Bob Goodlatte

Just a few days remain in the lame duck session of Congress, but lawmakers are still working to get key pieces of legislation approved.  Representative Dan Newhouse said in the remaining days of 2018, he and others want to see the issue of Ag Labor addressed.  He...

House Ag Committee Chair Mike Conaway has compiled a list of 36 Republicans he needs to persuade to vote in favor of the House Farm Bill.  That’s a lot of work to do before it comes up for a second vote, which is tentatively expected to take place next week.  Politico said...

House Republican leadership worked out a deal to bring up two different immigration bills for votes next week.  One of the bills is the conservative measure authored by Representative Bob Goodlatte that the Freedom Caucus wanted to be brought up for a vote before they would commit votes to the farm bill.  Because...

Agriculture is in the midst of a labor crisis that’s only getting worse.  Ag groups have been pushing Congress to fix the immigration system for the last two decades.  Paul Schlegel, AFBF managing director of public policy and economics, says it’s past time for Congress to get the immigration system overhauled.  He said one of the ...

The House Farm Bill will get another vote on June 22 after a separate vote on a conservative immigration bill.   House Majority Whip Steve Scalise announced the schedule on Monday.  The conservative immigration bill is sponsored by House Judiciary Chair Bob Goodlatte of Virginia and Homeland Security Chair Michael McCaul of Texas.   Roll Call ...

Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue said labor is always among the top three issues he hears about from farmers across the country.  He says the USDA is are hopeful that some sort of legal, agricultural workforce, can be included in immigration debate.  At...

Immigration reform bills failed in the Senate last week, but farm leaders are pressing for House action that they want to include agricultural workers.  The American Farm Bureau Federation is urging lawmakers to get behind a bid by Bob Goodlatte to include the AG Act in his broader immigration reform bill.  ...

A bill proposed by Virginia Republican Representative Bob Goodlatte would scrap the current H-2A program which is party controlled by the U.S. Labor Department.  It would institute an H-2C program that would be overseen by the USDA.  Goodlat...

A complete overhaul of the American agricultural guest worker program is a major part of a House of Representatives’ plan to fix DACA.  DACA is currently tied up in an immigration reform battle on Capitol Hill.   Virginia Republican Bob Goodlatte, as well as three other Republicans, recently introduced the “Securing America’s Future Act.”  The bill has several provisio...

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway offered his approval to a bill that would bring reforms to agriculture labor.  Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee approves the Ag Act, which supporters say would replace the flawed H-2A guestworker program.  Conaway...