Items Tagged with 'Deb Haaland'

Kamala Harris accepted the Democratic Party nomination for president of the United States Thursday, telling a raucous crowd at Chicago’s United Center that she wants to rebuild the country’s middle class by creating an “opportunity economy.”

There are a lot of new details now about the farm bill that Republicans plan to push through the House Agriculture Committee next week. Committee Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Pa., on Friday afternoon released a 38-page section-by-section summary on his draft and is expected to release more detail later this week.

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn Thompson works to build the case this week for a farm bill that so far lacks any Democratic support ahead of the panel’s scheduled votes May 23.

The Bureau of Land Management has finalized a rule that will allow conservation leases on its land by giving land protection and restoration equal footing with grazing, energy development and other long-standing uses of the 245 million acres the agency controls.

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai faces questioning on both sides of Capitol Hill this week amid a growing ag trade deficit that has fueled Republican attacks ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Wednesday defended a proposed Bureau of Land Management rule that gives conservation uses of the land it manages “equal footing” with grazing, energy production, mining, and recreation.