Time is running out for the union representing workers at West Coast ports and their employers to negotiate new labor contracts by the time they expire today and lawmakers on Capitol Hill are urging against work stoppages if talks are unsuccessful.
Social media is filled with people – influencers - trying to sell you products and services. Our political system is filled with people – lobbyists – trying to sell their ideas and positions. I thought this article below from the American Farm Bureau says it all about who really has the power to influence our elected officials.
The Agriculture Department would get $560 million more for rural broadband expansion, plus increases for research, food aid and combating animal and plant diseases, under a House spending bill for fiscal 2023.
The Food and Drug Administration, which also would be funded through the bill, would get $3.6 billion, an increase of $341 million over FY22, including $77 million more for food safety.
President Joe Biden and U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio) are the 2022 recipients of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s (ARTBA) highest honor—the “ARTBA Award.” The historic infrastructure bill signed into law last year was the most significant legislation approved in this Congress to date.
Caterpillar Inc. announced Tuesday the company will move its headquarters from the Chicago suburb of Deerfield, Illinois, to suburban Dallas, Texas. The move will affect 230 jobs.
House Republicans are relying on elimination of the Conservation Stewardship Program and tightened eligibility rules and work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to fund other priorities in the new farm bill, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
As mentioned last week, the puzzle pieces to develop a new farm bill funding reauthorization are being put in place by Congress and industry groups. This past week, the American Soybean Association's 2023 farm bill priorities were announced with a focus on safety net language as well as conservation, trade, energy and a handful of other aspects of the legislation.
The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) continues to provide data on what is being seen around the country: construction spending is down while the workforce challenges remain.
John Drake, the new Executive Director of the Americans for Transportation Mobility (ATM) Coalition and Vice President for Transportation, Infrastructure and Supply Chain Policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is thinking about tomorrow.
The Biden administration is looking to farmers to help alleviate global food shortfalls by planting winter wheat this fall on ground that’s coming out of the Conservation Reserve Program, but much of the acreage lies in states that are suffering from prolonged drought.