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| Sep 16, 2026 | Chairman Thompson Statement on Advancement of Farm Bill from Senate Agriculture Committee | WASHINGTON — Today, the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry advanced the Agricultural Act of 2026 out of committee.
The legislation complements the bipartisan Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026, led by House ... |
| Aug 6, 2026 | Chairman Thompson Statement on Failure to Advance Farm Bill in Senate Agriculture Committee | WASHINGTON — Today, the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry failed to advance the Agricultural Act of 2026 from committee due to unreasonable Democrat demands. House Committee on Agriculture Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson... |
| Jul 24, 2026 | Committee Cliff Notes: Week of July 20, 2026 | Here’s a recap of key moments from House Republican committees during the week:
Agriculture
On Tuesday, July 21, the Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development held a hearing called "Examining Customer Pro... |
| Jun 26, 2026 | Committee Cliff Notes: Weekly Recap – Week of June 22, 2026 | Here’s a recap of key moments from House Republican committees during the week:
Agriculture
On Wednesday, June 24, the Committee on Agriculture held a full committee hearing with USDA Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation, Ri... |
| Jun 23, 2026 | Committee Cliff Notes: Weekly Preview -- Week of June 22, 2026 | Here’s what to watch for from House Republican committees during the week:
Agriculture
On Wednesday, June 24, the Committee on Agriculture will hold a full committee hearing "To Review the Implementation of Farm Safety Net, Disaster, a... |
| Jun 12, 2026 | Committee Cliff Notes: Weekly Recap – Week of June 8, 2026 | Here’s a recap of key moments from House Republican committees during the week:
Agriculture
On Wednesday, June 10, the Committee on Agriculture held a full committee hearing called "Agricultural Perspectives on the Future of the USMCA.... |
| Jun 11, 2026 | Chairman Thompson Opening Statement at USMCA Hearing | WASHINGTON, DC — House Committee on Agriculture Chairman Glenn "GT" Thompson (PA-15) delivered the following opening statement at today's full committee hearing, "Agricultural Perspectives on the Future of USMCA."
Remark... |
| Jun 5, 2026 | Committee Cliff Notes: Weekly Recap – Week of June 1, 2026 | Here’s a recap of key moments from House Republican committees during the week:
Agriculture
On Thursday, June 4, the Committee on Agriculture held a full committee hearing "For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from the Honorable Broo... |
| Apr 18, 2026 | Committee Cliff Notes: Weekly Recap – Week of April 13, 2026 | Here’s a recap of key moments from House Republican committees during the week:
Agriculture
On Thursday, April 16, the Committee on Agriculture held a full committee hearing called "For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from the Honor... |
| Apr 13, 2026 | Committee Cliff Notes: Weekly Preview – Week of April 13, 2026 | Here’s what to watch for from House Republican committees during the week:
Agriculture
On Thursday, April 16, the Committee on Agriculture will hold a full committee hearing called "For the Purpose of Receiving Testimony from the Honor... |
| Mar 7, 2026 | Committee Cliff Notes: Weekly Recap – Week of March 2, 2026 | Here’s a recap of key moments from House Republican committees during the week:
Agriculture
On Tuesday, March 3, the Committee on Agriculture held a full committee markup on the following bill:
H.R. 7567, the Farm, Food, and National Securi... |
| Feb 27, 2026 | Guest article: America invents, Brazil and China deploy. Can the Farm Bill fix Washington’s ag biotech bottleneck? | Achal Shah is VP, strategic development, at Monterey Holdings’ biotech division. He has spent over a decade advising and building alongside investors, startups, and large corporations across global food and agriculture value chains.
The vie... |
| Sep 15, 2025 | Committee Cliff Notes: Weekly Preview – Week of September 15, 2025 | Here’s what to watch for from House Republican committees during the week:
Agriculture
On Tuesday, September 16, the Committee on Agriculture will hold a full committee hearing called "An Examination of the State of the Specialty Crop ... |
| Jul 14, 2025 | Committee Cliff Notes: Weekly Preview – Week of July 14, 2025 | Here’s what to watch for from House Republican committees during the week:
Agriculture
On Tuesday, July 15, the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry will hold a hearing called "Safeguarding U.S. Agriculture: The Role of the Na... |
| May 23, 2025 | The Looming Cuts to SNAP: A Recipe for Crisis | The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is on the chopping block. Proposed cuts threaten to slice benefits for millions of Americans. The GOP tax bill, touted as a “big, beautiful” solution, may instead serve as a recipe for di... |
| May 21, 2025 | Food industry fights for SNAP as program faces massive cuts | Organizations representing the food and grocery industries are urgently calling attention to the importance of SNAP as Congress considers massive spending cuts and some states begin to restrict purchases.
Last week, the House Agriculture Co... |
| May 21, 2025 | Food stamps face ‘biggest cut in the program’s history’ under GOP tax bill | As lawmakers look to enact a new legislative tax package, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, is poised to see big cuts that experts say could put benefits at risk.
With the proposed changes, more federal food assistance... |
| May 14, 2025 | Divisions emerge among House Republicans over how much to cut taxes and Medicaid in Trump’s bill | Roy said there is “a significant number of us who could not bless this product” in its current form. Related Articles
What to know about the Supreme Court arguments in the birthright citizenship case
Colorado would lose billions in Medicaid... |
| May 12, 2025 | House GOP reveals Trump’s tax breaks for tips, overtime and car loans in bill, but costs run high | Trump said when he returns to Washington, “we will work together on any and all outstanding issues, but there shouldn’t be many — The Bill is GREAT. We have no alternative, WE MUST WIN!”
But one key Republican, Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri,... |
| May 5, 2025 | Committee Cliff Notes: Weekly Preview – Week of May 5, 2025 | Here’s what to watch for from House Republican committees during the week:
Agriculture
On Tuesday, May 6, the Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development and the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Digital ... |
| Mar 24, 2025 | Committee Cliff Notes: Weekly Preview – Week of March 24, 2025 | Here’s what to watch for from House Republican committees during the week:
Agriculture
On Tuesday, March 25, the Committee on Agriculture will hold a full committee hearing called "The CFTC at 50: Examining the Past and Future of Commo... |
| Feb 28, 2025 | The Trump Agenda: A Tug-of-War in Washington | The political landscape in Washington is a battlefield. The air is thick with tension as the House GOP pushes forward with a plan that could reshape the American economy. The stakes are high, and the players are familiar. Donald Trump, the ... |
| Feb 26, 2025 | National Politics | What’s next for Trump agenda after House GOP approves tax breaks and slashed spending in budget | “We have a lot of hard work ahead of us,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said after the late Tuesday vote.Related Articles
National Politics | Social Security Administration could cut up to 50% of its workforce
National Politics | Hundreds of w... |
| Feb 14, 2025 | Committee Cliff Notes: Weekly Recap – Week of February 10, 2025 | Here’s a recap of key moments from House Republican committees during the week:
Agriculture
On Tuesday, February 11, the Committee on Agriculture held a full committee hearing called “Examining the Economic Crisis in Farm Country.” America’... |
| Dec 17, 2024 | Congress unveils funding deal with more than $100 billion in disaster aid | Net farm income is projected to decline 4.1% this year after falling 19.4% the year before from the record highs reached in 2022. Johnson indicated more farm aid could be delivered in the next Congress, saying “we can’t do all it right now.... |
| Jul 23, 2024 | 2024 Washington Policy Outlook - Updates on Federal Policy Issues | 2024 AAEA Annual Meeting
AAEA annual meeting track session
MILWAUKEE, July 23, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The 2024 AAEA Annual Meeting Track Session sponsored by the Extension Section, "Washington Policy Outlook" will focus on con... |
| Jul 26, 2023 | Congressional Committee to Vote on Crypto Regulation Bills This Week | John Lopez, Tech Times 26 July 2023, 12:07 pm
In a significant step towards providing regulatory clarity for the cryptocurrency industry, a key congressional committee is gearing up to vote on several bills to develop a regulatory framework... |
| Jun 1, 2023 | Ripple Executive Highlights Crucial Crypto Hearing | An upcoming Congressional hearing, scheduled for June 6, is creating a buzz in the cryptocurrency industry. Susan Friedman, a notable executive at Ripple, highlighted the significance of the hearing organized by the House Committee on Agric... |
| Aug 11, 2022 | Farm bill season arrives: What’s the outlook for 2023? | WASHINGTON — Over the course of the next year, lawmakers on the U.S. House and Senate Agriculture committees will draft a new federal farm bill that will shape food, farm, conservation and nutrition programs across the country for the next ... |
| Jun 3, 2022 | Agriculture Secretary Vilsack announces plan to transform the food system | At an event at Georgetown University last Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack detailed the USDA's new framework to make the food industry supply chain more resilient, level the playing field for smaller producers, make nutr... |
| Apr 29, 2022 | Meatpackers push back against lawmakers' price-fixing charges | Executives from some of the biggest beef processors — Tyson, JBS USA, Cargill and the National Beef Packing Company — rebuffed criticism from lawmakers this week that they manipulated the prices of their products.
At a Congressional hearing... |
| Feb 23, 2021 | Opening Statement of Acting Chairman Rostin Behnam before the Market Risk Advisory Committee | Opening Statement of Acting Chairman Rostin Behnam before the Market Risk Advisory Committee
February 23, 2021
Introduction
Good morning and welcome to the first virtual meeting of the CFTC's Market Risk Advisory Committee (MRAC or Committe... |
| Sep 16, 2020 | Provisions of Peterson's Renewable Fuel Standard Integrity Act Advance in the House of Representatives | (Washington, D.C.) - Today the House Committee on Energy and Commerce released the text of legislation containing the provisions of House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson's Renewable Fuel Standard Integrity Act. The House is e... |
| Aug 10, 2020 | House Ag Committee requests relief for ranchers, specialty crop farmers & seeks investigation of cattle industry amid pandemic | In two letters sent to US Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue last week, members of the House Agriculture Committee and the Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture and Research asked USDA to assist lamb and sheep producers ... |
| Jun 10, 2020 | Government Payouts To Make Up 36% Of Farm Income | The United States Department of Agriculture will be providing farmers with record funding for 2020.Getty |
| Dec 17, 2018 | When the Tide Goes Out: Big Questions for Crypto in 2019 | Gary Gensler is a former chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission under President Barack Obama, a Senior advisor to the MIT Media Lab Digital Currency Initiative and Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where h... |
| Jun 21, 2018 | Senate Passes Farm Bill with Incentives for Farmers to Build Soil Health, Sequester Carbon | The Senate Agriculture Committee passed its version of the 2018 Farm Bill this week including provisions aimed at promoting soil health.
These provisions include funding for a new USDA pilot project that will incentivize farmers in a dedica... |
| May 15, 2018 | Conaway bill ready to roll | The biggest piece of legislation proposed by U.S. Rep. Mike Conaway during his career as a lawmaker will hit the floor of the House of Representatives this week — a farm bill that includes stricter work requirements for the food-stamp progr... |
| Jul 7, 2016 | All eyes on the House as Senate passes GMO labeling bill: 'Within a few years, every GMO food will carry an on-package disclosure' | The federal GMO labeling bill in question (S. 764) – the result of months of negotiations between Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and ag committee chairman Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS) - would pre-empt and nullify all state-led GMO labeling ... |
| Mar 20, 2016 | Industry-in-Brief: GMO Labeling Bill Dies, Precision Ag Partnerships Signed, Senate Addresses Honeybee Decline, more | GMO Labeling Bill Dies in Senate Cloture Vote; General Mills to Begin Labeling GMO Ingredients
A GMO labeling bill designed to preempt states from enacting their own GMO labeling laws failed to secure the 60 votes necessary for cloture on C... |
| Feb 5, 2016 | Industry-in-Brief: Hellmann’s Introduces Eggless Mayo to Compete with Food Tech Startups, GM Developments, more | Hellmann’s Introduces Eggless Mayo to Compete with Food Tech
Major global food products manufacturer Unilever has introduced an eggless mayonnaise-like spread under its Hellmann’s brand called Carefully Crafted Dressing & Sandwich Sprea... |
| Oct 29, 2015 | Fundings-in-Brief: Syngenta Sells Triticale Business to PE-backed Northern Seed, Origine Raises $10.3m, more | Welcome to another week of Fundings in Brief with AgFunderNews!
With Halloween right around the corner, images of bats are adorning porches and classrooms around the nation, but did you know bats may also be worth billions to the agricultur... |
| Oct 8, 2015 | Impossible Foods’ $108m Series D, ADM M&A, Brazilian Fertilizer PE Deal, Cannabis Fundings and more | Welcome to another edition of AgFunderNews’ weekly roundup of funding and industry news from across the globe. This was a dynamic week of fundings, mergers & acquisitions, and food and agriculture policy, but what’s got most people talk... |
| Aug 29, 2014 | Gallery: Chamber of Digital Commerce Holds Bitcoin Education Day in DC | capitol hill washington
The Chamber of Digital Commerce (CDC) held Congressional Bitcoin Education Day today, a Washington, DC-based event aimed at fostering awareness of bitcoin and its related technology among Congressional staff members ... |
| Feb 7, 2014 | Farm bill signed into law | The 2014 farm bill, which Obama signed into law quickly after it passed the Senate and House with bipartisan support, includes an expansion in federal crop insurance, preservation of some important environmental programs and provisions des... |
| Dec 8, 2011 | Corzine tries to distance himself from MF Global’s downfall | WASHINGTON — Summoned by Congress, Jon Corzine embraced a bold strategy Thursday to distance himself from MF Global’s fall and $1.2 billion in missing clients’ money:
Answer each question. Be courteous. And don’t huddle with your lawyer bef... |
| Congress extends SNAP benefits, provides for additional food assistance | Congress approved several major food assistance initiatives in the latest Covid-19 relief package passed Wednesday by the House at a time when just over 1 in 10 Americans are going hungry.
About 10% of Americans, or 22.5 million people, rep... |
| National Auto Dealer Assoc. says it’s all in on EVs. Will dealers step in line? | The National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) has said they’re “all-in” on electric cars, but $30,000 price hikes and generalized dealer shenanigans about reservations in the face of ongoing inventory concerns have led some automakers ... |