Members Urge Withdrawal of EPA TMDL Rules Lonoke, Arkansas — Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) of the Agriculture Subcommittee on Department Operations, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) convened a field hearing in Lonoke, Arkansas where a bipartisan group of House Members repeated their calls for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to withdrawal its proposed rules for Total ... Read more »
Bipartisan Group Cites Silviculture Report as Proof of Flaws in EPA's TMDL Rules Today, a bipartisan group of House Members led by Agriculture Subcommittee on Department Operations, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Ranking Member Eva Clayton (D-NC) urged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to withdraw its proposed Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) rules in light of egr... Read more »
Subcommittee Reviews Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 Legislation is Designed to Maintain U.S. Leadership in Finance Today, House Agriculture Subcommittee on Risk Management, Research and Specialty Crops Chairman Tom Ewing (R-IL) convened a hearing to review his recently introduced legislation (H.R. 4541) which reauthorizes the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) and modernizes laws for future... Read more »
Combest, Stenholm Urge EPA Administrator to Withdraw and Modify Proposed TMDL Rule Today, Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee Larry Combest (R-TX) and Ranking Member Charlie Stenholm (D-TX) sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Carol Browner urging that the EPA reconsider its proposed Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) rules for agriculture in light of the Agenc... Read more »
House Votes to Keep Family Farms in the Family Death Tax Repeal Would Remove 60 Percent Penalty on Business Passed to Next Generation With 279 to 136 approval, the U.S. House of Representatives voted Friday afternoon to remove the high-cost tax liability imposed when the owner of a farm or ranch dies and leaves the operation to surviving family members. The penalty can run as high as 55 percent wi... Read more »
House Votes This Week on Killing the Death Tax Repeal of 60 percent Tax Penalty Would Keep Family Farms in the Family House Agriculture Committee Chairman Larry Combest (R-TX) said farming and ranching families would welcome the reduction of tax rates and repeal of the federal estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer tax over the next 10 years. "The Death Tax Elimination Act" (H.R. 8) is sch... Read more »
USDA Making Last Year's Oilseed Payments This Week 1999 Payments Mailing After 8 Months Eight months after Congress approved last October's $475 million assistance to oilseed producers, USDA will make good on those 1999 payments beginning this week — so many months late that both a new crop and congressional approval for this year's oilseed payments are already in place. "USDA will now clear last ... Read more »
Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives gave final approval by unanimous vote for the House-Senate agreement reached Wednesday afternoon on the conference report for the "Agricultural Risk Protection Act" (H.R. 2559), allowing producers the maximum insurance coverage on economic risks faced for weather and market losses in both crops and livestock. The Senate approved the conference report lat... Read more »
USDA Seen as Providing Legal Cover for EPA Wingate, North Carolina — Today, the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition, and Forestry, led by Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), convened a field hearing in Wingate, North Carolina to review the impact on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) proposal to impose Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) for non-point so... Read more »
Bill Would Prevent EPA from Overriding State Authority for TMDLs Today, the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Agriculture Committee were joined by a bipartisan group of 28 co-sponsors in introducing legislation (H.R. 4502) designed to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from overriding congressional intent by imposing new rules regulating Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDL) from ... Read more »
