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WASHINGTON—Yesterday, incoming Blue Dog Co-Chairs—Reps. Stephanie Murphy (FL-07), Tom O'Halleran (AZ-01), Lou Correa (CA-46), and Rep.-elect Anthony Brindisi (NY-22)—sent a letter to House Speaker-Designate Nancy Pelosi and Democratic Leader-Designate Steny Hoyer, calling for H.R. 1 to include significant redistricting reform, a longtime priority of the Blue Dog Coalition. Specifically, incoming Blue Dog leadership called for H.R. 1 to include H.R.
WASHINGTON—Yesterday, the House passed the Farm Bill Conference Report to accompany H.R. 2, Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018. Under the leadership of longtime member of the Blue Dog Coalition and Ranking Member of the House Agriculture Committee, Rep. Collin Peterson (MN-07), Republican and Democratic members came together as the 2018 Farm Bill Conference Committee to develop a bipartisan Farm Bill.
WASHINGTON—Today, the Blue Dog Coalition announced that Representative-Elect Anthony Brindisi (NY-22) will be a member of the Coalition's leadership team as the Co-Chair for Whip. The Co-Chair for Whip will serve alongside the other Co-Chairs to help lead the Blue Dog Coalition in the fight to restore the American Dream and put our country on the path to prosperity. The Coalition will continue to focus on its long-held mission to pursue commonsense, bipartisan solutions that will get our country's fiscal house in order and ensure a strong national defense.
WASHINGTON—Earlier this week, the Blue Dog Coalition announced its leadership for the 116th Congress and inducted seven new members. Next Congress, the Coalition will fight to restore the American Dream and put our country on the path to prosperity.
The Blue Dog Coalition on Tuesday elected three new co-chairs — all current freshmen — to lead the group of two dozen fiscally conservative Democrats in the next Congress.
Florida Rep. Stephanie Murphy will serve as the administration co-chair, Arizona Rep. Tom O'Halleran as the policy co-chair and California Rep. Lou Correa as the communications co-chair.
WASHINGTON—Today, the Blue Dog Coalition announced its leadership for the 116th Congress and inducted several new members. In the 116th Congress, the Coalition will fight to restore the American Dream and put our country on the path to prosperity. The Coalition will continue to focus on its long-held mission to pursue commonsense, bipartisan solutions that will get our country's fiscal house in order and ensure a strong national defense.
The Blue Dog Coalition's leadership for the 116th Congress will include:
WASHINGTON—Today, the Co-Chairs of the Blue Dog Coalition—Reps. Jim Costa (CA-16), Henry Cuellar (TX-28), and Dan Lipinski (IL-03)—met with Leader Nancy Pelosi and released the following statement:
"Today, we had a conversation with Leader Pelosi regarding the anticipated increase in the Blue Dog Coalition's membership and the need to ensure the Democratic Caucus is representative of the broad views of its membership going into the 116th Congress.
Today, in an Agri-Pulse editorial, the Chairman of the Blue Dog Special Task Force on Rural America, Rep. Tom O'Halleran (AZ-01), and the Co-Chair of the House Democratic Policy and Communications Committee (DPCC), Rep. Cheri Bustos (IL-17), sent a clear message to rural America: The gridlock in Washington does not reflect the values of the rural communities around the country – and that has to change.
Rural communities that were left behind during the post-Recession recovery are fed up with lip service from politicians in Washington.
In the 2016 campaign, rural Americans were promised a better life: There would be more jobs, better health care, and most of all, that they would have a voice in Washington. Two years after the 2016 election, these hardworking Americans still have not seen results, and unfortunately, they are now facing additional challenges.
The Blue Dog Coalition has endorsed the Problem Solvers Caucus' Break the Gridlock, a package of proposed changes to the House Rules that would make Congress work for the American people. The Blue Dog Coalition is the first official caucus within the U.S. House of Representatives to back the proposal since the Problem Solvers Caucus introduced it.