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GOP adds three newcomers to House Ag; former chair Lucas takes a break
Although they’re in the minority, Republicans on the House Agriculture Committee will work for regulatory relief at home for farmers and ranchers and market access abroad for U.S. farm exports, said Rep. Michael Conaway, the GOP leader on the committee, on Wednesday.
A ‘growing economic storm in farm country,’ says new House Ag leader
There are many challenges facing rural America, said the new House Agriculture chairman, Collin Peterson. "There is a new farm bill to implement, a growing economic storm in farm country to address, and the ongoing harm of a trade war to alleviate, not to mention the range of unforeseen issues that will test the mettle of the people we’re here to serve," said Peterson in a statement over the weekend.
As House Agriculture chairman, Peterson plans extensive oversight hearings
Incoming Agriculture Committee chair Collin Peterson spelled out an ambitious plan for hearings on topics from the farm economy and the trade war to rural broadband and a review of Sonny Perdue’s decision to move two USDA agencies out of Washington.
House elections stamp expiration date on GOP ‘welfare reform in the farm bill’
The midterm elections on Tuesday, giving Democrats control of the House beginning in January, effectively ended a Republican push for stricter SNAP work requirements in the 2018 farm bill. The elections could also be the jolt that breaks the stalemate in Senate-House negotiations over the bill. <strong>(No paywall)</strong>
Show of opposition: No Democratic amendments for farm bill, says Peterson
Just as they did at committee level, House Democrats will show their opposition to the Republican-written farm bill by refusing to offer amendments during floor debate, said Rep. Collin Peterson on Wednesday.
Peterson’s farm bill plan: ‘Ask a lot of questions and vote no’
The Democratic leader on the House Agriculture Committee said that “you can’t fix a bad bill,” so when the committee meets on Wednesday to vote on the proposed farm bill, “We’re going to ask a bunch of questions and vote no.”
Conaway: I’ll pass a farm bill without Democratic help
At an impasse with Democrats over his plans for large cuts in the food stamp program, House Agriculture Committee chairman Michael Conaway says he will write — and pass — a farm bill without them.
Peterson: No negotiations until Democrats see farm bill text
Democrats on the House Agriculture Committee say they are increasingly concerned that Republican Chairman Michael Conaway is pursuing steep cuts in food stamps. As a result, the panel’s lead Democrat, Collin Peterson, shut off farm bill negotiations until Conaway releases all pertinent materials.
Food stamp impasse delays House work on farm bill until mid-April
House Agriculture chairman Michael Conaway has shelved plans for committee approval of the new farm bill next week in the face of Democratic opposition to his proposed cuts in the $70-billion-a-year food stamp program.
House Ag panel leaders try to bridge a food stamp chasm
The chairman of the House Agriculture Committee is sticking to his goal of gaining committee approval of the new farm bill by the end of this month — while also winning bipartisan support for it.
Peterson sees farm bill ‘sooner rather than later’ in 2018
Top Democrat on House Ag panel, Peterson, to seek re-election
Fourteen-term Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson, a regular target of Republicans as a Democrat in a GOP-leaning district, told Roll Call that he's running for another term. "Yeah, I'm running. I've got 700 grand in the bank," the Democratic leader on the House Agriculture Committee told the Capitol Hill newspaper.
Money is tight but Conservation Reserve could grow, says Peterson
With simpler rules and caps on payment rates, the Conservation Reserve Program, which pays landowners to idle fragile land for 10 years or longer, could expand from its current limit of 24 million acres, says the Democratic leader on the House Agriculture Committee. "There's a lot of reforms that could be done on CRP," said Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson at the North American Agricultural Journalists meeting.
Top Democrat on House Ag panel sure bet for re-election
Republicans failed to recruit a top-tier challenger, so Rep. Collin Peterson, the Democratic leader on the House Agriculture Committee, has a clear path to election to his 14th term in Congress, says the political tipsheet Sabato's Crystal Ball. A "blue dog," fiscally conservative Democrat, Peterson represents a rural Republican-leaning district that gave a 10-point margin to the GOP presidential nominee in 2012.
Peterson, a Blue Dog Democrat, feels the Bern
Minnesota Rep. Collin Peterson, a conservative Democrat, has found unexpected acclaim for pledging to vote the same way at his party's presidential convention in late July as his constituents did in the March 1 caucuses: for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Peterson, Graham on retirement watch list
Two Democrats on the House Agriculture Committee, Collin Peterson of Minnesota and Gwen Graham of Florida, are being watched as potential retirees from Congress, political strategists tell Roll Call.
Moran, overseer of USDA funds, has $1.4 mln for campaign
Kansas Republican Jerry Moran, chairman of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on agriculture, has $1.4 million in cash in his campaign fund, said Roll Call.
Collin Peterson a modest favorite in early 2016 size-up
The ranking Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, Collin Peterson, rates as a modest favorite for re-election in 2016, says the political newsletter Sabato's Crystal Ball in an analysis issued 23 months before the election.