WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today made the following statement after reviewing President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2017 budget request to Congress, which includes legislative proposals to cut the federal crop insurance program by $18...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, and key members of his staff, today received awards for their leadership on issues important to wheat producers from the National Association of Wheat Growers (NAWG) and the Kansas Association of Wheat Growers....
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Members of the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee, including Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan.; Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich.; Thom Tillis, R-N.C.; and Ben Sasse, R-Neb.; this week introduced S.Res. 360, a resolution acknowledging the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture’s (NASDA) 100th...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, sent a letter to Timothy Massad, Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), calling for answers regarding CFTC’s misguided accounting practices.
“I am concerned these accounting practices...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., introduced S.Res. 349, a resolution acknowledging the Farm Credit System’s 100th anniversary and its continued service to meet the credit and financial needs of rural communities.
On July 17, 1916,...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today held a business meeting where bipartisan legislation to reauthorize child nutrition programs was favorably reported out of the Agriculture Committee.
The legislation, “Improving Child Nutrition Integrity and Access...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today held a business meeting to consider a bill to reauthorize child nutrition programs for five years.
The legislation, “Improving Child Nutrition Integrity and Access Act of 2016,” reforms and...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced the Committee will hold a business meeting on Jan. 20 to markup Committee Print: Improving Child Nutrition Integrity and Access Act of 2016.
Title: Business Meeting
Date: Wednesday,...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry today launched a redesigned website to help folks stay up-to-date with the important work happening in the Committee. The site, which remains located at www.agriculture.senate.gov, will be a one stop shop for information ranging from past and upcoming hearings...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today is pleased to announce Senate passage of mandatory Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) repeal for beef and pork in the year-end funding bill. The bill is headed to the President to be signed into law.
“U.S....
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today applauded the Commodity and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for its decision to relieve certain commodity market participants, including farmers, ranchers and grain elevator operators, of overly burdensome paperwork...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today announced the Committee will hold a business meeting in January 2016 to markup bipartisan legislation reauthorizing child nutrition programs.
“Child nutrition reauthorization will be...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today is pleased to announce the inclusion of mandatory Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) repeal in the year-end funding bill, currently awaiting a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives.
COOL, first authorized in the 2002...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today highlighted a World Trade Organization (WTO) decision authorizing Canada and Mexico to place tariffs on over $1 billion of American-made goods.
This retaliation amount is the result of the Country of...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today is pleased to announce House and Senate passage of H.R. 22, the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act. The FAST Act includes a provision to restore a $3 billion crop insurance cut...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today held a hearing on the agriculture industry’s role in combating global hunger.
“Tonight, one in nine people – that’s over 800 million worldwide – will go to bed...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., today applauded action in the transportation conference report that would restore $3 billion in cuts to crop insurance.
"I appreciate the dedication to America’s farmers shown by our...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today announced the Committee will hold a hearing on the agriculture industry’s role in combating global hunger.
Title: Agriculture’s Role in Combating Global Hunger
Date: Wednesday, Dec....
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today held a hearing on U.S. wildfire budgetary impacts and threats to natural resources.
“I want to emphasize that our Committee has oversight responsibilities over the U.S. Forest Service, whose primary mission...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today is pleased to announce Senate passage of S.J.Res.22, a joint resolution of disapproval of EPA’s ‘Waters of the United States’ (WOTUS) rule. This resolution, introduced by Agriculture Committee Member Senator Joni...