WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Representatives Jared Huffman (CA-02), Jamie Raskin (MD-8), and Chrissy Houlahan (PA-06) are calling on the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate how military chaplains are recruited, vetted, and trained. The report also examines whether Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s...

Washington, D.C. – Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) urged House and Senate Appropriators to establish strict funding guardrails for the Trump administration’s $500 million request for National Park Service construction, warning that he could abuse a loophole in federal...

Washington, D.C. – As the United States races to reduce its reliance on foreign countries for critical minerals, the federal government has been handing out exclusive rights to mine America’s public lands without checking whether the people and companies receiving those rights meet the requirements to hold them,...

Washington, D.C. — Today, Representative Jared Huffman released the following statement regarding Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s remarks linking Nidal Hasan’s religious beliefs to the decision to livestream his execution:

Washington, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a new report showing that companies trying to build geothermal power on public lands lack basic permitting tools that oil and gas companies already have and face confusing rules with no way to see where their permits stand, even as...

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) reintroduced the National Institutes of Clean Energy Act (NICE), legislation that would invest $400 billion over the next decade to establish and operate a new system of institutes at the Department of Energy...

"Passing a good permitting reform package will be one of my top priorities for the next Congress, so I'm very interested in these Senate negotiations.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Representative Jared Huffman (D-Calif.-02) Ranking Member of the House Committee on Natural Resources, U.S. Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff (both D-Calif.) led 38 members of the California congressional delegation in opposing the Trump Administration’s rescission of the Roadless Rule, a...

Washington, D.C. – Today, Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and Representative Dina Titus (D-Nev.), along with 14 House Democrats, sent a letter demanding answers from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on the Department's reported plans to hand over federal public lands for massive...

Washington, D.C. — Rep. Jared Huffman, Ranking Member of the Committee on Natural Resources, Rep. Robert Garcia, Ranking Member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Gregory W. Meeks, Ranking Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs demanded answers from Secretary of State Marco Rubio and...

Washington, D.C. — Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) released the following statement after The Washington Sun reported that the Trump administration is considering far more data centers on public lands than previously known: “Donald Trump is selling out America’s...

Washington, D.C. – Today, Representative Jared Huffman voted to pass the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) of 2026. This piece of bipartisan legislation authorizes the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' civil works program while advancing critical water infrastructure, ecosystem restoration, and climate resilience...

Washington, D.C. – Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) revealed during a committee hearing that the National Park Service awarded contracts on Sept. 10, with no notice to Congress, to begin work on Donald Trump’s planned takeover of the East Potomac Golf Course.“Democrats...

Washington, D.C. – Today, during the House Natural Resources Committee’s final markup before the November elections, Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) called out Committee Republicans for two years of enabling corruption in the Trump administration and laid out what Democrats will do with the powers of the...

Washington D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources advanced legislation led by Representative Jared Huffman to help designate the Bay Area Ridge Trail as a National Scenic Trail, bringing the decades-long vision of a continuous trail encircling the Bay Area one step closer to reality. The next step...

Washington, D.C. — Current and former Members of Congress mobilized in a court filing challenging the legality of President Donald Trump’s Executive Order seeking to exert control over mail-in ballots ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The effort was led by House Administration Ranking Member Joe Morelle;...

Washington, D.C. – Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) and Committee on House Administration Ranking Member Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.) sent an urgent request to the Government Accountability Office to investigate whether Freedom 250, Trump’s shadow organization that hijacked...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Representative Salud Carbajal (D-CA-24), along with Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Top Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and U.S. Senators Alex Padilla (D-CA) and Adam Schiff (D-CA), led 14 of their colleagues in filing an amicus brief in California v. Wright, pending in the...

Washington, D.C. – Today, Representative Jared Huffman welcomed the Department of Commerce’s fishery disaster determination for the Hoopa Valley Tribe’s Klamath River fall Chinook salmon fishery and California’s red sea urchin fishery, making them eligible to receive federal disaster assistance.

Washington, D.C. — House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) took to the House Floor this week to oppose H.R. 9436, which extends a special industry waiver that will lead to more critically endangered North Atlantic right whales dying in fishing rope, and H.R. 1501, which lets the...