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WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, 2012 – House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin Peterson, D-Minn., today announced four new

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas, R-Okla., named the five subcommittee chairmen for the 113th Congress.

Members of the House Agriculture Committee from the General Farm Commodities and Risk Management Subcommittee today sent a letter to U.S. financial regulators regarding the impending December 31 cross-border implementation deadline of the Dodd-Frank Act.

Innovation and trade took center stage at the Business Horizon Series: Agriculture conference today, hosted at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Cargill President and CEO Gregory Page asked the agricultural industry to “do more with less” in his keynote speech today at the Business Horizon: Agriculture conference at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., was sworn in Tuesday by Vice President Joe Biden as president pro tempore of the United States Senate, putting him third in the line of presidential succession after the vice president and the speaker of the House.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19, 2012 - Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) today urged the House leadership to include the farm bill in its “final list of things to be done” by the end of the year.

The Advanced Ethanol Council (AEC) released a progress report today on the development of the cellulosic biofuels industry timed on the five-year anniversary of the signing of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said “there is a very serious risk we might not get a farm bill this year,” during a U.S. Chamber of Commerce forum today.

Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) remained hopeful today, despite dwindling congressional time, that negotiators could complete work on the farm bill before the end of the year.