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The U.S. House should be the final stop this week for a historic funding package aimed at slashing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

The Democratic-controlled Senate on Sunday passed an historic package of financial incentives for cutting U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, including a dramatic increase in farm bill conservation programs aimed at spurring farmers to adopt climate-related farming practices.

A revised climate funding package Democrats are pushing through the Senate this weekend scraps a debt relief program for minority farmers that was blocked by the courts and replaces it with new programs earmarked for “distressed” USDA borrowers as well as farmers the department has discriminated against.

The climate funding package that Senate Democrats expect to pass this weekend will include $4 billion in drought-related funding for the Bureau of Reclamation.

The climate funding package that Senate Democrats have agreed on should make it easier to pass the next farm bill while helping consumers and producers deal with climate change, says a Democrat on the Senate Agriculture Committee, Tina Smith of Minnesota.

Lawmakers are getting the ball rolling on another round of disaster assistance, even as much of the West and Plains are baking in drought.

The Congressional Budget Office has released its cost estimates for Democrats’ spending package known as the Inflation Reduction Act.

Jackie Walorski, an Indiana Republican in her fifth term in the House, died Wednesday following a car crash that took the lives of three other people.

Leading farm groups are making another appeal to senators ahead of their August recess to reach agreement on reforms to the H-2A visa program for farmworkers.