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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>FYI. RTVA<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><img width=525 height=108 id="Picture_x0020_4" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CF8ADC.7EF3F870"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:red'>***PRESS RELEASE***</span></b><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><br><br>Denham Commemorates National Pollinator Week<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 style='border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width=295 valign=top style='width:221.4pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td width=295 valign=top style='width:221.4pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Contact:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> </span><a href="mailto:jordan.langdon@mail.house.gov"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Jordan Langdon</span></a><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td width=295 valign=top style='width:221.4pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Date</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>: June 18, 2014</span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td width=295 valign=top style='width:221.4pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>(202) 225-4540</span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr><td width=295 valign=top style='width:221.4pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>PERMALINK</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=295 valign=top style='width:221.4pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>WASHINGTON —</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> U.S. Representative Jeff Denham (R-Turlock) today released the following statement commemorating National Pollinator Week, celebrated from June 16-22, 2014:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“As a co-chair of the Congressional Pollinator Protection Caucus, I am committed to fostering a healthy apiary industry and proud to recognize National Pollinator Week. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“The crucial role of insect pollinators in ensuring our agricultural community thrives cannot be overstated. Across the Central Valley, farmers depend upon insect pollinators to help them grow the food to feed the rest of the nation. Pollinator health is just one of many reasons why we must act to address our state’s crippling drought, the worst of my lifetime, which is devastating farm land across the state.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“Last month Rep. Alcee Hastings and I introduced the Highways Bettering the Economy and Environment (Highways BEE) Act to encourage individual states to make decisions that take their pollinators into account when maintaining their highways. After years of steady decline in our pollinator population, we must continue to do all we can to protect the long-term viability of our bees and other beneficial insects.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>About National Pollinator Week<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>National Pollinator Week is managed by the Polliantor Partnership and is an international celebration of the valuable ecosystem services provided by bees, birds, butterflies, bats and beetles. Pollinating animals are vital to our delicate ecosystem, supporting terrestrial wildlife, providing healthy watershed, and more. Therefore, Pollinator Week is a week to get the importance of pollinators’ message out to as many people as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNoSpacing align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>###<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Jordan Langdon<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Communications Director<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Congressman Jeff Denham, CA-10<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>1730 Longworth HOB<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>Washington, D.C. 20515<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'>P: (202) 225-4540<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.facebook.com/RepJeffDenham"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=18 height=18 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.png@01CF8ADC.7EF3F870" alt=Facebook></span></a><a href="http://www.twitter.com/repjeffdenham"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=17 height=17 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image003.png@01CF8ADC.7EF3F870" alt=Twitter></span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif"'> </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/jeffdenham19"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=17 height=17 id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image004.png@01CF8ADC.7EF3F870" alt=YouTube></span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div>
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