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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, July 14, 2024
Debbie Stabenow, Pat Roberts, Tom Vilsack, GMO Food Labeling, Vermont, Pamela Bailey, Grocery Manufacturers Association, Philadelphia, American Beverage Association, Rosa DeLauro, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, White House
The Senate Appropriations Committee advanced a fiscal 2017 spending bill that would block the Obama administration`s `waters of the United States` rule, curb work on greenhouse gas regulations and bar some endangered species protections.
Clean Water Act, California drought, Waters of the U.S., House Appropriations Committee, Interior-Environment bill, Army Corps of Engineers, Tom Vilsack, Pat Roberts, Debbie Stabenow, Chuck Conner, Jerry Moran, USDA Catfish Inspection
Republicans are setting the stage for another fight over the Obama administrationPs Pwaters of the United StatesP (WOTUS) rule during budget negotiations with the White House later this year.
House Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop says a final energy bill will have to include provisions to address the drought in California and other Western states. The House-passed legislation (S. 2012) includes provisions sponsored by Rep. David Valadao, R-Calif
The food and agriculture industry�s hopes for blocking Vermont�s first-in-the-nation GMO labeling requirements are hanging on Senate negotiations that suddenly became serious late last week.
Leaders of the Senate Agriculture Committee said they were making �good progress� toward an agreement on labeling biotech foods but still had several issues to resolve.
Aides to the committee met until 10:30 p.m. Thursday and continue
There are signs of progress in the search for a congressional agreement on biotech labeling. Senate Agriculture Chairman Pat Roberts, ranking Democrat Debbie Stabenow and their aides met off the Senate floor yesterday to work through differences over a bill that would preempt state biotech