Weekly Food and Agriculture Update – 9.17
September 17, 2024 Contents What We’re Watching Congress Appropriations With only 13 days until current government funding expires, Congress remains at an impasse on a fiscal year 2025 spending agreement. Last week, a Continuing Resolution (CR) that would extend government funding until March 2025 was pulled from a House floor vote due to a lack […]
Weekly Food and Agriculture Update – 9.10
September 10, 2024 Contents What We’re Watching Congress Appropriations Congress returns this week following a month-long recess. Their main priority will be keeping the government funded, which currently expires on September 30, as well as passage of other expiring legislation. On Friday afternoon, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) unveiled a Continuing Resolution package which would extend current levels […]
Weekly Food and Agriculture Update – 7.23
July 23, 2024 Contents What We’re Watching Congress Appropriations On Monday night, the House Rules Committee met to consider the Energy and Water and Interior and Environment Appropriations bills for FY2025. The official rule has been posted here, and the House will debate and vote on the bills this afternoon. Members also testified on the Ag-FDA […]
Weekly Food and Agriculture Update – 7.9
July 9, 2024 Contents The TAG newsletter will pause for recess next week. We will resume on July 23. What We’re Watching Congress Appropriations Congress returns this week after the Fourth of July recess, heading straight into appropriations markups and hearings. This week, the House will markup up the remaining six appropriations bills through the […]
Weekly Food and Agriculture Update – 6.25
June 25, 2024 Contents TAG will be pausing our newsletter next week due to the Fourth of July recess. We will resume on July 9. What We’re Watching Congress Farm Bill The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released their 10-year estimates for farm programs. While this is unlikely to have a major impact on farm bill discussions and […]
Weekly Food and Agriculture Update – 6.18
June 18, 2024 Contents What We’re Watching Congress Appropriations Last week, the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee released their spending bill for Fiscal Year 2025, and then successfully passed it out of the Subcommittee the following night. The bill provides $25.9 billion in total funding, with $22 billion for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and $6.75 billion […]
Weekly Food and Agriculture Update – 6.11
June 11, 2024 Contents What We’re Watching Congress Appropriations The House Appropriations Subcommittees are continuing to markup their respective appropriations legislation for Fiscal Year 2025 this week. The Agriculture-FDA Appropriations Subcommittee will hold their subcommittee markup on Tuesday, June 11 at 6:00 PM. The bill allocates $25.873 billion in discretionary funding, which is a 1.35% […]
Weekly Food and Agriculture Update – 6.4
June 4, 2024 Contents What We’re Watching Congress Farm Bill Congress was in recess last week and returns this week for legislative business. Following the House Agriculture Committee farm bill markup, it is anticipated that Senate Agriculture Committee Ranking Member John Boozman (R-AR) could release his farm bill priorities in the coming weeks. Members of […]
Weekly Food and Agriculture Update – 5.28
May 28, 2024 Contents What We’re Watching Congress Farm Bill The Farm Bill process took a big step forward last week when the House Agriculture Committee held its Farm Bill markup during a marathon session, lasting almost thirteen hours. Democrats offered three primary amendments opposing changes to the Commodity Credit Corporation, future updates of the Thrifty Food […]
Weekly Food and Agriculture Update – 5.21
May 21, 2024 Contents What We’re Watching Congress Farm Bill The House Agriculture Committee released farm bill draft discussion text on Friday, May 17, ahead of the Committee markup, which is scheduled for Thursday, May 23. Upon release of the House draft discussion text, Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Stabenow responded noting that she and House Ag Chairman GT Thompson […]
