During today's House Agriculture Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry hearing, led by Chairman Bob Goodlatte, the Food Stamp program was reviewed. Specifically, states asked Congress to provide them more flexibility, Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) interoperability, and caseload reduction. Today, three state welfare commissioners asked Congress to provide grea... Read more »
Two legislative measures in the House and Senate will separately address the deepening farm crisis, and House Agriculture Chairman Larry Combest (R-TX) says both are well-timed to producers' needs. On Wednesday, the Senate passed a short-term emergency aid package for this crop year. Meanwhile, the House has slated action next month on "The Agricultural Risk Protection Act" offering new protection... Read more »
The U.S. House Committee on Agriculture on Tuesday, August 3, 1999 finalized proposed improvements to the federal crop insurance program, designing a bill to attract more farmers and ranchers purchasing policies through improved crop protection and the development of new coverage for lost market revenue, and livestock losses. H.R. 2559, "The Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 1999" meets the comm... Read more »
Today, the House Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry, led by Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) reviewed the potentially adverse effects on public health that will result from the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) current process for implementing the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA). The Subcommittee also reviewed yesterday's announcement by Administrator Ca... Read more »
With the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) three months past the due date for providing a legally mandated report on country-of-origin labeling for meat, House Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock and Horticulture Chairman Richard Pombo (R-CA) sent a letter to the General Accounting Office (GAO) requesting that it provide critical cost-benefit information on country-of-origin labeling to the ... Read more »
Today the House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Resource Conservation, and Credit, led by Chairman Bill Barrett (R-NE), reviewed the USDA's administration of the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) and considered legislation (H.R. 408) to increase acreage under the program. "For all its popularity within the conservation community and among farmers and ranchers, it has not bee... Read more »
"The Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 1999," H.R. 2559, which improves producer coverage and flexibility in the federal crop insurance program, will be finalized in the U.S. House Agriculture Committee next Tuesday, July 27. The measure was approved by voice vote early this afternoon by the Subcommittee on Risk Management. Subcommittee Chairman Tom Ewing (R-IL) predicted the U.S. House of Repr... Read more »
Today, the House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Resource Conservation, and Credit led by Chairman Bill Barrett (R-NE) moved legislation (H.R. 728) responding to the maintenance and improvement issues involving a large number of water projects originally funded by the federal government. More than 10,000 small flood prevention dams, mainly located in Iowa, Oklahoma and Texas,... Read more »
With House Agriculture Committee Chairman Larry Combest committed to holding hearings on the full extent of market and weather conditions affecting producers this season, legislation for permanent improvements in production and revenue protection is set for subcommittee consideration Wednesday morning. Full committee action is expected the following week. The resulting improved and expanded crop i... Read more »
At a hearing today of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry, Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) brought together Members of Congress from rural districts, representatives from the Clinton Administration, and community leaders to review legislation (H.R. 2389) which would provide rural areas with financial stability in revenues used for local scho... Read more »
