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Scott Pruitt, Ed Markey, John Barrasso, animal care standards, Sonny Perdue, Debbie Stabenow, Abel Maldonado, Scott Graves, Mike Conaway, Andy Puzder, Lamar Alexander, Seven Hills Foods, USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, APHIS

President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office on Friday, the Senate will vet his nominees to run the EPA and other departments important to agriculture.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack left office Friday, one week ahead of President Obama. A spokesman for President-elect Donald Trump said a nominee to succeed Vilsack would be named some time soon.

Wilbur Ross, Donald Trump, Pat Roberts, Peter Navarro, Jason Grenblatt, Robert Lighthizer, Good and Drug Administration, Bayer CropScience, CropLife America, Friends of the Earth, CFTC, Debbie Stabenow, Mike Conaway, USDA report

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Donald Trump, Abel Maldonado, Monsanto, Bayer, Hugh Grant, Werner Baumann, Bruce Rastetter, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, CFTC, Mike Conaway, Dodd-Frank, Roger Marshall, Tim Huelskamp, Rex Tillerson, Enrique Pena Nieto

President-elect Donald Trump has made clear he plans to make good on his campaign promises to undo major parts of President ObamaÐs regulatory agenda. But that could be heavy lifting for the executive branch, requiring a time-consuming notice-and-comment process that c

A change in House budgetary rules could make it easier for states or local governments to gain control of federal lands. The new rule, pushed by Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop, would mean that transfers of federal lands to local and state governments would no longer require a sp

President-elect Donald TrumpÐs search for an agriculture secretary drags on. His inauguration is just nine days away and there has been mostly silence from the Trump transition on the search process over the past week. Speculation abounded last week that former Georgia Gov. So