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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, October 19, 2024
Top staff from the House and Senate Ag committees continue their private talks this week on a possible new farm bill, even as lawmakers appear headed to agreement on a stopgap spending bill before heading home to campaign.
The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Jason Smith, is our guest on Agri-Pulse Newsmakers this week. He talks about the tax issues facing Congress next year, and the differences between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris when it comes to trade as well as tax policy.
On to Plan B. House Republican leaders were unable to win passage Wednesday night of a stopgap spending bill that would have kept the government funded at current levels into March.
Leaders of the Senate and House Ag committees were featured at the annual Friends of the National Arboretum dinner Tuesday night in Washington – and both were separately expressing some optimism about getting a new farm bill yet this year.
More than a dozen ground cinnamon products have been recalled over the last year, after the Food and Drug Administration boosted efforts to monitor and test lead levels, following last year's recall of apple-cinnamon puree products linked with over 500 cases of lead poisoning in children.
House Republicans this week will put a focus on a key part of the Biden administration’s climate policy that former President Donald Trump is promising to undo if he wins the White House.
House Republicans will force a vote this week on EPA’s new emission standards that critics say amount to a mandate for electric vehicles. Meanwhile, some staff-level talks continue on a possible new farm bill amid a continued sharp divide over how to fund it.
Boar’s Head announced Friday it plans to indefinitely close its Jarratt, Virginia plant, which produced deli meat linked to a deadly listeria outbreak.