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Sunday, September 24, 2023
A key scheme involved in the bribery case against Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., angered the Agriculture Department but resulted in associates of the couple getting a lucrative monopoly on halal certification for U.S. beef exports to Egypt.
The top Republican on the Senate Ag Committee says Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack’s commitment to provide $1.4 billion for trade promotion assistance from the Commodity Credit Corporation should make a “big difference” for U.S. farmers.
House Republicans remain unable to agree on a continuing resolution to keep the government funded in October. Meanwhile, senators left town Thursday still unable to get agreement on bringing up a three-bill spending package that includes its version of the USDA-FDA bill.
Agricultural employers can now apply for a new competitive grant program to help recruit H-2A workers and improve working conditions as part of a new pilot program launched by USDA.
EPA’s Science Advisory Board is moving toward softening language in a draft commentary that questioned the value of corn ethanol in combating climate change.
Witnesses at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on Thursday called on Congress to provide more funding to bolster a broadband affordability program that is set to run out of money next year.
The Senate Agriculture Committee is wading into the controversy around foreign ownership of U.S. cropland. A long-expected hearing on the issue is scheduled for next Wednesday.
The U.S. pork industry wants to see a return of the Generalized System of Preferences trade program, which expired in 2020, seeing it as key to gaining new access to markets in countries like Thailand and the Philippines.
The White House on Wednesday announced the creation of the American Climate Corps to undertake conservation, energy and wildland fire work across the country.
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