continuing resolution

A government shutdown looms less than three-weeks away and lawmakers still can’t agree on how to avert it and the impact it could have on constituents, including farmers and ranchers.

USDA’s annual spending bill got a jump start on Congress’ last-minute September budget crush, while Washington Senator Patty Murray told lawmakers the reorganization will save taxpayers billions.

The Continuing Resolution keeping the government fully funded through March 14th, also included economic aid for farmers experiencing one of the biggest income drops in many years.  In fact, over the past two years, USDA projects that farmers will experience the steepest two-year decline in net farm income in history.  Meanwhi...

Congress passed a year-end bill that includes a continuing resolution extending current levels of federal funding until March, including an extension of the 2018 Farm Bill.  However, the National Association of Conservation Districts was disappointed the package didn’t include Inflation Reduction Act conservation funding.   "The f...

Over the weekend, Congress passed a short-term continuing resolution, which will fund the federal government through November 17, 2023.

The Senate and the House passed a Continuing Resolution to fund federal agencies through December 3rd. The CR provides $10 billion in much-needed disaster relief for losses incurred by farmers and ranchers in 2020 and 2021. It also extends Livestock Mandatory Reporting through December 3rd ...

As Senate Ag Chair Pat Roberts, and he’ll tell you farm groups turned the tide in the election-year Republican fight with House Democrats to restore $30 billion in key Farm Bill and virus funding in the Commodity Credit Corporation. The Kansas Republican after Democrats relented in a deal that gave them more for school nutrition programs said: “Forty-seven different farm organizations and commodi

On Thursday, the House of Representatives voted in favor of a continuing resolution to keep the government funded through November 21st.  Central Washington’s Dan Newhouse said the hope is the continuation will give the Senate time to complete their needed work on appropriation bills for the upcoming year.  Newhouse...

Congress has until the end of this week to fund the federal government before the current continuing resolution expires.  R.J. Karney, budget adviser with the American Farm Bureau says the only certainty in Washington D.C. is that there is always uncertainty.  ...