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More than 300 U.S. farm and commodity groups urged Congress in a letter on Monday to pass a long-delayed farm spending bill before the end of the year, as farmers face a projected decline in income.
Despite Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., declaring Friday morning that Senate Democrats would only vote for the original CR, the newest 118-page bill is palatable enough that it is ...
The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Committee passed its version of a $1.5 trillion farm spending bill late Thursday night with few Democratic votes, prolonging a standoff ...
The 1981 farm bill involved only small changes and continued the policy of restricting supply rather than increasing demand. The 1984 budget proposal was designed to cut subsidies rather than reform the system, but Congress rejected it. Instead, Congress continued the same policies in the 1985 farm bill, which Reagan reluctantly signed.
Passed the Senate on March 1, 2024 Signed into law by President Joe Biden on March 1, 2024 On February 29, the House passed a short-term continuing resolution extending the funding deadline to March 8 for the first four appropriations bills in the November and January CRs, and to March 22 for the rest. [ 47 ]
The Senate approved the House-passed short-term government funding bill in a just-after-midnight vote by a vote of 85-11. The legislation will extend government funding until March 14.
The Farm Bill was last authorized in 2018, and after failing to reauthorize it on the typical five-year schedule in 2023, Congress extended the 2018 bill through the 2024 fiscal and crop year ...
The first farm bill, known as the Agriculture Adjustment Act (AAA), was passed by Congress in 1933 as a part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. [8] The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 is the most recent farm bill, prior to this one.