Today, Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Paul A. Gosar D.D.S. (AZ-04), House GOP Conference Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05), House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chair Greg Walden (OR-02), House Committee on Natural Resources Chair Rob Bishop (UT-01), Chief Rules Officer Dan Newhouse (WA-04), and Western Caucus Members Kurt Schrader (OR-05), Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA-03), Doug LaMalfa (CA-01) and Greg Gianforte (MT-At Large) issued statements after H.R. 3144 - legislation sponsored by Rep. McMorris Rodgers that protects the operations of the four Lower Snake River Dams in accordance with the best available science - passed the House floor by a vote of 225-189. 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 »
Today, Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Paul A. Gosar D.D.S. (AZ-04), Chief Regulatory Reform Officer Andy Biggs (AZ-05), Western Caucus Members Doug LaMalfa (CA-01) and Roger Marshall (KS-01), and Representative David B. McKinley (WV-01) released statements after 44 Members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to the Chairmen and Ranking Members of the Senate and House Appropriations Committee urging appropriators to reject a land grab provision proposed by Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) that would skirt normal permitting processes to prevent a 56-million-ton California sand and gravel mine from opening.
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Today, Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Paul A. Gosar D.D.S. (AZ-04), House Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (UT-01), Chairman Emeritus Steve Pearce (NM-02), and Western Caucus Members Doug Lamborn (CO-05), Brian Babin (TX-36), Doug LaMalfa (CA-01) and Kevin Cramer (ND-AL) released statements after the Bureau of Land Management announced it was issuing a proposed rule to effectively rescind the Obama BLM's 2016 Waste Prevention, Production Subject to Royalties, and Resource Conservation Rule, also known as the Venting and Flaring Rule. Read more »
Today, Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Paul A. Gosar D.D.S. (AZ-04), Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (WI-01), House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (CA-23), Chief Forestry Officer Bruce Westerman (AR-04), Executive Vice Chairman Scott Tipton (CO-03), Chief Rules Officer Dan Newhouse (WA-04), Chief Defense and Interior Officer Chris Stewart (UT-02), Chairman Emeritus Steve Pearce (NM-02), House Conference Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05), and Members Reps. Doug Collins (GA-09), Kristi Noem (SD-AL), Kurt Schrader (OR-05), Mimi Walters (CA-45), Paul Cook (CA-08), Jeff Denham (CA-10), Doug LaMalfa (01), Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson (PA-05), Doug Lamborn (CO-05), Tom Emmer (MN-06), Liz Cheney (WY-AL), and Greg Gianforte (MT-AL) issued statements following passage on the House Floor of Rep. Westerman’s H.R. 2936, the Resilient Federal Forests Act. Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Paul A. Gosar D.D.S. (AZ-04), Executive Vice-Chairman Scott Tipton (CO-03), Chairman Emeritus Rob Bishop (UT-01), Chief Infrastructure and Forestry Officer Bruce Westerman (AR-04), Western Caucus members Greg Gianforte (MT-AT Large), Doug Lamborn (CO-05), Doug LaMalfa (CA-01), Andy Biggs (AZ-05) and Tom Emmer (MN-06) and Vice-Chairman for Policy and Appropriations Mark Amodei (NV-02) released the following statements after the Bureau of Land Management and the Department of the Interior announced they are cancelling the proposed 10-million-acre mineral withdrawal in six Western states, and that the agencies are initiating action to overturn restrictive Sage Grouse regulations implemented by the Obama Administration: Read more »
Today, Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Paul A. Gosar D.D.S. (AZ-04), Chairman Emeritus Rep. Rob Bishop (UT-01), Chief Defense and Officer Chris Stewart (UT-02) and Western Caucus members Rep. Jason Smith (MO-08), Rep. Doug Lamborn (CO-05), Rep. Doug LaMalfa (CA-01), Rep. Doug Collins (GA-09), and Rep. Pete Sessions (TX-32) issued the following statements after U.S.… Read more »
