Following a prolonged budget impasse, the federal government was poised at press time to initiate a partial shutdown midnight on Friday. Earlier this week, the Senate passed a short-term spending bill to fund the federal government through Feb. 8, but that resolution...
The US Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has revised the Cut Flowers and Greenery Import Manual. The Costa Rica Lilium and Costa Rica Rosa have been removed from the List of Flower and Country of Origin Combinations Eligible for Release. ...
SAF, along with other agricultural groups, sent a letter this week to leaders of the Agricultural Committees in the House and Senate urging them to approve the reauthorization of the Pesticide Registration Improvement Extension Act (PRIA). The letter noted that...
With the midterm elections over, members of the House and Senate returned to Washington last week for a lame duck session with a full agenda of unfinished legislation awaiting them. A lame duck session of Congress is the period between when members of a new Congress...
SAF, along with several other groups which are members of the Small Business Legislative Council (SBLC), submitted a statement for the record to the U.S. Senate Small Business & Entrepreneurship Committee urging Congress to improve tax reform for pass through...
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