The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) provided comments to the Environmental Protection Agency in a letter regarding proposed changes to certain provisions of the Clean Water Act.
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Category: Legislative Updates
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The Senate's revived reconciliation deal would keep agricultural conservation, forestry and renewable fuels in the Democrats’ formula for fighting climate change.
The overall budget package, which is billed as an inflation fighter, booster of energy production and a down payment to fund climate-smart policies, could face a test as soon as Wednesday with a vote on a motion to proceed. If the motion is agreed to, a series of votes on amendments would follow Thursday.
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Major U.S. agricultural production groups are pulling together their requests for the next farm bill — the massive legislation that Congress rewrites every five years to set farm and food policy — with crop insurance and disaster assistance on the top of their lists.
A panel of executives from farm groups detailed some of their concerns and requests for the next farm bill Tuesday at the Minnesota FarmFest, an agribusiness fair organized by the American Farm Bureau.
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The farm bill includes both mandatory and discretionary spending. Congress can change discretionary spending in the annual spending bills.
But most farm bill programs are mandatory spending, including crop subsidies, farm bill conservation programs and some forms of crop insurance. For those programs, the farm bill will set the funding structure for the next five years.
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Young federal employees are leaving the federal government at a rapid rate, with nearly 9% of those under 30 quitting in fiscal 2021. Initial reaction may be – it’s about time – but the reality is someone needs to run and manage these programs so many people depend on.
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Like the rest of the country, Washington DC is hot. The Congressional calendar is short as the August break and fiscal year loom in the not-too-distant future. Here is what Congress faces in the next few weeks.
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Congress continues to take input on changes to the next farm bill which will be drafted next year. Below are some comments from Rita Hite, president and CEO of the American Forest Foundation, on changes her organization would like to see in farm, specially forest, programs.
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No surprise to anyone buying anything but the Associated General Contractors summed up some of the price increases facing the industry in a recent report.
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The July 4th Recess traditionally gives Congress and chance to take a short break before the mad dash to August’s longer break and the end of the fiscal year in September. Here is what is on their plate as the November elections near.
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Dave Bauer, president and CEO, American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) recently had this to say about a proposed gas tax holiday -
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