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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, September 14, 2024
Rep. Jim Jordan, one of two candidates to become House speaker, said Sunday the new leader’s first order of business is to ensure Israel gets the U.S. support it needs, and then lawmakers must deal with the looming expiration of the stopgap spending bill that’s keeping the government open.
Rep. Dan Newhouse, a moderate House Republican and congressional leader on ag and immigration policy, said Friday he wants to hear from the speaker candidates how they plan to move a farm bill as well as appropriations and other legislation.
The chaos among House Republicans isn’t the only hurdle facing a new farm bill. Senate Republican Whip John Thune, R-S.D., says the Senate Ag Committee remains divided over key issues, including what to do about the major commodity programs.
Two leading Republicans have jumped into the race for House speaker, Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the current House majority leader, and Jim Jordan of Ohio, the House Judiciary Committee chairman.
Even as the airlines struggle to figure out how to pay for the high cost of reducing their carbon footprint, there is significant uncertainty about the political future of fledgling tax incentives that are supposed to reduce the high cost of producing sustainable aviation fuel.
The biofuel and airline industries continue to wait on the Treasury Department to issue some critical guidance that will determine which feedstocks can qualify for a new tax credit for sustainable aviation fuel.
Congress averted a government shutdown that could have disrupted a wide range of federal services starting Sunday when the House and then the Senate approved a stopgap spending bill to keep agencies funded through Nov. 17.