Majority News

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, wrote Acting Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Michael Young to request information about the Department’s response to recent detections of avian influenza around the country. The U.S. Department of Agriculture...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry released the following statement in response to the Trump administration’s fiscal year 2018 budget request, which proposes steep cuts to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA): “I strongly oppose...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), today introduced new bipartisan legislation to give top U.S. agriculture and food officials permanent representation on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). The “Food Security is National Security Act of 2017” will also...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today joined Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID) and U.S. Representatives Suzan DelBene (WA-01) and Glenn Thompson (PA-05) to reintroduce the Timber Innovation Act – bipartisan, bicameral legislation that aims...

Washington, D.C. —Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow and Idaho Senator Mike Crapo are leading a bipartisan effort to end the shortfall of veterinarians in rural areas by reintroducing the Veterinary Medicine Loan Repayment Program Enhancement Act (VMLRPEA). This bipartisan bill would help meet the growing demand for veterinarians nationwide by...

MANHATTAN, KAN. – U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, today released the following opening statement – as prepared for delivery – at the field hearing at Kansas State University entitled: Hearing from the Heartland: Perspectives on the 2018 Farm Bill...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, wrote to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Inspector General Phyllis Fong to gather information about a severe staffing shortage in the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), exacerbated by the...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, wrote Acting Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Michael Young to gather information regarding the recent removal of animal welfare data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) website. On February 3, 2017,...

WASHINGTON – Idaho Senator Mike Crapo and Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow have introduced the Building Rail Access for Customers and the Economy, or BRACE Act, which would make permanent a critical tax credit used to repair and upgrade short line railroads. “Our agriculture communities rely on small business freight railroads to...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, today released the following statement after meeting with former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue, President Trump’s nominee for Agriculture Secretary to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, today released the following statement regarding President-elect Donald Trump‘s nomination of former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue for Agriculture Secretary to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, today released the following statement on the U.S. Department of Agriculture‘s (USDA) final rule on organic livestock and poultry production standards: “I am disappointed that USDA’s rule on...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, released the following statement after House passage Thursday evening of legislation reauthorizing the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). “Providing the CFTC with urgently needed resources is a...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, today announced new staff selections to the Committee. Joe Shultz will continue to serve as Staff Director and Jacqlyn Schneider will continue as Deputy Staff Director/Policy Director for the Committee. “As...

U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, released a statement on the appointment of Senator-Elect Chris Van Hollen to serve on the Committee: “I am excited to welcome Senator-Elect Chris Van Hollen to our Committee, bringing to ten the number of Democrats serving...

U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, released a statement on President-Elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Scott Pruitt to lead the Environmental Protection Agency: “I am deeply concerned by the nomination of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to be the...

U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today released a statement on the decision by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to repropose the position limits rule:  “I am disappointed that the CFTC is not finalizing the position limits rule in its entirety...

U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today announced the most comprehensive urban agriculture bill to be introduced in Congress. The Urban Agriculture Act of 2016 will help create new economic opportunities, giving Michigan families greater access to healthy food and creating a...

U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, released the following opening statement – as prepared for delivery – at today’s full committee hearing with the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the Current State of the Farm Economy.  ### Thank you Chairman...

U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today released the following statement on the Obama Administration‘s announcement of a trade enforcement case against China for domestic subsidies of wheat, corn, and rice that may have violated its WTO commitments:...