Sentences with phrase «over the farm bill»

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Over 7,000 Iowans like Bill Nosbisch are employed doing jobs like maintaining wind turbines, monitoring wind - farm systems, and making wind blades.

I haven't followed the furor over Bill 6 (OH&S, WCB, for farm workers) closely but it seems to have gone off the rails.

The House — Senate conference committee about the national farm bill is underway, and the most contentious issue is whether to cut the Food Stamps program by up to $ 40 billion over ten years.

House speaker Nancy Pelosi intends to bring the Waxman - Markey bill to a vote on Friday over the objections of farm - and coal - state Democrats and almost all Republicans, figuring that she has the votes to pass it.

If there were any successes in the debate over the 2007 farm bill, they came in the development of what Imhoff calls literacy.

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Congress has about 50/50 chance of passing farm bill in 2013 The chances of the U.S. Congress passing a five - year farm bill by year's end are a little better than 50/50 given the gridlock over food stamps for the poor, a top farm policy expert said on Monday...

It might seem strange to most Americans, but the building congressional debate over the Bush administration's proposed 2007 farm bill involves something unusual: actual food.

With the debate over the 2012 Farm Bill currently underway in the Senate, most of the media's attention has been focused on how direct payments — subsidies doled out regardless of actual farming — are being replaced with crop insurance, in a classic shell game that Big Ag's powerful lobby is likely to pull off.

The bill looks to address issues such as worker protections, overtime pay, public health protection and employer contributions to workers» compensation and unemployment funds and would afford greater rights for over 100,000 migrant farm workers throughout New York State, which boasts a powerful agricultural industry.

Also, with electorate nearly equally split over a majority of important issues, the size of the body matters slightly less, but a larger body is more likely to allow passing more laws since you can always trade votes between blocks on random laws that a given block cares less about (e.g. I'll vote for your farm bill if you vote for my factory bill).

After a failure to reach an agreement over an immigration bill, 30 Republicans joined all the chamber's Democrats to vote down the law 198 - 213 in what Politico called «a huge setback to the farm lobby and House Speaker Paul Ryan's welfare reform agenda.»

Espada is reportedly pushing for a joint statement with Sampson on the farm workers bill — and perhaps also on a package of housing bills that housing advocates dislike because they view them as too pro-landlord — but some people around the Brooklyn lawmaker worry it will look too much like he's (yet again) getting worked over by the wily majority leader and are balking.

The 2014 Farm Bill, signed by President Barack Obama in February, authorizes $ 1.3 billion in spending over five years to help farmers adopt conservation practices in regions of the country facing significant environmental challenges.

Senate Minority Leader Charles SchumerCharles (Chuck) Ellis SchumerSchumer: GOP efforts to identify FBI informant «close to crossing a legal line» Patients deserve the «right to try» How the embassy move widens the partisan divide over Israel MORE (D - N.Y.) has called on Senate Democrats to be on the floor at 9:30 Wednesday morning to hear what, if anything, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress Parkland father calls out Trump, McConnell, Ryan after Santa Fe shooting Overnight Finance: House rejects farm bill in conservative revolt NAFTA deal remains elusive as talks drag on Dodd - Frank rollback set for House vote MORE (R - Ky.)

Republicans are trying to pass a farm bill that would take food assistance away from over 2 million people, mere months after handing the wealthy and corporations trillions of dollars in tax cuts.

It's a Republican sponsored bill that was broken away from the Farm Bill over the sumbill that was broken away from the Farm Bill over the sumBill over the summer.

On Tuesday, Florida GOP Reps. Carlos CurbeloCarlos Luis CurbeloAnti - Maduro Venezuelans not unlike anti-Castro Cubans of yore Farm bill revolt could fuel Dreamer push Three Republicans join climate change caucus MORE and Ileana Ros - LehtinenIleana Carmen Ros - LehtinenOvernight Defense: Over 500 amendments proposed for defense bill Measures address transgender troops, Yemen war Trump taps acting VA chief as permanent secretary Defense bill amendment would protect open transgender military service Tensions on immigration erupt in the House GOP MORE called on Pruitt to resign or be fired.

But its draft of the Farm Bill, which sets food and agricultural policy and funding, is less generous: The $ 348 million of research appropriated over 5 years by the 2008 Farm Bill would be cut to $ 200 million in the new legislation.

What follows is an Old Testament story that ends the drifters heavenly days on the farm, as the wheat - fields are taken over by a plague of locusts, a fire rampages through the prairie and a fight until death between the suspicious farmer and the hot - tempered Bill occurs after the hustler was observed touching the farmer's wife in not such a brotherly way.

If Abby marries him and sticks out the relationship for that period of time, she and Bill can take over the farm when the farmer croaks.

Before the summer recess, there were over 100 amendments that were offered for the puppy mill bill, H.B. 2525, a comprehensive overhaul of the Dog Law as applied to commercial dog breeders,  as breeders, the state farm bureau and the Pennsylvania Veterinarian Medical Association worked to defeat it.Â

2005 The Last Generation, curated by Max Henry, Apex Art, New York, NY, USA; traveling to Jousse Entreprise, Paris, France Superstars: From Warhol to Madonna, Kunstforum / Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria The Painted World, P.S. 1 Center for Contemporary Art, Long Island City, New York, USA The Disasters of War: From Goya to Golub, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Connecticut, USA Post No Bills, curated by Matthew Higgs, White Columns, New York, USA Helga's Art Collection, Museo Extremeno e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo, Badajoz, Spain The Art of Aggression: Iraqi Stories and Other Tales, curated by Jean Cruthchfield and Robert Hobbs, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Vancouver, Canada 2004 Editions Fawbush: A Selection, Sandra Gehring Gallery, New York, USA Last one on is a soft Jimmy, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA Bill Adams, Wayne Gonzales, Cameron Martin: Paintings, KS Art, New York, NY Word of Mouth, A Selection: Part 1, Dinter Fine Art, New York, USA La Lettre Volée, F.R.A.C. Franche - Comté Musée des Beaux - Arts de Dole, France The Freedom Salon, Deitch Projects, New York, USA Bush League, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, New York, USA Painting (Wayne Gonzales, Roger Metto, Jason Middlebrook, Cristian Rieloff), Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden 2003 Parallax Views: Art and The JFK Assassination (Ant Farm & T.R. Uthco, Wayne Gonzales, Eric M. Jensen), Hallwals Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, New York, USA 150 artists make 150 T - Shirts, Daniel Silverstein Gallery, New York, USA Cartoon, Riva Gallery, New York, USA Melvins, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA 2002 The Presidential Suite, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York, USA Gravity Over Time, curated by John Pilson, 1000 Eventi, Milan, Italy From the Observatory, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA Subject Matters, curated by Norman Dubrow, Kravets / Wehby Gallery, New York; Conner Contemporary Art, Washington, USA 2001 How is everything?

But they also are very pleased that Lucas, as the chair of the House Agriculture Committee, sponsored the 2014 Agriculture bill, which appropriated over a billion dollars for scientific research on the impact of climate change on farming.

There is ample evidence in the UK of increasing fuel poverty (i.e., household spending over 10 % of disposable income keeping warm in winter) in the regions of wind farm deployment where higher electricity bills are needed to cover the rent of the land (from usually already rich) landowners, a direct reversal of the process whereby cheap energy over the last century has lifted a significant fraction of the world's poor from their poverty.

The taxpayers who paid for the subsidies to build the wind farms, then paid over the odds for an unreliable source of power generation will ultimately be left to pick up the bill for clearing up the Green eco mess.

Last year, for the fourth time since the federal government outlawed hemp farming in the United States over 50 years ago, a bill was introduced by Rep. Ron Paul in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Kentucky Department of Agriculture Sues DEA in U.S. District Court Over DEA's Refusal to Respect Farm Bill Provision May 15, 2014

Yet both parties are complicit in pushing some of the worst legislation on this front — the grotesque farm bill and the bloated energy bill, for example — and in obfuscating the rest (see: Lieberman - Warner bill; and for some excellent ongoing coverage of the debate, head over to Grist and Climate Progress).

The long - stalled farm bill, which represents nearly $ 1 trillion in spending over the next 10 years and passed on a rare bipartisan vote, 68 to 32, produced clear winners and losers.

Farm Bill With Amendment to Allow Industrial Hemp Research Passes House in 216 to 208 Floor Vote Amendment Marks First Hemp Legislation to Pass in Congress in Over Fifty Years

The last farm bill was passed in 2014, allocating nearly $ 500 billion over five years to food, nutrition and agriculture.

ABlawg posts on the rights of farm and ranch workers were tabled in the legislature during the debate over Bill 6 by the leader of the Alberta Liberals, Dr David Swann (see Hansard, December 7, 2015), who has been a tireless advocate for the rights of these workers.

The Eastern Sports Show bills itself as the largest event of its type east of the Mississippi; over a million people pass through the State Farm Show Complex over nine days to take in the wares showcased by 1,200 plus exhibitors.

These include federal authority over waters of the U.S., wetlands, concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), water quality standards, and conservation issues related to the farm bill (such as swampbuster).

- Bill Watterson We ventured over to Dreamfield Farms for our very first play date on Thursday.