{"id":391561,"date":"2026-01-06T18:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/391561\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T18:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:16:10","slug":"republican-rep-doug-lamalfa-of-california-dies-reducing-gops-narrow-control-of-the-house-to-218-213","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/391561\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa of California dies, reducing GOP&#8217;s narrow control of the House to 218-213"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Republican Doug LaMalfa, a seven-term U.S. Representative from California, has died, GOP officials said Tuesday. He was 65.<\/p>\n<p>His death, confirmed by Majority Whip Tom Emmer and National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Richard Hudson, reduces the Republicans&#8217; already narrow control of the House to 218 seats to Democrats&#8217; 213.<\/p>\n<p>Details surrounding LaMalfa&#8217;s death were unclear.<\/p>\n<p>LaMalfa was a former state lawmaker and rice farmer. He was first elected to Congress in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>This developing story will be updated.<\/p>\n<p>\n                    A free press is a cornerstone of a healthy democracy.\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"invite_body\">\n                    Support trusted journalism and civil dialogue.\n                <\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/give.newshour.org\/page\/88646\/donate\/1?ea.tracking.id=pbs_news_sept_2025_article&amp;supporter.appealCode=N2509AW1000100\" class=\"donation-link ga-click-funding ga-click-ender-funding\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                    Donate now<\/p>\n<p>                <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Republican Doug LaMalfa, a seven-term U.S. Representative from California, has died, GOP officials said Tuesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-391561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}