{"id":17342,"date":"2026-01-06T14:46:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-lawmaker-doug-lamalfa-dies-at-65\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T14:46:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T14:46:48","slug":"gop-lawmaker-doug-lamalfa-dies-at-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-lawmaker-doug-lamalfa-dies-at-65\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP lawmaker Doug LaMalfa dies at 65"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Rep. Doug LaMalfa, a California Republican known for his expertise on water and forestry issues, has died at 65, according to statements from GOP officials.<\/p>\n<p>LaMalfa, a fourth-generation rice farmer and former state legislator, was serving his seventh term. He sat on the Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Transportation and Infrastructure committees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Doug was a loving father and husband, and staunch advocate for his constituents and rural America,&#8221; House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) said in a statement posted to social media. &#8220;Our prayers are with Doug\u2019s wife, Jill, and their children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Doug LaMalfa, a California Republican known for his expertise on water and forestry issues, has died at 65, according to statements from GOP officials. LaMalfa, a fourth-generation rice farmer and former state legislator, was serving his seventh term. He sat on the Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Transportation and Infrastructure committees. &#8220;Doug was a loving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}