Items Tagged with 'Doug LaMalfa'

Washington veteran Eric Steiner will join Olsson Frank Weeda Terman Matz’s (OFW) Government Relations’ team as a senior policy advisor. The Agriculture Department announced senior appointments and promotions across the agency, including: Cindy Long, Sean Babington, and Eric Deeble. CoBank named; Sean Burke; as chief financial officer. He will lead the cooperative bank’s finance group. Animal Health Institute president and CEO Mathews will retire at the end of 2024.

A short-term tax package that would restore full bonus depreciation and raise limits on the Section 179 expensing provision is now set to move next week in the House. Meanwhile in the Senate, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee is making clear that the bill shouldn’t set a precedent for offsetting the cost of future tax bills.

Thirty-one lawmakers spend their time outside of the nation’s capitol farming, ranching or running cattle operations, according to a new Congressional Research Service report.

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