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Thursday, March 30, 2023
Georgia’s Sanford Bishop and Virginia’s Abigail Spanberger were among Democrats surviving close races Tuesday as Republicans failed to knock off some top targets in their quest to take over the House.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the United States isn’t being tough enough when it comes to China. While President Joe Biden has maintained the Trump administration’s tariffs on China, Pompeo says more has to be done to curb China’s unfair trade practices and theft of intellectual property.
Nearly a year after the Senate overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan bill aimed at jump-starting ag climate markets, the bill remains mired in the House Agriculture Committee, raising the possibility the legislation could be punted to the farm bill debate in the next Congress.
Democrats push a bill though the House Agriculture Committee that would create a special investigator's office at USDA to probe allegations of unfair marketing practices in the meat and poultry industry.
House Republicans and Democrats on Thursday sparred over USDA nutrition programs at a hearing on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, highlighting partisan divides over funding for food assistance in the 2023 farm bill.
Lawmakers are laying the groundwork to recharge the Rural Energy for America Program, a USDA initiative to bankroll clean and renewable energy from rural areas and farms.
New congressional maps that states have finalized based on the 2020 census will leave at least six members of the House Agriculture Committee facing tough re-election races this fall.
Supporters of the Growing Climate Solutions Act are signing up new co-sponsors for the Senate-passed legislation in hopes of getting the House to take up the bill.
