Items Tagged with 'Dan Newhouse'

Washington Rep. Dan Newhouse, a member of the Appropriations Committee, and five newly elected Republicans will join the House Agriculture Committee in January to fill seats vacated by committee departures on the GOP side.

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.

The House advanced legislation Wednesday that would increase oversight of farmland purchases by investors from China, Russia, Iran and North Korea. 

The Bureau of Land Management has finalized a rule that will allow conservation leases on its land by giving land protection and restoration equal footing with grazing, energy development and other long-standing uses of the 245 million acres the agency controls.

In this opinion piece, Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wa. and Rep. Austin Scott, R-Ga, celebrate the farmers and ranchers who are the backbone of our country as part of National Agriculture Day.

A steady stream of lawmakers filed into the House Ag Committee's hearing room Tuesday where they advocated for changes to crop insurance, trade program expansion and a slate of other policies on their farm bill wishlists.