immigration reform

Less than four months remain before the current Farm Bill expires.  Will Congress get a new Farm Bill passed, before September 30th?  That effort hit a major stumbling block last month, with the Republican led Farm Bill Proposal, House Resolution 2 rejected.  Many, i...

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 ...

Efforts are underway to resurrect the House farm bill after last week’s defeat, triggered, according to some by an unrelated fight over immigration reform.  American Farm Bureau’s Andrew Walmsley said this wild farm bill ‘ride’ in the House isn’t over yet, after 30-GOP conservatives sunk the bill, as he put it, in a bid to win a votes on tough immigration reforms.   "There are a lot of peopl.

President Trump addressed farming, immigration and labor force during a recent stop in Michigan.   "For the farmers, we’re going to let your guest workers come in.  They’re going to work on your farm, we’re going to have the H2-B’s come in, but then they have to go out.  Then they have to go out.”  ...

As lawmakers in the House of Representatives were once again on the floor of the House debating the spending bill and the highly charged issue of immigration reform that was holding up the bill, Agr Secretary Sonny Purdue was talking with the House Ag Committee saying so far, not much of the immigration debate has touched on the need for a stable work force on the nation's farms...