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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, August 16, 2024
Democrats won House passage of a package of fiscal 2023 appropriations bills that includes new funding for conservation technical assistance and rural broadband Thursday as well as substantial spending increases for EPA and the Interior Department.
In advance of a congressional hearing today focused on concerns that the Food and Drug Administration’s oversight of food safety is dysfunctional, FDA Commissioner Robert Califf announced he is launching a “comprehensive evaluation” of the agency’s food programs.
The Food and Drug Administration plans to extend the compliance deadline for pre-harvest water testing requirements for produce other than sprouts, the agency said in a proposal that also extends the comment period on proposed changes to those requirements.
President Joe Biden is insisting that he will pursue his climate agenda by executive action, now that Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., appears to have killed any hope of passing a package of clean energy incentives and farm bill conservation funding.
The House will debate a package of six spending bills that include funding for departments and agencies critical to agriculture, and Republicans are pushing for votes on amendments aimed at highlighting key parts of President Joe Biden’s regulatory agenda.
A pair of senior House and Senate Democrats are offering legislation that would spin off the existing food safety functions of the Food and Drug Administration into a new, separate federal agency.
The House Appropriations Committee advanced a $27.2 billion spending bill for the Agriculture Department and Food and Drug Administration that would provide significant new funding for conservation technical assistance, rural broadband and food safety.
The Agriculture Department would get $560 million more for rural broadband expansion, plus increases for research, food aid and combating animal and plant diseases, under a draft House spending bill for fiscal 2023.