27 Facts About Doug LaMalfa

Douglas Lee LaMalfa is an American politician serving as the US representative for California's 1st congressional district since 2013.

Doug LaMalfa is a fourth-generation rice farmer and lifelong Northern California resident.

Doug LaMalfa graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo with a Bachelor's degree in agricultural business.

In 2002, Doug LaMalfa ran for the California Assembly in the 2nd District.

Doug LaMalfa worked with Bernie Richter as an early supporter of Proposition 209, which ended affirmative action in California.

Doug LaMalfa worked for passage of the Protection of Marriage Act, Proposition 22, which banned same-sex marriage in California, and after the California Supreme Court overturned that initiative in In re Marriage Cases, he was an early supporter of and active in the Proposition 8 campaign, an initiative that would overturn the court ruling and again ban same-sex marriage.

Doug LaMalfa opposed Mike Feuer's microstamping bill, AB 1471, which Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law on October 13,2007.

Doug LaMalfa was a co-author of ACA 20, which would empower law enforcement to act as Immigration, Customs Enforcement Agents and would have cracked down on illegal immigration.

In 2007, Doug LaMalfa successfully passed AB 1645, a law that would prevent seizures of firearms in the event of an emergency or natural disaster.

In 2010, Doug LaMalfa ran for the California State Senate in the 4th District.

In November 2011, Doug LaMalfa opposed 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".

Doug LaMalfa opposed a bill that would require history teachers in all California public schools to teach history of homosexuality and gay civil rights.

Doug LaMalfa's campaign altered the wording on the document in its mailer.

Public statements made by Doug LaMalfa have demonstrated a misinterpretation or misunderstanding of climate change.

Doug LaMalfa has said, "The climate of the globe has been fluctuating since God created it", and that the Book of Genesis disproves the scientific consensus on climate change, which he has called "bad science".

Doug LaMalfa claimed it is not Congress's job to deal with racism in the government.

In June 2021, Doug LaMalfa was one of 14 House Republicans to vote against legislation to establish Juneteenth, a celebration of the end of slavery, as a federal holiday.

In 2017, his spokesman, Parker Williams, said that Doug LaMalfa "voted to end direct farm subsidy payments in the very first farm bill he worked on" and that a new farm bill proposed does not provide subsidies for rice grown in California, a crop that Doug LaMalfa farms.

Doug LaMalfa opposes same-sex marriage and has said that legalizing it would "open the floodgates" for polygamy to be legalized.

Doug LaMalfa voted in favor of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.

Doug LaMalfa said that the bill will give a "booster shot to the US economy", enable businesses to hire more workers, and cause more products to be made in the USA, especially in Redding.

In November 2021, after Representative Paul Gosar shared an animated video of himself killing Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and attacking President Biden, Doug LaMalfa voted against Gosar's censure.

In September 2021, Doug LaMalfa was among 75 House Republicans to vote against the National Defense Authorization Act of 2022, which contains a provision that would require women to be drafted.

Doug LaMalfa has expressed support for prosecuting minors charged with felonies as adults and has supported the construction of additional juvenile detention centers.

Doug LaMalfa commutes weekly from California to Washington, DC He is an owner and manager of the DSL Doug LaMalfa Family Partnership, which owns and operates the family rice farm in Richvale, California.

Doug LaMalfa employs a farm manager who runs the farm while he is in Washington.

Doug LaMalfa has donated over $100,000 to his own campaigns and other Republican Party causes and candidates.