Items Tagged with 'CFIUS'

Donald Trump has reclaimed the presidency, and Republicans will take charge of the Senate in January. Those results have big implications for a lot of issues, including trade and immigration as well as tax and regulatory policy that are critical to agriculture.

Agricultural technology theft, acquisition of land near military sites and illegal access to precision agriculture data are a few of the potential risks presented by the Chinese Communist Party that the House Agriculture Committee weighed Wednesday in an hours-long hearing.

In this opinion piece, Rep. Frank Lucas addresses the issue of foreign farmland acquisition and what Congress is doing to address it.

The Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to bar investors from China, Russia, Iran and North Korea from buying U.S. farmland and require the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. to review land purchases by investors from any other foreign country totaling more than $5 million or 320 acres. 

House Democrats accused Republicans of breaking the debt ceiling agreement by advancing a fiscal 2024 spending bill for USDA and FDA that would cut funding to near FY22 levels while also relying on funding rescissions that have little chance of being enacted.