Items Tagged with 'Congressional Western Caucus'

Rep. Doug LaMalfa, a northern California Republican and fourth-generation rice farmer on the House Agriculture Committee, has died, the House GOP announced Tuesday.

FGS Global hired Mary Nowak Armstrong as managing director. Illinois Farm Bureau delegates have voted in Philip Nelson as their new president. The American Soybean Association made promotions and new hires on the industry relations team: Kate Maher hired as director of state and industry relations, Tracy Snider  promoted to executive director of state and industry relations, and Michelle Hummel  promoted to senior director of industry and stakeholder relations. 

House GOP leaders were facing heavy pressure from farm groups and their allies in Congress on Sunday to add economic assistance for row crop producers to a year-end stopgap spending bill. House Democrats will pick a ranking member for the House Agriculture Committee on Monday.

In this joint opinion piece, Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., and House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Bruce Westerman, R-Ark., highlight legislation they recently introduced to reform the Endangered Species Act.

In this opinion piece, Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., and Corey Rosenbusch of the Fertilizer Institute discuss the need to designate phosphate and potash as critical minerals.

In this opinion piece, Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., and Rep. Mary Peltola, D-Alaska, discuss the increasingly catastrophic nature of wildfires rural communities are facing, and the need for proactive guidance from the U.S. Forest Service for the 2023 fire season.

In this opinion piece, Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., and Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., discuss their shared priorities and work they hope to achieve in the 118th Congress and how important it is to represent the rural way of life in our nation’s capital.