Healthy Forests

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, members of the Western Caucus released statements applauding President Trump’s signing of a historic federal lands package into law in the form of S.47 Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, members of the Congressional Western Caucus and the Senate Western Caucus released statements of support for David Bernhardt's nomination for Secretary of the Department of the Interior after his nomination was officially transmitted from the White House to the United States Congress. Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, members of the Western Caucus released statements of support for David Bernhardt's nomination for Secretary of the Department of the Interior. Read more »

Today, members of the Congressional Western Caucus issued a bipartisan press release urging inclusion of key forestry provisions in the final version of the Farm Bill and condemning obstruction of active management policies by Senate Democrats. Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, members of the Congressional Western Caucus released the following statements after 40 Members of the House sent a bipartisan letter to the Farm Bill Conference Committee urging them to include important forestry provisions in the final conference report Read more »

Today, Members of the Congressional Western Caucus including Chairman Paul Gosar (AZ-04), Chief Infrastructure and Forestry Officer Bruce Westerman (AR-04) and Members Tom Emmer (MN-06) and Kevin Cramer (ND-At Large) released statements after President Trump announced at a rally last night in Duluth, Minnesota that he would be cancelling the Obama Administration's political mineral withdrawal in the Superior National Forest. Read more »

Today, Western Caucus Member Don Young (AK-At Large) released the following statement after his Amendment #69 to H.R. 2 - which would exempt Alaska from the 2001 'Roadless Rule' and thereby boost forestry in several National Forest System units in which it has been artificially suppressed - passed the Floor of the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 208-207. Read more »

Today, Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Paul A. Gosar D.D.S. (AZ-04), Western Caucus Member Doug LaMalfa (CA-01), Senior Vice President for Government Affairs at CTIA Kelly Cole, and President and CEO of the Wireless Infrastructure Association Jonathan Adelstein released the following statements after Congressman LaMalfa's amendment to H.R. 2 - which would streamline the permitting process for rural broadband infrastructure - passed the Floor of the U.S. House of Representatives by unanimous voice vote. Read more »

Today, Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Paul A. Gosar D.D.S. (AZ-04), House Committee on Agriculture Chairman Mike Conaway (TX-11), House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01), Executive Vice-Chairman Scott Tipton (CO-03), Chief Rules Officer Dan Newhouse (WA-04), House GOP Conference Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05), members of the Agriculture Committee Roger Marshall (KS-01), Doug LaMalfa (CA-01) and Rick Crawford (AR-01) and Caucus members Ron Estes (KS-04), Mike Johnson (LA-04), Kevin Cramer (ND-At Large) and Markwayne Mullin (OK-02) issued statements after Chairman Conaway and the House Committee on Agriculture revealed the text of the Farm Bill this afternoon. Read more »

Today, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the American Petroleum Institute, the National Association of Manufacturers, Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Paul A. Gosar D.D.S. (AZ-04), Chief Rules Officer Dan Newhouse (WA-04), Chief Infrastructure and Forestry Officer Bruce Westerman (AR-04), Chairman Emeritus Steve Pearce (NM-02), and Western Caucus Members Doug LaMalfa (CA-01), Louie Gohmert (TX-01), Greg Gianforte (MT-At Large), Brian Babin (TX-36), Tom Emmer (MN-06), and Bob Gibbs (OH-07) released statements calling on appropriations negotiators and Congressional leadership to include language to address the job-killing 2015 Obama-era Ozone rule and other Western Caucus priorities in the fiscal year 2018 omnibus funding bill. Read more »