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FDA boost food safety, despite austerity

The trade promotion bill cleared its last major hurdle as the Senate agreed, xx-xx, to advance the legislation to a final congressional vote. In a key victory for President Obama, 13 Democrats joined Republicans in voting for cloture on the Trade Promotion Authority bi

The fast-track trade bill got a key boost with a top Senate Democrats announcement that he would support advancing the measure to a final congressional vote. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has set a cloture vote on the Trade Promotion Authority

Senate Republicans will look to send the fast-track trade bill to President Obama this week, while the House debates a spending measure that would block a wide array of environmental regulations.

A bill that would clear the way for President Obama to wrap up a 12-nation Pacific Rim trade deal could be headed to his desk by the end of next week after bipartisan talks broke a House impasse. The House approved the Trade Promotion Authority bill, 208-18, on Thursday followi

The House approved a fast-track trade bill, 218-208, breaking a week-long impasse.

The House is set to break an impasse over fast-track trade bill as GOP congressional leaders committed to President Obama to separately seek approval of an extension of Trade Adjustment Assistance programs.The plan involves splitting a bill that included both the TAA extension and the fast-track Tr

The House Agriculture Committee advanced bills that would allow new futures contracts for foreign-produced cotton and accelerate approvals for thinning trees on federal lands.

House appropriators are seeking to ensure the Obama administration doesn?t use environmental factors in writing the federal dietary guidelines for meat consumption. A draft fiscal 2016 appropriations bill for the Agriculture Department and Food and Drug Administration includes a provision that woul

Trade Promotion Authority stalled, what next?