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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Tuesday, September 03, 2024
Kevin McCarthy faces his first test as House speaker as Republicans consider a package of rules changes, the first action scheduled in the chamber since McCarthy won the post in the early hours of Saturday.
Kevin McCarthy learned a lesson from his four-day struggle to win the speakership that could have implications for the farm bill and other measures: Get the party hard-liners on board with legislation before taking it to the floor
The chairman-elect of the House Agriculture Committee plans to invite EPA Administrator Michael Regan to testify about the new Waters of the U.S. rule, which the Biden administration released in late December.
States in the Chesapeake Bay watershed must continue to focus on reducing agriculture’s impact on the estuary, a major environmental group said Thursday in its latest update on the bay’s health.
Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., won’t seek re-election in 2024, she said Thursday, but will serve the remaining two years of her term, positioning her to shape a new farm bill in this Congress.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will be announcing new funding today to expand domestic meat processing capacity. Sixteen states will share the assistance, including California, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, New York, Texas and Wisconsin.
The House and Senate Agriculture Committees are ready to focus on debating a new farm bill after lawmakers used the newly enacted omnibus funding package to clear their to-do lists. But it took several years to pass a farm bill the last time a divided Congress tried to do the job.