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An avid San Francisco Giants fan, freshman Rep. Adam Gray represents California’s agriculture-rich Central Valley and sits on both the House Agriculture and Natural Resources committees. In this Meet the Lawmaker episode, Gray explains how his family’s dairy supply company and feed store business as well as his tenure in the California Legislature shaped his priorities on ag trade, farm labor and water policy in Washington.
Rep. Adam Gray was one of only six House Democrats — and the only one from California — who voted with Republicans in favor of a deal to end the government shutdown, and there was a calculated reason behind that decision.
The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Wednesday night to end the longest shutdown in U.S. history. The bill restores federal worker salaries and food aid benefits that had slowed earlier this month. But it doesn’t include healthcare subsidies that Democrats had largely been pushing for. But Merced Democratic Rep. Adam Gray tells KVPR that this doesn’t mean Democrats will stop pushing for those subsidies.
The recent government shutdown made one thing very clear: President Trump and his allies are far too comfortable using vulnerable Americans as political leverage. One of the first things they did during the shutdown was refuse to authorize emergency funds to cover food stamps, delaying Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits nationwide.
WASHINGTON, DC – After his vote to reopen the federal government, Rep. Adam Gray (CA-13) published an opinion editorial in the Turlock Journal. In the op-ed, Rep. Gray writes:
GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN: HOW IT MAY IMPACT YOU
Funding for the federal government expired on September 30, 2025.
I’ve always been a strong advocate for bipartisanship, and I encourage my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to work together to find a commonsense compromise to keep the government open. I am committed to doing everything I can to make that happen.
Artist rendering of Sack Dam and Arroyo Canal project site upon completion of construction.
DOS PALOS, CA – The Bureau of Reclamation has announced they will award $93 million to the Arroyo Canal Fish Screen and Sack Dam Fish Bypass Project near Dos Palos. The construction contract will further Bureau efforts to secure water access for Central Valley users and improve fish passage in the region.
FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A bipartisan group of lawmakers is teaming up to reintroduce a comprehensive immigration reform bill.
Rep. Adam Gray and Rep. David Valadao say The Dignity Act of 2025 will be crucial because it would provide legal status for some undocumented immigrants.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Adam Gray (D-Merced) and Congresswoman Shontel Brown (D-OH), both members of the House Committee on Agriculture, led a letter earlier this month to USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins demanding answers about why the USDA delayed the publication of the Quarterly Agricultural Trade Report and why the late report was incomplete when delivered after its deadline.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congressmen Adam Gray (D-Merced) and Randy Feenstra (R-Iowa) today introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation to give producers fairer market prices for their livestock through disaster assistance programs. The Livestock Indemnity Program (LIP) Improvement Act would require the Farm Service Agency to more regularly update the LIP payment rates that dictate livestock market prices.