Articles Tagged with ''House Natural Resources Committee''

Daybreak Dec. 18: Farm aid secure, ag groups urge passage of year-end bill

12/18/24 10:00 AM By Philip Brasher, Rebekah Alvey, Oliver Ward, and Lydia Johnson

Farm groups have a lot to cheer in the massive year-end funding bill that congressional leaders finally released Tuesday evening. House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson wants to take up a new farm bill early in 2025, and he says he's encouraging farm groups to "relax" about RFK Jr.

Craig wins top Democratic slot on House Ag

Huffman gets Natural Resources post

12/17/24 10:57 AM By Rebekah Alvey

Minnesota Rep. Angie Craig was elected Tuesday as the top Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, giving her the responsibility of leading her party on farm policy in a new Congress controlled by Republicans who may try to slash spending and roll back the Biden administration's climate agenda.

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Farm Hands on the Potomac: Koch joins Grains Council, Hovermale to retire from NOPA, Bilobran to lead ProEgg

12/04/24 6:00 AM By Lydia Johnson

Colorado farmer-owned cooperative ProEgg tapped Greg Bilobran as CEO. The U.S. Grains Council hired Alicia Koch as director of global ethanol export development. Jennifer Warren departed from the National Sorghum Producers.

Faith Mabry, communications director for Rep. David Valadao, R-Calif., left her position. National Oilseed Processors Association executive vice president of government affairs David Hovermale will retire at the end of the year.

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Opinion: It’s time to reform the endangered species act

10/02/24 11:43 AM By Reps. Dan Newhouse and Bruce Westerman

In this joint opinion piece, Congressional Western Caucus Chairman Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., and House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Bruce Westerman, R-Ark., highlight legislation they recently introduced to reform the Endangered Species Act.

Farm Hands on the Potomac: Steiner joins OFW; USDA staff appointments; CoBank taps Burke

07/24/24 6:00 AM By Lydia Johnson

Washington veteran Eric Steiner will join Olsson Frank Weeda Terman Matz’s (OFW) Government Relations’ team as a senior policy advisor. The Agriculture Department announced senior appointments and promotions across the agency, including: Cindy Long, Sean Babington, and Eric Deeble. CoBank named; Sean Burke; as chief financial officer. He will lead the cooperative bank’s finance group. Animal Health Institute president and CEO Mathews will retire at the end of 2024.

Lawmakers vote to overturn LPC listing but veto looms

08/02/23 6:10 AM By Philip Brasher

Lawmakers have cleared a resolution that would overturn the Biden administration’s listing of the lesser prairie chicken under the Endangered Species Act, but the measure failed to get veto-proof majorities in either the House or Senate.

Daybreak May 24: Scott sounding confident on work rules

05/24/23 10:00 AM By Philip Brasher, Bill Tomson, Steve Davies, and Noah Wicks

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy continues to publicly press the issue of work requirements during the debt limit talks.

Daybreak Sept. 8: AFBF ‘deeply concerned’ with spending package

09/08/21 10:00 AM By Philip Brasher, Steve Davies, Noah Wicks, Bill Tomson, and Ben Nuelle

House Democrats are moving ahead this week with debating key provisions of the $3.5 trillion tax and spending package. The House Ways and Means Committee has announced plans to take up the health care, paid leave and child care provisions Thursday and Friday. That would push its action on tax issues into next week.

Democrats pulling together $3.5T tax and spending package

09/08/21 6:46 AM By Philip Brasher

House Democrats are forging ahead with writing a massive new tax and spending package with major implications for the next farm bill as well as producers’ finances.

Interior, USDA coordinating on Western drought relief

05/26/21 8:10 AM By Amy Mayer

The Biden administration is assuring lawmakers that it's working to provide short-term emergency relief to the drought-stricken West even as farm groups continue to push for some relaxation of environmental rules that limit access to irrigation water.

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12.13.2024

Agri-Pulse Newsmakers: Dec. 13, 2024: Sen. Boozman on farm bill, RFK, Rollins

Republicans will take control of the Senate in January, making John Boozman chairman of the Senate Ag Committee. We asked him about his plans for the committee, including collaborating with Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who's in line to be the ranking member, and how Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees may influence agriculture.

Then, Laura Wood from LWP Consulting and Invariant’s Danielle Beck discuss the contentious House Ag Committee ranking member race and the future of the farm bill in a new Congress.

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