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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, August 09, 2024
WASHINGTON, April 1, 2015 The vote-a-rama that the Senate held on its budget resolution last week underscored how much Republicans will have to depend on the appropriations process to turn back regulations that they don t like.
The Senate could soon be debating a broad rewrite of the Food for Peace program along with the first congressional authorization for the Obama administration�s $1-billion-a-year Feed the Future initiative.
The chances that immigration bills can even move through the House seems to be falling, even as those in agriculture say the border crackdown is tightening the supply of farmworkers.
With minimal Democratic support, the House passed a spending bill that would block the Obama administration from implementing its Clean Water Act rule in fiscal 2016.
A House committee is preparing to move a bill that would preempt state GMO labeling laws. The chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Fred Upton of Michigan, told Agri-Pulse on Wednesday that he will hold a hearing and then go to subcommittee and full committee markups
Gayle Smith, a member of the National Security Council staff, is being nominated by President Obama as administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Developmen
The battle over the Obama administrationðs attempt to re-define the jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act sharpened this week with a pair of veto threats from the White House. The House is debating an Army Corps of Engineers spending bill (HR 2028) that includes a provision to b
The House Agriculture Committee has advanced bills to ensure that export grain inspections continue during labor dispute and that a government shutdown won�t halt Agriculture Department�s livestock market reports.
The bills, which reauthorize
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, in an historic address to a joint session of Congress, assured lawmakers he was ready to remove protections for his countryðs farmers and was close to finalizing a trade deal with the United States. The U.S. demand that Japan end its sti
Legislation to fast-track new trade agreements is idling as Senate and House leaders gear up for floor debates on the bill, and President Obama steps up his appeals to Democrats for support.
