Sentences with phrase «agriculture committee»

(Washington, DC) The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) issued the following statement from Pamela G. Bailey, president and CEO, on the bipartisan passage today by the Senate Agriculture Committee of legislation to set a uniform national food labeling standard for genetically engineered ingredients.

(Washington, D.C.) The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) issued the following statement from Pamela G. Bailey, president and CEO, regarding the U.S. House Agriculture Committee hearing on the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans:

Reported out of Agriculture Committee in House with 1 Favorable, 6 on it's merits.

She has also testified before the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee on the need for federal nutrition standards for foods sold outside of the federal meal program in all schools.

«The International Dairy Foods Association applauds House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway, R - Texas, for including key provisions for dairy in the chairman's 2018 Farm Bill that was released today.

Assembly Agriculture Committee Chair Bill Magee said, «Research in hemp, led by the collaboration of Morrisville State College, JD Farms, and NY Agriculture and Markets, has opened the door for an agricultural opportunity in New York that has a diverse and varied market potential.

WASHINGTON, DC — The Grocery Manufacturers Association praised the House Agriculture Committee for holding a hearing today examining the costs and impacts of mandatory biotechnology labeling laws.

Kentucky's state Senate Agriculture Committee voted unanimously on Monday to approve legislation that could pave the way for the creation of a legal hemp industry in the state, following testimony from Sen. Rand Paul (R - Ky.)

Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Senator Patty Ritchie, «The continued success of New York agriculture depends on connecting our state's hardworking farmers with new opportunities.

This entry was posted on Friday, March 30th, 2012 at 4:36 pm tagged as Oklahoma Agriculture Committee, Puppy Mill Legislation and is filed under OkcPetsOnline.

The brokerages and commodities companies lobbied the House Agriculture Committee after they failed to gain traction with the CFTC.

The food industry has made significant strides in cutting food waste and is taking steps to reduce consumer confusion around product date labeling, an expert from the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) told the House Agriculture Committee today.

, a member of the House Agriculture Committee who attended the meeting, posted a tweet thanking the president for committing to addressing «Canada and their very unfair Class 7 dairy program» during the discussion.

The top Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee said every GOP senator is concerned about the direction President Donald Trump is taking on trade, from slapping tariffs on solar panels to his threats to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Immediately prior to joining Delta Strategy Group, Kevin served Senate Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Thad Cochran as special counsel and policy advisor for futures and derivatives where he had responsibility for the confirmation of Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Commissioner Nominees and CFTC reauthorization legislation.

In 1988 Bioagricoop was entrusted by Emilia Romagna Agriculture Committee with the study of organic farming in the region.

The Senate Agriculture Committee came up with a much more reasonable child nutrition bill earlier this year, so of course it remains to be seen how the CNR will play out in Congress.

In January, the Senate Agriculture Committee managed to hammer out a bipartisan agreement that seemed to satisfy the major stakeholders, and it looked like the school food fight was coming to an end.

The Senate Agriculture Committee approved Tuesday legislation to prohibit owning, breeding, or training dogs for the purpose of fighting.

Tax evasion and other illicit activities are going on to a great extent in cryprocurrencies, CFTC Chair Christopher Giancarlo told a Senate Agriculture Committee meeting today.

In a letter to Congress, Bloomberg took aim particularly at provisions backed by Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Blanche Lincoln (D - Ark.)

Ritchie said she agreed to become deputy vice chairwoman of the Health Committee but did not ask for extra money or know she would receive a higher stipend than she would from serving as agriculture committee chairwoman.

The legislation won the backing of the Senate Agriculture Committee last week.

House Agriculture Committee leaders welcomed new members and announced subcommittee assignments in early February.

Bi-Partisan Congressional Leaders and Former CIA Director Testify in Favor of SB 50 Before Kentucky Senate Agriculture Committee Support for Kentucky Industrial Hemp Cultivation Program Gains Momentum at State and Federal Levels and Includes Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell

The notice released by the Changchun agriculture committee on April 28 said that increasing soybean planting areas «is the primary political mission of agricultural production.»

As the House and Senate Agriculture committees work to draft the 2018 farm bill, OFA now has its farm bill priorities clearly outlined and directed by their farm membership.

On April 12, 2018, the House Agriculture Committee released their draft farm bill.

The Organic Trade Association is pleased that the House Agriculture Committee recognized the strong growth in organic and the opportunities that organic provides for the food and farm economy.

European Parliament Agriculture Committee MEPs are making their final preparations ahead of a vote on proposed Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform amendments — including the adoption of supply management measures.

The California Assembly Agriculture Committee postponed a hearing on a bill concerning the whey value in Class 4b milk price formulas until May 1.

Patrick Delaney, former communications manager at the United Fresh Produce Association, is Democratic communications director for the House Agriculture Committee Minority.

For those of you following the 2015 Child Nutrition Reauthorization, we learned yesterday that the Senate Agriculture Committee mark - up is scheduled for Wednesday, January 20th at 10:00 am EST..

The decision to take funding away from food stamps was made after Republicans on the Senate Agriculture Committee opposed initial efforts to offset the costs of the legislation by cutting conservation subsidies to farmers.

WASHINGTON — The House Agriculture Committee passed the farm bill with the support of Congressmen Christopher Gibson (R - 19) and Sean Patrick Maloney (D - 18).

At 1 p.m., Chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee Patty Ritchie and her GOP colleagues will hold a news conference on the future of New York's family farms, Room 124, state Capitol, Albany.

«We can take our piece of America, our communities, our towns and farms and make them better than they ever have been,» she said, promising she would demand to be on the House agriculture committee if elected.

The last Democrat to hold the seat, Clayton Wheeler, became chairman of the State Senate agriculture committee when the previous chairman, Dutchess County's Franklin Roosevelt, resigned to become assistant secretary of the navy in 1913.

«The factor near the bottom of the scientific community's list seems to be the factor highest on the list of activist groups,» said Representative Rodney Davis (R — IL), who chairs a House Agriculture Committee subpanel, at a 13 May hearing.

Last month, the House Agriculture Committee proposed a cut of $ 33 billion.

Contact state Senator Joe Hune (R - Hamburg Township), Chair, Senate Agriculture Committee Contact state Representative Hugh Crawford (R - Novi), Chair, House Regulatory Reform Committee Then, contact your state Senator and Representative, and tell them that Michigan can not become a haven for puppy mills.

Less than two weeks after the «Community Cat Act» received unanimous approval from Florida's House Agriculture and Natural Resources Subcommittee, the bill (SB 1320) is scheduled to be heard and voted on by the Senate's Agriculture Committee Monday afternoon.

Animal welfare experts were heartened when Parliament decided to conduct hearings into the proposed transportation regulations before the House of Commons Agriculture Committee in April.

See this 2013 letter written by Rebecca Mosshart to the state of Kansas Agriculture Committee.

It speaks volumes that Ohio state Rep. Dave Hall, Chair of the Ohio House of Representatives Agriculture Committee and whose district includes Holmes County, home to hundreds of puppy mills, described this as a bill he could support.

On January 12, 2008, in order to undermine efforts to create minimum standards for unlicensed dog breeding facilities in Oklahoma, AKC Field Inspector Stacy Mason testified to false information before the Oklahoma house agriculture committee interim session hearing, misleading the committee into believing that USDA regulations were difficult to comply with.