Senate Defers Work on Post Office Overhaul
Postal officials are pushing for legislation that will allow them to make cuts in spending this year, but the Senate vote lacked the 60 votes needed to move to a floor debate.
View ArticleBill Would Expand Insurance for Crops
A new farm bill under consideration by the Senate agriculture committee would end direct subsidies to farmers for not growing crops.
View ArticleWith App, Groups Seek Better Way to Report Complaints of Profiling by Airport...
Two civil rights groups unveiled a mobile phone application called FlyRights that will let travelers file real-time complaints about racial and gender profiling with the Transportation Security...
View ArticleMost Americans Support Plan to Suspend Saturday Mail Delivery, Poll Finds
An overwhelming majority of Americans support the Postal Service's plan to end Saturday mail delivery, according to a poll conducted by The New York Times/CBS News.
View ArticleMajor Bill Delayed, House Works on Short-Term Farm Measure
After delaying action on a sweeping agriculture measure, lawmakers seek a way to aid farmers devastated by the drought.
View ArticleObama Releases $470 Million for Highway Work
The Obama administration is making nearly half a billion dollars available to states to create thousands of construction jobs and fix crumbling roads and bridges.
View ArticleLawmakers Rated on Food and Farm Policy Votes
A coalition of food policy, environmental and antihunger groups, Food Policy Action, unveiled a scorecard to grade Congress on how it votes on issues related to food and farm policy.
View ArticleFederal Agencies Brace for Possible Cuts
Officials are making plans to lay off workers, shift money and delay contracts if President Obama and Congress fail to make a deal to prevent automatic cuts and tax increases.
View ArticleFarm Bill Savings? Not Again, Watchdog Says
As agriculture committee leaders in Congress push to have their farm bills rolled into any deficit deal, a watchdog group questions past savings projections.
View ArticleNew Estimates Question Savings from Farm Bills
Farm bills passed by the full Senate and the House Agriculture Committee in 2012 would cost billions more this year if they were enacted without changes, according to a new estimate from the...
View ArticleCongress Set to Begin Work on Farm Bill
The Senate Agriculture Committee announced Tuesday that it would begin working on a new farm bill next week, reviving efforts to pass the once-every-five-years spending bill that sets the nation’s food...
View ArticleFood Stamp Program Faces Deeper Cuts Under House Farm Bill
A new farm bill currently being crafted by the House Agriculture Committee includes deeper cuts to the food stamp program than those included in legislation that passed the Senate last year.
View ArticleLegal Memo Advised Postal Service Against Ending Saturday Delivery
An outside law firm hired by the Postal Service warned the nine-member board that oversees the agency that they risked being removed from office if they proceeded with plans to end mail delivery on...
View ArticleSenate Panel Approves Farm Bill
The Senate Agriculture Committee approved a $955 billion farm bill on Tuesday, the first step toward completing an overhaul of the nation’s food and farm policy that was derailed last year when the...
View ArticleHouse Agriculture Committee Approves Farm Bill
The House voted to approve a $940 billion farm bill.
View ArticleFood Company and Farmers Union Back Changes to Aid Program
One of the world’s largest food companies offered its support on Wednesday for changes to the way the United States provides food aid to developing countries, adding critical agribusiness backing for...
View ArticleBoehner Endorses House Farm Bill
The House measure received a major endorsement when Speaker John A. Boehner said he would support the agriculture and nutrition legislation the chamber is to begin work on this month.
View ArticleOpposition to House Farm Bill Spans Political Spectrum
As the House prepares to vote this week on a five-year farm bill, liberal and conservative critics call it a nearly $1 trillion giveaway to wealthy corporate farmers, with price supports for crops that...
View ArticleCongress Seeks Path Forward on Farm Bill as Deadline Approaches
The chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee said she wanted to work with her House counterparts on legislation that would continue agriculture programs set to expire Sept. 30.
View ArticleFood Stamp Spending and Caseload Are Declining, Report Says
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities said the number of people on food stamps was declining month to month in about half the states and increasing incrementally in the other half.
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