Articles by Philip Brasher

Republicans are setting the stage for another fight over the Obama administrationPs Pwaters of the United StatesP (WOTUS) rule during budget negotiations with the White House later this year.

House Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop says a final energy bill will have to include provisions to address the drought in California and other Western states. The House-passed legislation (S. 2012) includes provisions sponsored by Rep. David Valadao, R-Calif

Debbie Stabenow, Pat Roberts, John Hoeven, GMO labeling law, North Dakota, Corporate Farm Ban, WOTUS, House Appropriations Committee, Senate Appropriations Committee, Interior-Environment bill, Farm Credit Council, Secretary Tom Vilsack

The food and agriculture industry�s hopes for blocking Vermont�s first-in-the-nation GMO labeling requirements are hanging on Senate negotiations that suddenly became serious late last week.

Leaders of the Senate Agriculture Committee said they were making �good progress� toward an agreement on labeling biotech foods but still had several issues to resolve. Aides to the committee met until 10:30 p.m. Thursday and continue

There are signs of progress in the search for a congressional agreement on biotech labeling. Senate Agriculture Chairman Pat Roberts, ranking Democrat Debbie Stabenow and their aides met off the Senate floor yesterday to work through differences over a bill that would preempt state biotech

Energy-Water Spending Bill, Chairman Pete Sessions, USDA, FDA, House Appropriations Committee, Chairman Mike Conaway, SNAP, Hillary Clinton, Patty Judge, Chuck Grassley, Steve King, Narendra Modi, Marconi Gibson, Michelle Obama

The clock is fast running out on the Senate to stop Vermont€s GMO labeling law from taking effect July 1. The chairman and ranking Democrat on the Senate Agriculture Committee both tell Agri-Pulse they want to get an agreement, but some of the same issues that were in play last mo

Three veterans of agriculture and food policy whom a President Hillary Clinton might want to tap for advice see no justification for mandatory GMO labeling, and they see no need for reorganizing the federal regulatory agencies.

President Obama last year proposed to create a single food-safety agency that would combine inspection programs at USDA and FDA, an idea that had long been pushed by several senior Democratic lawmakers, including Senate Minority Whip Richard Durbin of Illinois and House appropriator Ro