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WASHINGTON D.C. – Montana’s Congressman, Denny Rehberg, is urging U.S. agriculture and trade officials to ensure that Montana grain producers are not unfairly penalized by Canadian trade restrictions when new rules by the Canadian Wheat Board allow Canadian growers to sell their grain on the open market for the first time in nearly 70 years. Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Montana’s Congressman, Denny Rehberg, used his position as Chairman of the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education Appropriations Subcommittee to successfully include provisions related to youth labor and regulatory relief that will help preserve the rural way of life and provide economic stability for the agriculture industry. Read more »

WASHINGTON, DC—Today, Governor Mitt Romney announced his opposition to the Wind Production Tax Credit (PTC), which is scheduled to expire at the end of 2012 without a Congressional vote to extend it. The Wind PTC is just one of many energy subsidies that Congressman Mike Pompeo (KS-04) has been working to eliminate from the tax code. Read more »

WASHINGTON – The U.S. House of Representatives has passed by voice vote Congressman Cynthia Lummis’ (R-Wyo) amendment to the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA), legislation passed in 1980 to reimburse individuals who otherwise could not afford to legally pursue claims against the government. Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Small Business Subcommittee on Agriculture, Energy and Trade, under the chairmanship of Rep. Scott Tipton (R-CO), today held a hearing on the impact of foreign sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures on small family farms and agriculture exports. SPS measures are non-tariff food requirements from foreign nations intended to protect the health and safety of their populations and environments. Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. –Today, the House of Representatives passed critical bipartisan legislation to replace President Obama’s restrictive offshore drilling plan with a more extensive plan to utilize further domestic energy resources. This legislation was introduced after President Obama released his No-New-Drilling, No-New-Jobs plan, which would close off 85 percent of America’s offshore energy resources and deeply diminish energy production and job growth. Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. —A staunch advocate of a balanced all-of-the-above American energy plan, Rep. Scott Tipton (R-CO) has cosponsored a measure (H.R. 6154) introduced by Reps. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and Mike Thompson (D-CA), that would encourage the development of renewable energy resources on public lands by streamlining the permitting process. Read more »

WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative Cynthia Lummis joined 252 members of the U.S. House in passing a replacement for President Obama’s weak offshore drilling plan proposed this past June. Read more »

(Click Here to Watch the Floor Speech) (Remarks Delivered on the House Floor, July 24, 2012) “Thank you Mr. Chairman, and thanks Natural Resources Committee for their hard work on this issue.” “As my good friend, Jeff Landry, the Congressman from Louisiana reminds us, ‘DRILLING=JOBS.’” “And Republicans have a job plan for creation in… Read more »

Congressman Doug Lamborn (CO-05) today voted to replace President Obama’s restrictive energy plan on America’s outer continental shelf with a more robust plan to access American energy supplies. Read more »