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Washington, DC – A bill to cut red tape and reduce the costs of disaster recovery under Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) programs, which will be critical to recovery from Hurricane Sandy, is stalled in the United States Senate. Read more »

BOZEMAN, MT -- Montana’s Congressman, Denny Rehberg, was awarded the American Farm Bureau Federation’s (AFBF) “Friend of Farm Bureau” award at a presentation in Bozeman this week. Rehberg earned the award with his steadfast support of Montana’s farm and ranch community during the 112th Congress. Read more »

Las Cruces, NM – Rep. Steve Pearce has been recognized for the fifth time by the New Mexico Farm & Livestock Bureau as a “Friend of Farm Bureau.” Based on their evaluation of his voting record in Congress, the Bureau gave Pearce a perfect 100% score for his work for New Mexico agriculture. Read more »

Spokane, WA- Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05) delivered the keynote speech at the Society of American Foresters National Convention in Spokane today. The Congresswoman spoke about her work to improve federal land management policies and issues specific to the Colville National Forest. Read more »

FARGO, N.D. – Congressman Rick Berg today was presented with the American Farm Bureau Federation’s ‘Friend of Farm Bureau’ Award by North Dakota Farm Bureau (NDFB) Executive Vice President Jeffrey Missling. The ‘Friend of Farm Bureau’ award is given at the end of each Congress to those members of Congress Description: vailable (video enabled)who are nominated by their respective state Farm Bureaus and approved by the American Farm Bureau Federation Board of Directors. Read more »

Congressman Doug Lamborn (CO-05) released the following statement in anticipation of tonight’s presidential debate on foreign policy: Read more »

Washington D.C. - Thank you all for having me here today. I’d especially like to thank Dr. Ronald Kendall, Professor of Environmental Toxicology and Special Assistant to the President at Texas Tech. He helped create the Institute of Environmental and Human Health, which combines a variety of academic resources and research specialties to examine the environmental and health impacts of chemicals. Read more »

Bellefonte, Pa. – U.S. Representative Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson (R-PA) has joined U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) in calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a separate subcategory for waste coal plants in new regulations that could otherwise cause them to close. The letter, which was sent this week to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, was signed by seven other Pennsylvania Congressmen. Read more »

Mandan, N.D. – Congressman Rick Berg today toured the Tesoro Mandan oil refinery. During the tour, Berg discussed the importance of the domestic refining industry, oil production and American energy independence. Read more »

“Correlation does not imply causation”is certainly a rule President Obama learned while earning his law degree but something he has all but forgotten when it comes to his Administration’s dismal, job destroying energy policies. President Obama’s failed energy policies might correlate with America’s increase of oil and natural gas production but they aren’t the cause, as almost 100% of that increase has come on private and state lands, according to the non-partisan Congressional Research Service. Read more »