LaMalfa, D Rep
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The New York Times reports residents of rural north California have longed to pull out of liberal California and merge with conservative territory in Oregon to form a new Republican state. But what they’re about to get instead is another Democratic representative.
California responded to Texas’ mid-decade gerrymander for new Republican seats with its own upcoming gerrymander, which is likely to erase California’s Republican minority even further.
Soon after state voters passed the November redistricting measure, Democrat Mike McGuire said he would run in the north California redrawn district. The Times reports Sacramento Valley residents seem anguished but also resigned to their fate.
“There was definitely a feeling of throwing up your hands,” said Orland resident Gene Lifur, 52. “You’re going to lose a lot of the interest for voting in the North State.”
But few are angrier than Republican incumbent Rep. Doug LaMalfa who lives near Richvale but it likely to lose his seat now that California is retaliating against Texas’ gerrymander.
“I’m furious because I’ve had my people kidnapped from me,” LaMalfa told the Times.
“Their voice is being silenced on how they feel about the issues here, because Newsom and the three-to-one ratio of Democrats wanted to see if they could steal five seats,” he said.
Democrats say LaMalfa’s lockstep votes with President Donald Trump have hurt local farmers, however, arguing that LaMalfa’s vote to cut Medicaid will harm rural hospitals. And Trump’s tariffs have raised the costs of farming equipment while “retaliatory tariffs by countries like China have hurt farmers’ exports,” forcing Trump to push yet another financial bailout for U.S. farmers. They add that Trump is also compromising farming industries by targeting immigration raids to blue-state farms.
Instead, Democrats say Republicans have themselves to blame for the gerrymander fight, reports the Times, reminding that California Gov. Gavin Newsom only pushed the gerrymander to after Texas announced it was beginning the process to buttress Trump’s razor-thin margin in the House.
Read the New York Times report at this link.
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H.R.3371 - Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act118th Congress (2023-2024)
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Ranked most politically right compared to California Delegation
Our unique ideology analysis assigns a score to Members of Congress according to their legislative behavior by how similar the pattern of bills and resolutions they cosponsor are to other Members of Congress.
For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in the 118th Congress is considered, the ideology score here may differ from LaMalfa’s score elsewhere on GovTrack.
Compare to all California Delegation (98th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (96th percentile); House Republicans (90th percentile); All Representatives (95th percentile).
Introduced the 9th fewest bills compared to California Delegation
LaMalfa introduced 17 bills and resolutions in the 118th Congress. View Bills »
Compare to all California Delegation (16th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (29th percentile); House Republicans (25th percentile); All Representatives (27th percentile).
Cosponsored the 17th most bills compared to House Republicans
LaMalfa cosponsored 466 bills and resolutions introduced by other Members of Congress. Cosponsorship shows a willingness to work with others to advance policy goals. View Cosponsored Bills »
Compare to all California Delegation (53rd percentile); Serving 10+ Years (74th percentile); House Republicans (92nd percentile); All Representatives (73rd percentile).
Got bicameral support on the 14th fewest bills compared to California Delegation (tied with 6 others)
The House and Senate often work on the same issue simultaneously by introducing companion bills in each chamber. 3 of LaMalfa’s bills and resolutions had a companion bill in the Senate. Working with a sponsor in the other chamber makes a bill more likely to be passed by both the House and Senate.
Those bills were: H.R. 1440: Modern, Clean, and Safe Trucks …; H.R. 3328: Protecting Children From Experimentation Act …; H.R. 4070: Disaster Mitigation and Tax Parity …
Compare to all California Delegation (25th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (30th percentile); House Republicans (33rd percentile); All Representatives (30th percentile).
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Was 44th most absent in votes compared to All Representatives
LaMalfa missed 8.0% of votes (99 of 1,241 votes) in the 118th Congress. View LaMalfa’s Profile »
Compare to all California Delegation (90th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (88th percentile); All Representatives (90th percentile).
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Got their bills out of committee the 46th least often compared to House Republicans (tied with 30 others)
Most bills and resolutions languish in committee without any action. LaMalfa introduced 3 bills in the 118th Congress that got past committee and to the floor for consideration.
Those bills were: H.R. 1586: Forest Protection and Wildland Firefighter …; H.R. 4970: Protect Innocent Victims Of Taxation …; H.R. 6368: Indian Buffalo Management Act
Compare to all California Delegation (53rd percentile); Serving 10+ Years (55th percentile); House Republicans (20th percentile); All Representatives (48th percentile).
Laws Enacted
LaMalfa introduced 1 bill that became law, including via incorporation into other measures, in the 118th Congress. Keep in mind that it takes a law to repeal a law. Very few bills ever become law. View Enacted Bills »
Those bills were: H.R. 4970: Protect Innocent Victims Of Taxation …
Compare to all California Delegation (51st percentile); Serving 10+ Years (56th percentile); House Republicans (38th percentile); All Representatives (52nd percentile).
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Powerful Cosponsors
3 of LaMalfa’s bills and resolutions in the 118th Congress had a cosponsor who was a chair or ranking member of a committee that the bill was referred to. Getting support from committee leaders on relevant committees is a crucial step in moving legislation forward.
Those bills were: H.R. 1586: Forest Protection and Wildland Firefighter …; H.R. 4173: Advancing Automation Research and Development …; H.R. 6368: Indian Buffalo Management Act
Compare to all California Delegation (43rd percentile); Serving 10+ Years (54th percentile); House Republicans (51st percentile); All Representatives (54th percentile).
Writing Bipartisan Bills
In this era of partisanship, it is important to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. 10 of LaMalfa’s 17 bills and resolutions had a cosponsor from a different political party than the party LaMalfa caucused with in the 118th Congress.
Compare to all California Delegation (45th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (57th percentile); House Republicans (52nd percentile); All Representatives (54th percentile).
Cosponsors who caucused with neither the Democratic nor Republican party do not count toward this statistic.
Committee Positions
LaMalfa held a leadership position on 0 committees and 1 subcommittee, as either a chair (majority party) or ranking member (minority party), at the end of the session. View LaMalfa’s Profile »
Compare to all California Delegation (31st percentile); Serving 10+ Years (21st percentile); House Republicans (38th percentile); All Representatives (40th percentile).
Joining Bipartisan Bills
Of the 466 bills that LaMalfa cosponsored, 19% were introduced by a legislator who was not a Republican. View Cosponsored Bills »
Compare to all California Delegation (43rd percentile); Serving 10+ Years (58th percentile); House Republicans (74th percentile); All Representatives (61st percentile).
Only Democratic and Republican Members of Congress who cosponsored more than 10 bills and resolutions are included in this statistic.
Cosponsors
LaMalfa’s bills and resolutions had 290 cosponsors in the 118th Congress. Securing cosponsors is an important part of getting support for a bill, although having more cosponsors does not always mean a bill will get a vote. View Bills »
Compare to all California Delegation (35th percentile); Serving 10+ Years (45th percentile); House Republicans (55th percentile); All Representatives (51st percentile).
Leadership Score
Our unique leadership analysis looks at who is cosponsoring whose bills. A higher score shows a greater ability to get cosponsors on bills.
For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in the 118th Congress is considered, the leadership score here may differ from LaMalfa’s score elsewhere on GovTrack.
Compare to all California Delegation (43rd percentile); Serving 10+ Years (49th percentile); House Republicans (47th percentile); All Representatives (54th percentile).
The Hill
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California Republican drowned out by boos at town hall
Aug 13, 2025LaMalfa was greeted by another angry but smaller-scale crowd later Monday at a different town hall in Red Bluff, Calif. He attempted to defend President Trump's agenda, including cuts to ...
CalMatters
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California Republican heckled over health cuts in Trump law
Aug 11, 2025In summary At his first in-person town hall since Trump's megabill became law, Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa largely defended his vote for the legislation while fielding expletive-laden questions from a hostile crowd.
New York Times
Northern California Conservatives Are Frustrated They Could Get a ...
5 days agoIf Democrats oust Mr. LaMalfa, the region would still have Republican control of local government, as Trump supporters have won seats on county boards and city councils.
Jefferson Public Radio
Northern California Republican heckled at packed town hall over Trump ...
Aug 12, 2025At his first in-person town hall since Trump's megabill became law, Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa largely defended his vote for the legislation while fielding expletive-laden questions from a ...
ABC News
Republican Rep. LaMalfa hammered in profanity-laced town hall
Aug 11, 2025The congressman heard it from attendees about Trump, Epstein and tariffs. Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa got an earful at an in-person town hall in Chico, California, Monday morning -- hearing it ...
MSN
MAGA Rep. Doug LaMalfa booed while defending Trump's agenda at ... - MSN
On Monday, California Representative Doug LaMalfa was heckled by his constituents as he defended President Donald Trump's agenda at two town hall events.
abc10.com
Rep. Doug LaMalfa faces hostile town hall in Chico | abc10.com
Aug 11, 2025Rep. Doug LaMalfa confronts boos at Chico town hall as constituents protest his support for Trump's budget cuts affecting Medicaid and Medicare.
San Luis Obispo Tribune
https://www.sanluisobispo.com › news › california › article311665565.html
Doug LaMalfa faces criticism at fiery Chico town hall | San Luis Obispo ...
Aug 11, 2025Doug LaMalfa faced criticism from Chico constituents in a contentious town hall, addressing veteran care, Trump's agenda, and federal spending.
The Independent
Republican's town hall descends into chaos as angry voters rage over ...
Aug 12, 2025A California lawmaker has become the latest Trump-era Republican to face the ire of his constituents at a town hall that devolved into chaos Monday morning. Doug LaMalfa, a fourth-generation rice ...
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Redistricting
See also: Redistricting in California and California Proposition 40, State Senate Redistricting Plan Referendum (2012)
In August 2011, the California Citizens Redistricting Commission completed the new Congressional and state legislative maps for the 2012-2020 elections. A referendum began in August 2011 to repeal the Senate map. Supporters have until November 13, 2011 to collect the 504,760 signatures that are required to qualify the measure for the ballot. Among the drive supporters are former Governor Pete Wilson and State Senate Minority Leader Bob Dutton.[[2]](https://ballotpedia.org/Joel_Anderson_%28California%29#cite_note-2) Four other GOP senators immediately contributed more than $5,000 to the referendum group FAIR:[[3]](https://ballotpedia.org/Joel_Anderson_%28California%29#cite_note-3)
Tony Strickland: $25,000
Mimi Walters: $25,000
Joel Anderson: $10,000
Doug La Malfa: $5,000
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Report: 140 House Members Vote Against Chemical Safeguards Every Time
The Environmental Working Group Action Fund, the political arm of the Environmental Working Group (EWG), released a first-ever report that scores how each member of the U.S. House of Representatives voted on chemical policy and safety.
The scorecard shows that 140 House members voted against chemical safeguards every time, while 149 members consistently voted for chemical safety protections.
"While no president has ever done as much to weaken safeguards for toxic chemicals as Donald Trump, too many members of Congress have collaborated with the Trump administration or cast votes in favor of policies that reversed or delayed chemical bans, gutted chemical safety rules, rejected sound science, weakened worker and consumer protections, and denied justice to asbestos victims," the report said.
The report specifically focused on 17 bills and amendments that were up for a vote during the 115th and 114th Congresses.
The EWG Action Fund also singled out several lawmakers, including Rep. Jason Lewis (R-Minn.), Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas), Rep. Doug Collins (R-Ga.), Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas), Rep. Jason Smith (R-Mo.) and Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.), who the action fund says introduced or co-sponsored measures that weaken existing chemical safety laws.
"Over and over, too many legislators voted to support President Trump's agenda to eliminate toxic chemical safeguards," said Scott Faber, speaking on behalf of EWG Action Fund, in a statement received by EcoWatch.
"Too many members of Congress have collaborated with the Trump administration to advance policies that reject sound science and weaken worker and consumer protections," Faber added. "And many more stood by silently when Trump's EPA reversed or delayed chemical bans or gutted chemical safety rules."
Most Republican members of Congress were graded poorly in the report. However, the action fundpraisedthe lawmakers that bucked their party to vote for chemical safety, including Reps. Frank LoBiondo (R-N.J.), John Duncan (R-Tenn.), Walter Jones (R-N.C.) and others who voted to protect asbestosvictims.
The action fund also noted that Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) voted for funding chemical reviews and against a farm bill that included pesticide safety loopholes. Florida Reps. Carlos Curbelo and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen voted against efforts to weaken agency science, and Illinois Republican Rep. Rodney Davis voted against toxic air pollution loopholes.
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On Sunday, we launched LCV’s very own, first-ever Environmental March Madness, asking LCV members to vote for their (least) favorite low-scorers from our 2014 National Environmental Scorecard. And the results are in! After tallying your votes, we’re now down to the Final Four: Jim Inhofe (R-OK) vs. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in the U.S. Senate, and Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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The Secular Coalition for America has released its congressional report card [3] for the 2013 year. Each year the Secular Coalition grades both house and senate members from a scale from A to F based on their voting records, not their personal religious beliefs, on the issues that involve the separation of church and state.
Not surprising to many that all seven A grades are awarded to democrats, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (CT), Sen. Mazie Hirono (HI), Sen. Dick Durbin (IL), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (MA), Sen. Al Franken (MN), Sen. Frank Lautenberg (NJ), and Sen. Robert Menendez (NJ), Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC), Rep. Rush Holt (NJ), and Rep. Louise Slaughter (NY).
While no Republicans received an A, for the first time three did receive a B grade: Murkowski (AK), Kirk (IL) and Collins (ME).
Yet 58 percent of the members of Congress received an F grade. That is 315 members who voted for or supported bills that granted special rights to religious organizations, discriminated against LGBT issues, women’s rights issues, contraception and sexual education and issues like prayer in federal environments.
According to the Secular Coalitions website, the grades are based on certain key bills:
In the House, some of the key votes were H.R. 592 which would have allowed for FEMA funding for churches, Amdt.169 to H.R.1960 which would have allowed for a humanist chaplain in the military, and H.R. 914, the so-called “Military Religious Freedom Protection Act.” Among the Senate bills scored were S.Amdt. 2013 to S. 815 which would have expanded the religious exemption of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act of 2013, and S.1279 the so-called “Freedom to Pray Act.”
Below is a look at the five worst offenders from the House and the Senate. Three of which tied for the lowest score of five percent approval granted by the Secular Coalition.
These five members of Congress have shown they vote with their Bibles first, regardless of what their constituents want or what is constitutional. They are openly willing to discriminate against men and women if their personal beliefs get in the way.
1. Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-CA)
LaMalfa scored a low 5 percent from the Secular Coalition. He voted continuously against church and state separation, opposing non theistic chaplains in the military, sponsored a bill against the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, and sponsoring a bill to restore first amendment speech rights to Churches.
He has stated he believes the Bible preaches that individuals, and not government, should take care of the poor: "We should be doing this as individuals, helping the poor.” He has endorsed the privatization of social welfare.
Like most Tea Party Republicans, LaMalfa has taken a strong stance against a women’s right to choose and same-sex marriage. He at one point said that women needed to be informed that abortion causes cancer (it doesn't): "Research has shown that there is a higher level of incidence, there is that risk and so I would want women to be fully informed of all the aspects of it before they would make a decision like that.”
He later apologized for such remarks and said his research was flawed on that matter.
In his fight for marriage inequality he has said, “Marriage has been debased. Why vote? It doesn’t stop here. Churches will be forced to do things they are against.”
Churches are not required to perform same-sex marriages—or any marriage—if they do not want to. LaMalfa loves rhetoric such as this to rile up the Tea Party troops into thinking the left is going to attack religious freedom.
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Douglas L. LaMalfa (born July 2, 1960) is an American politician. A Republican, he has been the U.S. Representative forCalifornia's 1st congressional district, located in Northern California, since 2013. LaMalfa previously served in the California State Assembly, representing the 2nd district, from 2002 to 2008, and he served in the California State Senate, representing the 4th district, from 2010 to 2012.
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1 Early life, education, and early career
4 U.S. House of Representatives
Early life, education, and early career
LaMalfa is a fourth generation rice farmer and a lifelong Northern California resident. He and his wife, Jill, along with their four children, make their home on the family farm in Richvale, California. LaMalfa graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with aBachelor's degree in Ag/Business. He manages the family farming business originally founded by his great-grandfather in 1931.
He was elected as a founding director of the California Rice Commission from Butte County. LaMalfa also served on the Domestic Promotion Committee of the USA Rice Federation. He was chairman of the Richvale Foundation Boosters, an organization dedicated to maintaining the profitability of the Richvale Café, a community meeting facility. LaMalfa is an owner and manager of the Dsl Lamalfa Family Partnership. Since 1995, Dsl Lamalfa Family Partnership has received payments totaling $5,132,156 in federal commodity subsidies.[2]
California Assembly
Elections
In 2002, LaMalfa ran for the California Assembly in the 2nd District. He won the Republican primary with 59% of the vote,[3]and the general election with 67%.[4] He won re-election in 2004 (68%)[5] and 2006 (68%).[6]
Tenure
LaMafla worked with Bernie Richter as an early supporter of Proposition 209, which ended affirmative action in California. He also worked for passage of the Protection of Marriage Act, Proposition 22, which banned Same-sex marriage in California, and after that initiative was overturned by the courts, he was an early supporter and active in the Proposition 8 campaign.[7]LaMalfa authored ACA 22 to protect private property owners from government abuse of eminent domain. He also wrote the Forest Fire Protection Act of 2004 to allow landowners to make their rural lands fire-safe and without forest management.
LaMalfa opposed Mike Feuer's microstamping bill, AB 1471, which was signed into law by Governor Arnold Schwarzeneggeron October 13, 2007.[8] He opposed Speaker Fabian Núñez's bill AB 8, which was designed to mandate businesses of a certain size to provide health insurance to their employees.
LaMalfa was a co-author of ACA 20, which, similar to Arizona's new law, would empower law enforcement to act as Immigration, Customs Enforcement Agents and would have cracked down on illegal immigration.[9] ACA 20 failed to pass the first hearing by a 3-to-6 vote.
In 2007, he successfully passed AB 1645, a law that would prevent seizures of firearms in the event of an emergency or natural disaster. This was the first pro-gun legislation passed and signed into law in a decade. LaMalfa was named the California Rifle and Pistol Associations "Legislator of the Year".[citation ^needed]
Committee assignments
Joint Committee on Legislative Audit[10]
Public Safety[11]
West Nile virus[12]
California Senate
2010 election
In 2010, he ran for the California State Senate in the 4th District. In the Republican primary, he defeated State Representative Rick Keene 58%–42%.[13] In the general election, he defeated Lathe Gill 68%–32%.[14]
Tenure
In November 2011, LaMalfa led the Republican opposition against a proposed bullet train saying "In light of the High Speed Rail plan that was submitted and that the numbers still do not work, California in this dire fiscal crisis that we're in, we're going to introduce legislation to repeal the HSR Authority and the funding for that the state was going to put forward."[15]
LaMalfa gave Democrat Governor Jerry Brown a "C" for his fiscal policies in 2011.[16]
LaMalfa opposed a bill that would require history teachers in all California public schools to teach history of homosexuality and gay civil rights. LaMalfa stated the Governor Brown was "out of touch with what I think are still mainstream American values. That's not the kind of stuff I want my kids learning about in public school. They've really crossed a line into a new frontier."[17]
LaMalfa strongly opposed the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, which would eliminate the Electoral College. He argued "I think this is dangerous. It flies in the face of 220 years of election law. We have an electoral college; it was put there for a reason."[18]
Committee assignments
Agriculture
Budget and Fiscal Review
Elections and Constitutional Amendments (Vice Chair)
Governance and Finance
Natural Resources and Water (Vice Chair)
Veterans Affairs
Joint Committee on Legislative Audit
Joint Committee on Fairs, Allocation, and Classification (Chair)
Joint Committee on Fisheries and Aquaculture[19]
U.S. House of Representatives
2012 election
Main article: United States House of Representatives elections in California, 2012
In January 2012, U.S. Congressman Wally Herger announced that he was retiring and said "Senator LaMalfa is running for Congress, and will do so with the endorsement of Congressman Herger."[20] LaMalfa won the primary election in June 2012 with 38% of the vote in an eight-person race and winning 10 out of the district's 11 counties.[21] On November 6, 2012, LaMalfa defeated Democratic Party candidate Jim Reed 57%–43%.[22]
Committee assignments
Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management
Subcommittee on Horticulture, Research, Biotechnology, and Foreign Agriculture
Committee on Natural Resources
Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs
Subcommittee on Public Lands and Environmental Regulation
Subcommittee on Water and Power
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Media attendees at Rep. Doug LaMalfa's (R-Calif.) first town hall were left with a head-scratcher.
The Redding Record-Searchlight reported late Monday that a Tea Party group instituted a blackout during the scheduled Q&A section of LaMalfa's appearance. The paper claims that it was also asked to refrain from tweeting his comments, or face a potential ban from future events.
KRCR-TV adds that the following ground rules were set by a Tea Party organizer before LaMalfa's event: no filming of the congressman's introduction or the Q&A session, as well as a request for the TV station to exit before that latter portion of the event began. According to KRCR's Monday on-air report, Tea Party members wrote in Facebook posts that the restrictions were due to displeasure with the media outlet's past coverage.
LaMalfa took office in January after defeating Jim Reed in the 2012 House race for California's 1st District. He turned heads with September comments linking abortion to cancer.
"Research has shown there is that there is that higher level of incidence, there is that risk and so I would want women to be fully informed of all the aspects of it before they would make a decision like that," he said during a mid-September debate aired on KRCR-TV. "I think that shows more care for women then by simply shuffling them off to an abortion mill and so that's a very important distinction that needs to be made."
LaMalfa later backed off the claim, admitting in a statement that he was misinformed.
"After last night's debate I checked the most recent research on the question of a link between abortion and cancer and found that current research does not support the conclusion that abortion causes cancer," he wrote. "I hope that any woman considering this procedure discusses all the health consequences with her doctor and makes a fully informed decision."
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