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U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk spent over three hours in a Senate Finance Committee hearing on trade deflecting senators' demands to fast track free trade agreements with Korea, Colombia and Panama as a single package.

Metatags: The House Agriculture Committee voiced strong bipartisan opposition to Environmental Protection Agency regulations affecting agriculture, telling EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson that 'farmers fear EPA.'

The House Energy & Commerce Committee's Energy & Power Subcommittee favorably reported a bill to restrict EPA's authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions: HR 910, the Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011.

U.S. poultry and livestock farmers provide more than just meat, milk, eggs and other food. They also produce jobs, generate property tax revenues and contribute to household incomes.

House Agriculture Committee, vote, EPA, Clean Water Act, pesticides, Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, Frank Lucas, Collin Peterson

U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today released the below statement, following the announcement of staff selections for the Committee.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack brushed off Republican demands that President Obama immediately forward all three pending free trade agreements (FTA) with South Korea, Colombia and Panama to Capitol Hill for approval.

For the Washington week ahead, the federal budget, tax policy, the EPA, climate change and gas prices all will be actively debated.

Some of the nation’s largest commodity organizations went on the record this weekend as being in full support of reducing the nation’s deficit and debt, but called for all entitlement and discretionary spending to be on the line—not just agriculture.

Delegates attending the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) annual policy session on Saturday did not approve any major farm program changes, but signalled that they are willing to consider new options on direct, fixed payments and the ethanol tax credit.