No matter who controls Congress, economy and inflation top the issues on many voters minds.
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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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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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Government funding runs out Feb. 18. Appropriators are hoping for a year-long funding deal as part of an omnibus spending package. Football translation: punt!
Biden’s State of the Union address is set for March 1.
The Biden administration wants to pass legislation to combat China’s rise in the high-tech space in February or March.
Remember the Build Back Better Act? It’s on life support right now, but Senate Democrats want to revive it ahead of the midterms. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) wants to scrap the agreement and start from scratch.
A growing number of Republican and Democratic senators have been working with Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) to rework the Electoral Count Act and overhaul other election-related laws. After Senate Democrats’ broad-based voting reform push fell flat, the White House seems eager and willing to get something done. And Republicans are playing ball, for the time being.
The Pentagon has put 8,500 U.S. troops on alert that they might be shipping out to Eastern Europe as the Russians continue to threaten to invade Ukraine. Both the House and Senate will get classified briefings as soon as next week, and lawmakers are getting eager to craft a sanctions package to punish Moscow.
And Now add to the list the Supreme Court appointment and nomination process.
Any longtime observer – doesn’t matter Democrat or Republican - of Congress quickly concludes that this Congress is not very good when it comes to meeting legislative deadlines. Like really bad. It’s both parties that are failing to get their jobs done. And both parties are guilty of allowing institutional weaknesses to fester that makes it quite difficult to legislate.
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