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While the timing for TPA remains up in the air, the House is scheduled to vote next on bills to repeal country-of-origin labeling (COOL) requirements for meat (HR 2393) and to reauthorize the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will vote sometime in the next two weeks on a bill to kill the rule re-defining what streams, ditches and wetlands will be regulated under the Clean Water Act as waters of the United States (WOTUS).

The clock is ticking on an effort to get Congress to preempt state GMO labeling laws.

Not everyone who graced the stage at the Iowa State Fairgrounds was asked the same question, but moderator Bruce Rastetter did a great job making sure they responded to several key issues, while limiting each one to about 20 minutes. HereÐs an overview of how they answered.

Next week, the congressional budget committees are expected to take up resolutions laying out tax and spending plans aimed at reducing the federal budget deficit.

Dietary science has always been shifting and incomplete. ThatÐs the reason the federal dietary guidelines are required by law to be revised every five years. But recent shifts in scientific thinking and increasingly public debates have emboldened critics inside and outside Congress t

The Obama administrationÐs ambitious agricultural development initiative known as Feed the Future has never been authorized in law, leaving it with an uncertain future. But supporters are about to renew an effort to provide the $1-billion-a-year program with congressio

The SenateÐs budget resolution is providing an important chance for senators to test support for a number of issues, and no vote may be more interesting than one expected today, Wednesday, on the Obama administrationÐs proposed Clean Water Act rule.