A bill sponsored by Rep. Dan Newhouse in the U.S. House seeks to officially name the Yakima air traffic control tower as the Roy A. Rutherford Air Traffic Control Tower, the U.S. Congress reports.
Filed as H.R.8703 on May 7, 2026, during the 119th Congress’s regular session, the proposal is detailed in the official bill text; the information provided here interprets its key provisions for clarity.
Under the proposal, the air traffic control tower at Yakima Air Terminal in Yakima, Washington, would be designated as the “Roy A. Rutherford Air Traffic Control Tower.” This designation would also apply to any successor facilities at the same site. Legal references, regulations, maps and related documents referring to the Yakima control tower would adopt the new name.
Rep. Dan Newhouse (Republican-WA-4th District) introduced the bill as its sole sponsor.
Since the start of the current session, Rep. Newhouse has put forward 20 additional bills.
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Daniel Milton Newhouse, a U.S. representative from Washington, was born July 10, 1955, in Sunnyside, Yakima County. He earned his B.S. from Washington State University in 1977, served in the Washington state House from 2003 to 2009 and led the state’s Department of Agriculture from 2009 to 2013. He was elected to the One Hundred Fourteenth Congress as a Republican and has served through the current term.
| Bill Number | Date Introduced | Short Description |
|---|---|---|
| H.R.8703 | 05/07/2026 | To designate the facility of the Federal Aviation Administration located at Yakima Air Terminal in Yakima, Washington, as the “Roy A. Rutherford Air Traffic Control Tower”. |
| H.R.7406 | 02/05/2026 | Meeting Demand for Organic Produce Act |
| H.R.7074 | 01/14/2026 | Keeping Public Lands Out of Adversarial Hands Act |
| H.R.6474 | 12/04/2025 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the meaning and eligibility of energy communities for purposes of the increased renewable electricity production and increased clean electricity investment credit rates. |
| H.R.6277 | 11/21/2025 | SAWMILL Act |
| H.R.6220 | 11/20/2025 | MIRACLE Act of 2025 |
| H.R.4712 | 07/23/2025 | Parity for Tribal Law Enforcement Act |
| H.R.4345 | 07/10/2025 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand the definition of critical access hospital under the Medicare program to include certain hospitals on Indian reservations. |
| H.R.4258 | 06/30/2025 | To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand the definition of critical access hospital under the Medicare program to include certain hospitals on Indian reservations. |
| H.R.3363 | 05/13/2025 | To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose a tax on United States-bound circumvented cargo through Canada or Mexico and entering the United States. |
| H.R.3011 | 04/24/2025 | United States Postal Service Shipping Equity Act |
| H.R.2074 | 03/11/2025 | POWER Act |
| H.R.2073 | 03/11/2025 | Defending our Dams Act |
| H.R.2072 | 03/11/2025 | To require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to extend the time period during which licensees are required to commence construction of certain hydropower projects. |
| H.R.2024 | 03/11/2025 | Joint Task Force to Counter Illicit Synthetic Narcotics Act of 2025 |
| H.R.1576 | 02/25/2025 | Protecting American Agriculture from Foreign Adversaries Act of 2025 |
| H.R.1575 | 02/25/2025 | No American Land for Communist China Act |
| H.R.1086 | 02/06/2025 | Agriculture Export Promotion Act of 2025 |
| H.R.956 | 02/04/2025 | Aerial Firefighting Enhancement Act of 2025 |
| H.R.626 | 01/22/2025 | Northwest Energy Security Act |
| H.R.236 | 01/07/2025 | Federal Employee Return to Work Act |
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