spending bill

The House and Senate this week came together in passage of spending bills for fiscal year 2020.  Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby, an Alabama Republican, said, "bipartisan cooperation has made this possible.”   The spending package for agriculture includes $23.5 billion in di...

President Trump signed the $1.3 trillion omnibus budget bill on Friday.  Which included a new funding structure for fighting wildfires.  Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue addressed the idea of fighting wildfires earlier this month.   “Where we don’t have to borrow money to spend on fire suppression, where we could be using it on forest management to prevent forest fires.”   Also included in...

The Hagstrom Report says congressional leaders have agreed on an omnibus appropriations bill to fund the government through September 30.   The bill passed cleared the House Thursday afternoon, and the Senate late Thursday night.  The bill contains a fix to Section 199-A of the tax law that currently gives farmers an incentive to sell to cooperatives rather than privately owned companies.  The Nat

Members of the House appropriations subcommittee have sent the Fiscal Year 2018 Department of Agriculture and FDA spending bill to the full House. Political experts points out this proposal reverses many of President Trump’s proposed cuts.  ...