Rep. Raúl Labrador, R-Idaho, will chair the Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations in the 115th Congress. The panel has jurisdiction over agencies critical to the West. The new assignment was announced Tuesday by Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop, R-Utah. “As a westerner, Congressman Labrador understands the importance of natural resource issues to our states, communities and economy,” Bishop said. “I can count on him to shine a bright light on a broad range of federal actions. The Subcommittee’s work will help the full Committee ensure the executive branch is properly implementing the laws of the United States and doing so fairly and efficiently, and helping to uncover waste, fraud and abuse of taxpayer funds”/news release.