Articles by Philip Brasher

House Agriculture Chairman Mike Conaway was negotiating with congressional GOP leaders on a deal to avert a $3 billion cut to crop insurers contained a two-year budget agreement.

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The Export-Import Bank appears to be coming back to life. The House voted 313-118 Tuesday to reauthorize the bank, handing a victory to agricultural equipment makers and other companies whose export financing has been in limbo since Ex-Im@s authority lapsed July 1.

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Crop insurance was targeted for a cut in a sweeping budget deal that the White House and congressional Republican leaders were finishing negotiations on Monday night.

House Republican leaders are scrambling this week to avert a snarl in rail traffic - and a crisis over the federal debt limit - even as Paul Ryan prepares to take over as speaker and try to unite the fractious GOP caucus.

After winning over hard-line conservatives, Paul Ryan made it official that heðs running for House speaker. Ryan released a statement to colleagues Thursday saying that he is ðready and able to be our speaker.ð

Federal regulators defended the safety of biotech foods as senators prepared laid the groundwork for moving a compromise bill to block states from requiring labels on GMO products. The ranking Democrat on the Senate Agriculture Committee, Debbie Stabenow, who is playing a lea

Paul Ryan assured House conservatives that if he becomes speaker he wouldnÐt allow an immigration reform bill to move unless a majority of Republicans support it.

Republicans appear to have found their new speaker. In a closed-door meeting, House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan agreed to run for the job provided the caucus is united behind him, and he said heðll give his colleagues until the end of the week to do that.