California Representative Doug LaMalfa has died unexpectedly at age 65, reducing the House Republican majority to just two votes and putting House Speaker Mike Johnson’s hold on power in an even more tenuous state.
LaMalfa’s death after more than a decade representing the state’s First Congressional District was announced by the House Republican Conference on X in a post which called him “a lifelong resident of Northern California and a fourth-generation rice farmer” who “spent more than two decades in public service.”
