speaker Mike Johnson (LA-04) on his reelection as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. "Congratulations to Speaker Johnson on his reelection as Speaker of the House," said Chairman LaMalfa. "This Congress is a fresh start for America, and with Republicans leading both c... Read More »

This week, Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Dan Newhouse (WA-04) and Senate Western Caucus Chair Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) led 23 bicameral members of the Caucus in demanding that political appointees at the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) who have announced their future employment with environmental non-government organizations (ENGOs) recuse themselves from pending official business. This is in... Read More »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Chairman-elect Doug LaMalfa (CA-01) released the following statement congratulating John Veale as the new Executive Director for the Congressional Western Caucus. “I’m proud to see my longtime Legislative Director, John Veale, take on the role of Executive Director of Western Caucus,” said Chairman-elect LaMalfa. “Despite being a diehard Dodger fan, John has been a key me... Read More »

Today, Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Dan Newhouse (WA-04) delivered remarks on the House floor reflecting on his two terms leading the group. Video of Chairman Newhouse’s remarks can be found here. Chairman Newhouse’s prepared remarks Mr. Speaker, I rise today to reflect on my four years serving as Chairman of the Congressional Western Caucus. It’s been a tremendous four years filled with ... Read More »

Today, Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Dan Newhouse (WA-04) released the following statement in response to reports that a supplemental spending deal would not include economic assistance for farmers or address California’s Proposition 12. “At a time when the American agriculture industry needs our support, Congress has let them down,” said Chairman Newhouse. “This failure to help our farmer... Read More »

Today, Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Dan Newhouse (WA-04), Senate Western Caucus Chair Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Bruce Westerman (AR-04) released the following statements on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s proposed listing of the monarch butterfly as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. “This announcement by the Fish and Wil... Read More »

Yesterday, Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Dan Newhouse (WA-04) and Senate Western Caucus Chair Cynthia Lummis (WY) sent a letter to Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Director Tracy Stone-Manning, calling on her to cease work on the agency’s Greater Sage-Grouse Proposed Resource Management Plan Amendment (RMPA) and Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). “BLM’s sage-grouse proposal impleme... Read More »