Items Tagged with 'Doug LaMalfa'

The House is scheduled to vote again this morning on Jim Jordan as House speaker after he was unable to turn enough votes to force a second vote Tuesday evening.

The lead Republican on the House Agriculture Committee's Conservation and Forestry Subcommittee, fourth-generation rice farmer Doug LeMalfa, wants to ensure in the next Congress that farm conservation practices stay voluntary, and he also intends to focus on what he considers proactive fire and timber management.

Eight GOP members of the House Agriculture Committee are calling for a hearing with the head of the Environmental Protection Agency to discuss the nation’s pesticide law.

CA Dems ask Pence for N95s * Chlorpyrifos bill clears Assembly * Farmer: Economy ‘roaring back’ thanks to Trump * Dems pledge climate bill—but how?

Nearly half of California’s congressional representatives signed a letter yesterday to Vice President Mike Pence, who heads the White House Coronavirus Task Force.

Nine California representatives are urging USDA to “utilize all purchasing authorities” to help the walnut industry.

Republican congressmen urge Newsom to reconsider water plan * Reclamation streamlines water transfers in time for dry year * Lack of water allocations will ‘exacerbate’ subsidence

Rail money could go to water projects * December vote eyed for ag labor

Dairies second highest emitter * Justices struggle with Clean Water Act

Faced with criticism about delays in research reports and distribution of grant funding, a top USDA official defended the department’s decision to relocate the Economic Research Service and National Institute of Food and Agriculture to the Kansas City region at a congressional hearing Thursday.