WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman David Valadao (CA-22) and Congressman Eugene Vindman (VA-07) reintroduced the REAP Modernization Act. This bipartisan bill makes improvements to the Rural Energy in America Program (REAP), which provides grants and guaranteed loans to agricultural producers and rural small businesses purchasing and installing renewable energy systems and making… Read more »

Congressman David Valadao (CA-22) sent a letter alongside Reps. Vince Fong (CA-20), Doug LaMalfa (CA-01), and Tom McClintock (CA-05) to applaud the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) decision to rescind the 2012 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the California Geologic Energy Management Division (CalGEM) and BLM. Read more »

This week, the House Committee on Natural Resources advanced H.R. 3168, the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act, out of full committee markup. Read more »

Congressman David Valadao (CA-22) joined Congresswoman Kim Schrier (WA-08) to re-introduce the National Prescribed Fire Act. Read more »

Today, Congressman David Valadao (CA-22) released the following statement upon passage of the bipartisan Fire Safe Electrical Corridors Act in the U.S. House of Representatives. Read more »

Today, Congressman David Valadao (CA-22) joined Reps. Doug LaMalfa (CA-01), Jimmy Panetta (CA-19), Jeff Hurd (CO-03), Young Kim (CA-40), Ken Calvert (CA-41), Darrell Issa (CA-48), Tom McClintock (CA-05), Vince Fong (CA-20), Adam Gray (CA-13), and Jim Costa (CA-21) in reintroducing the Forest Protection and Wildland Firefighter Safety Act. Read more »

Congressman David Valadao (CA-22) and Congressman Jim Costa (CA-21) introduced the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Reauthorization Act. Read more »

Today, the House of Representatives passed a Congressional Review Act resolution to repeal the Biden Administration’s listing of the longfin smelt as endangered under the Federal Endangered Species Act. Read more »

Today, Congressman David Valadao (CA-22) joined Rep. Salud Carbajal (CA-24) to re-introduce the Fire Safe Electrical Corridors Act. Read more »

Today, the House of Representatives passed the Fix Our Forests Act. The bill, which Congressman David Valadao was an original co-sponsor of, is comprehensive, bipartisan legislation which restores forest health, increases resiliency to catastrophic wildfires, and protects communities by expanding environmental analyses, reducing frivolous lawsuits, and increasing the pace and scale of forest restoration projects. Read more »