Minority News

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today announced that the Committee voted to advance Dr. Chavonda J. Jacobs-Young to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics, and Margo Schlanger to be an Assistant Secretary of...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Ranking Member John Boozman (R-Ark.), along with House Agriculture Committee Chairman David Scott (D-Ga.) and Ranking Member Glenn ‘GT’ Thompson (R-Penn.) sent a letter to Rostin Behnam, Chairman of the Commodity...

WASHINGTON – Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and John Boozman (R-Ark.), Ranking Member, today announced that the Committee will hold a business meeting to consider the nominations of Dr. Chavonda J. Jacobs-Young to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, welcomed news that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is expanding opportunities for climate-smart agriculture in the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) and Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) and...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow of Michigan welcomed news of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) Dispute Settlement Panel landmark decision that Canada improperly restricted access to its market for U.S. dairy products in violation of its USMCA tariff-rate quota...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) today welcomed news from the Biden-Harris Administration on its Action Plan for a Fairer, More Competitive, and More Resilient Meat and Poultry Supply Chain. As Chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, Senator Stabenow led the effort to secure...

WASHINGTON - The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office released a report Monday on the implementation of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Market Facilitation Program in 2018 and 2019. The report shows that payments by USDA significantly overestimated the actual trade damages suffered by producers of eligible commodities, and that...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and John Boozman (R-Ark.), Ranking Member, today announced that the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Rostin Behnam to serve as Chairman and Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Mr....

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) today welcomed news from the U.S. Department of Agriculture that it will leverage American Rescue Plan Act funds to create the Food Supply Chain Guaranteed Loan Program. USDA will provide $100 million in loan guarantees, which will allow...

WASHINGTON –Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and John Boozman (R-Ark.), Ranking Member, today postponed the Committee business meeting to consider the nominations of Dr. Chavonda J. Jacobs-Young to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research,...

WASHINGTON – Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and John Boozman (R-Ark.), Ranking Member, today announced that the Committee will hold a business meeting to consider the nominations of Dr. Chavonda J. Jacobs-Young to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and John Thune (R-S.D.), a longtime member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, applauded the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Risk Management Agency for implementing their recommendation to...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, welcomed passage today of the Build Back Better Act by the U.S. House of Representatives.  “The Build Back Better Act is all about lowering costs for American families and making critical...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today released the following opening statement at the hearing to consider the nominations of Chavonda J. Jacobs-Young to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics, and Margo Schlanger...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and John Boozman (R-Ark.), Ranking Member, today announced that the U.S. Senate voted 76-19 to confirm Mr. Robert Bonnie to serve as Under Secretary for Farm Production and Conservation. “Democratic and...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and John Boozman (R-Ark.), Ranking Member, today announced that the U.S. Senate confirmed Adrienne Wojciechowski to be Assistant Secretary of Congressional Relations at the U.S. Department of...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and John Boozman (R-Ark.), Ranking Member, today announced that the Committee voted to advance Rostin Behnam as Chairman and Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Mr. Behnam has...

WASHINGTON – Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and John Boozman (R-Ark.), Ranking Member, today announced that the Committee will hold a business meeting to vote on the nomination of Rostin Behnam to be Chair and Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading...

WASHINGTON – Senate Agriculture Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) along with their colleagues, Sens. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.), introduced legislation to give top U.S. agriculture and food officials permanent representation on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, today released the following statement and summary on President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Framework. “The Build Back Better Act grows jobs in rural communities and invests in solutions to the climate...