can't get the records so he goes well i'm going to i'm submitting freedom of information department of agriculture $600.00 in like 3 months but we got a list of 22 different restricted use pesticides many of those are banned in other states and other in other nations and above all there was actually in 3 different forms. these companies have lied to me personally and directly as a council member about a number of questions leave misled me they flat out lied and as we went through the process of these community meetings we slowly put together this bill bill 2491 this is serious serious stuff that deserves our attention turns to be deserves we don't was now. it's a bill from people who really were educated on what was going on and were concerned . it was a good way to make a conscious decision. how to deal with these companies it asks for buffer zones very minimal buffer zones much smaller than in other states around schools homes hospitals and shorelines and other sensitive areas there are 500 feet 100 feet around shorelines for pesticide disclosure including general use pesticides on a daily. base

the department of agriculture has been front and center in opposing most of the measures that have been introduced of the legislature that seek better regulation of pesticides i think our state laws may have been great at one point in regulating traditional plantation agriculture but clearly now where we have experimental combinations of pesticides being used on a widespread basis clearly our regulations are inadequate i'm not aware of anybody having done an environmental impact statement that looks at the impacts of pesticides or genetically engineered crops on any resource on water quality on air quality on soil quality in hawaii you have a large number of endangered species and so it's particularly important in that kind of environment to look at them more closely in the state isn't looking at them at all the governor has the power to make the statewide disclosure program mandatory he has the capacity to staff the pesticide branch to ensure that if there are pesticide violations that those are investigated in addressed within a timely manner what we're fighting for isn't just an envi

in the 2018 farm bill this agency was the lead agency with the department of interior and affirmative commerce and department of agriculture met to go to the consultation process that you described. in today's environment there are a lot of people with a lot of scientific data and all this needs to be taken into consideration but it is very important for citizens at large, those concerned about the environment and is concerned about production and the use of pesticides be informed through a one federal decision and the frustrating part of meeting the consultation is when people go and do their own it makes it difficult. we i think have an obligation and expectation our scientists work together where there is scientific disagreement that it be peer-reviewed and understood and acknowledged in that way so hopefully codifying this consultation procedure will enable us to do that in a manner that will achieve a consensus report and report to the public for the very reasons you administered, you, administrator wheeler talked about and that is to ensure the public of the safety of products that are being used not only for them an

ervices, department of agriculture as well as c.e.q. has been rs -- and said in december 2018, there parts of the agreement. c.e.q. remains a member along other agencies. c.e.q. is working to continue to group and achieves the work. c.e.q. looks forward to epa nuing to partner with as we work to develop scientific the olicy approacheses for process of consultation in of the endangered species acts -- endangered species act. >> thank you. inspiring to hear what each of you bring to the table heard an optimistic tone to the details. demonstrated this group has great potential to make great progress. next steps will be a meeting that we will hold on onday, a public meeting, to review the revised e.s.a. evaluation efforts be held on monday, june 10th on the building from 9 a.m. to noon, and i know many of you your staff and experts meeting.s for that we thank you for the commitments o hear the questions from the stakeholders who have great interest in how we are moving forward on this program. point, we will conclude the open press portion o

i am currently working with the department of agriculture to ensure that farmers have flexibility to use existing supplies of available seed for cover crops. i will be encouraging the agriculture department to release conservation reserve acres to further address the feed shortage. mr. president, i'm very pleased the department of agriculture heard the concerns that we were expressing and moved this november 1 hay and grazing date up to september 1 for this year. south dakota farmers and ranchers can rest assured that i will continue to share the challenges they are facing with the agriculture department. i will continue to do everything i can here in washington to support our nation's farmers and ranchers and to get our agricultural economy back on its feet. mr. president, i yield the floor. i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. reed: i would ask for the vitiation of the quorum. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reed: i would also ask that we pursuant t

department of agriculture and the u.s. forest service by training thousands of students each year in conservation work and firefighting. at a time when the forest service has been struggling to hire dispatchers and firefighters to prepare for the upcoming fire season, it is irresponsible, to say the least, to close these centers and lay off 1,100 job corps employees. mr. chairman, as the co-chair of the bipartisan job corps congressional caucus with congressman phil roe, i want to applaud representative newhouse to stop the department of labor and department of agriculture for going forward with this irresponsible decision. yield back. the chair: the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from north carolina. ms. foxx: i'll continue to reserve. the chair: the gentleman from oregon. mr. defazio: may i ask for the time on either side? the chair: the gentleman has 30 seconds. mr. defazio: ok. i doubt the -- i yield myself 30 seconds. i doubt the gentlelady has visited one of these programs. i have seen the hot shot teams. these kids

department go away. over the last several months, trump's agriculture secretary has announced a series of new plans to tryg the scientists in that department to heel. he started by saying he would take the agriculture economic research division, which currently operates independently, separate from the whole political side of the department, he decided he would bring those independent researchers instead directly under the control of his office. he also directed all the scientists at the agriculture department to start labeling their published research as preliminary, to put that disclaimer on all their published work, as if it wasn't actually finished or maybe it wasn't super solid. then, he announced that, you know what, let's just send all the scientists 1,000 miles away. but only the scientists doing the work we don't like, the ones working on climate change and trade policy and food stamps and stuff like that, congratulations, all of you, you all get to uproot your families immediately and move to kansas city, we're moving your jobs to kansas city, right now. you're all going. unless, of course, you'

department of agriculture. as chief economist dr. johansen is responsible for the agriculture forecast and projections as well as advising the secretary on the economic applications of regulations and legislative proposals. probably has submitted with mitigation payments as well. dr. johansen received his bachelor of arts in economics from northeastern university. his masters of science in phd in economics from his home state land at the university of minnesota. welcome and thank you for being here today after johansen. >> chairman roberts, ranking members and other distinguished committee members i want to thank you for the opportunity to testify today on president trump's agriculture trade policy agenda. ambassador and my colleagues at ustr and usda have been working around the clock to address agricultural trade issues with our partners and increase export opportunities for our farmers, ranchers, workers and agribusinesses. i look forward to highlighting our efforts in multiple areas. united states is the world's largest importer a

department of agriculture reports, north america north of mexico. this unit of study made it seem like places such as illinois had more in common where places such as new-foundland and oregon than mexico, panama, and jamaica. such conceptions exaggerated east-west connections and shrank those that ran north to south. the efforts played out in discussions of true homes. the more they mapped long distance travels the more ornithologies wondered where birds belonged. they tried to pin them down to identify their citizenship, as t with were. according to logic birds from north america north of mexico might travel tolt tropics and even farther south just as business agents, military forces and tourists did. but southern birds generally stayed in the south. perhaps the most significant and long lasting component of boundry drawings were the lines between here and away. it was not until the 1960s that ecolingses began to pay serious attention. until the 1980s for historians to make substantial progress on change in the americas. before then bird watchers d

department of agriculture and the department of veterans affairs that offer zero down payment option.onsumers can aualify f mortgage with as much as half their income going toward debt a ents, but the majority of consumers said they didn't know what the level wos and others said the limit was 40%. fannie mae's chief economist said it's impossible to know how manyn renters don't e consider buying because of these misperceptions, but he said it had to be some. for nightly business report, i'm diana olick in washington. >> time that take a look at some of today's upgrades and downgrades. we begin with facebook that was downgraded, with moffity and nathanson. the analyst cited the cornd business potential for growth and the price target now $210, that stock rose more than 1.5% to 178.10. jetblue was upgraded to buy f neutral at citi. the analyst cited positive pricing trends right now and the price target $26. that stock was up 4% today to $19.09. >>> dollar tree was upgraded to overweight from neutral at j.p. morgan. the analyst cites the potential for net income growth and the re genera

department of agriculture by providing schools with the option to serve low fat milk with flavor and require that milk offered is consistent with the most recent dietary guidelines for americans. in november, 2017, the u.s. department of agriculture announced regulatory changes for the national school lunch and school breakfast programs, including a provision that provides schools with the option to serve low fat 1% flavored milk. the school milk nutrition act for 2019 would codify this milk provision and maintain the option for schools to offer low fat 1% flavored milk if it is consistent with the most recent dietary guidelines for americans. i urge my colleagues to sign onto these bills during national dairy month and allowing our students to allow to consume the type of milk they love and receive the nutrition they need. mr. speaker, i look forward a week from today to be in the state capitol in harrisburg for a rally for all the advocates for nutrition for children and certainly for dairy farming as we rally for whole milk for healthy kids. thank you, mr. speaker, and i yield bac

department of agriculture. i have spoken to farmers who are concerned that an early frost could threaten entire farm operations this year because of late planting and more unpredictable weather patterns. this is an immediate threat. we are already suffering the consequences. and it will only get worse with time. the very existence of multigenerational farms and entire way of life for some families and community are at risk. once these farms are gone, they aren't coming back. make no mistake, due to drought, severe storms, and early spring and flooding, our farmers are on the frontline when it comes to climate change. unfortunately, over the past two years references to climate change, long-term weather variation, and the effects of human activity on oiler climate have been scrubbed from many federal websites and publications. farmers are veterinarians, entrepreneurs, accountants, meteorologistists, scientists in one day. by deleting information and references to climate change in official communication, we hamst

department of agriculture, in my opinion, the secretary has not acted swiftly enough to meet the needsfarmers by coming up with alternative markets. the u.s. trade representative, we have not heard anything about -- anything from that person on what new markets will be made available to farmers like myself after the closed market of china. there is a lot this administration can do to help farmers that i believe is not taking place, and it stems from the president's leadership, down to his agricultural secretary. -- right down to his agricultural secretary. , thank you son much, john boyd junior, and sterling smith. always a pleasure to talk crops with you. time now for our note of the week. it comes from the department of energy, which just increased the export capacity of freeport lng. they talk about freedom gas. increasing export capacity from freeport lng products is critical to spreading freedom gas throughout the world by giving american allies diverse and affordable sources of clean energy. coming up, we are going nuclear. we talk to the president and ceo of the nuclear energy i

do that by questioning the action of our counterparts be it with the department of state and be it with the department of agriculture and be it with all of the departments and this is the balance and i think to some degree the notion of us conducting some level of oversight has gotten spun into it being an adversarial circumstance. sometimes it's standing up to the constitution and ensuring that the u.s. government is making good choices and i also serve on the agriculture committee and as an example we've done oversight of the conservation title. it doesn't make the news because it's an important role and the conservation title is working well. i think to address the concerns and the lack of trust that people like peter may have who what we can do is ensure where possible congress is asking questions, ideally not in a hyperpartisan way to ensure that the decisions that the administration's making or that congress might be making. the good thing is when we make decisions we get to debate them for quite some time and i we don't make them particularly quickly and have information come to the forefront that is verifiab

nearly 6 years after the 1st complaints were made upon investigation the new york state department of agriculture discovered illegal traces of antibiotics in the treat even though it couldn't be proven that the antibiotics had directly caused the deaths of the pets it was a technical adulterant needed for the state department to force these companies to withdraw all the products in question from the shelves at the trace amounts of antibiotic residue found in the samples are not linked to the f.d.a. is ongoing investigation of chicken jerky products and again the trace amounts of antibiotic residue do not pose a health or pet safety risk when death or sickness is involved the cards appear to be stacked against consumers this is because according to the united states government your beloved companion is considered property that is worth little to no monetary value is very difficult to put a value on companion animals the courts have struggled with this where really comes down to a struggle is what are the damages to somebody who has had a pet that's been injured or killed. for the most part they're

the us department of agriculture says that much of the affected products could be in freezers at food service locations so make sure you check and see if you have that in your face. morning news and big night for broadway. we have highlights coming up for last night. >>before we go a little peek outside you are ready waking up to mild conditions we're taking a look at the golden gate where it is already 61 degrees in the motto, right now, you're waking up to a 50's and 60's all around the bay area upper 60's out in the east bay, so you know it's going to be another hot day. so we'll check the forecast we'll check the traffic and the hollywood minute to that's coming up after the break. >>to the crime for morning guarding of of the galaxy has joined this war your family. david daniel has that and more in the hollywood minute. >>chris pratt and katherine schwarzenegger arnold's daughter announced on social media they married this weekend. pratt was previously wed to actress on a ferris they have a 6 year-old son jett. >>tom cruise is the same age as me he has to fight the mommy. late ni

there's funding through the department of agriculture to help farmers. if a tornado destroys your , this is important to the community. some programs have smaller balances than others. that is something congress debates through the appropriation process. host: what if the holdup was the president's insistence that not as much money be included in this for puerto rico? how much has puerto rico received since hurricane maria? how much money do they get under this legislation? what is the status of disaster aid for the island? guest: i don't necessarily have a final dollar amount. there's so many different accounts, it's hard to keep track of. in the three previous disaster aid bills, through the community develop anment block grant program, frederico was post received $20 billion -- puerto rico was supposed to receive $20 billion. they have to go through that process. whichever agency is handling that for the municipality or the state, they have to apply. all these different financial controls, this has been a slow process. that is something lawmakers are

until the department of agriculture came up with rules for how it must be labeled. murkowski's home state of alaska is also the nation's leading seafood producer. cifimassive, wild-caught pa salmon industry is a source of state pride. murkowski even caut the huge pacific salmon mounted on her office wall herself. how much of this is about opposing this technology, and duw much of this is about protecting that ry and the politics surrounding that? us it is more than... than an industry. it is... it is an identity, and itmething that we are so keenly tied to.e the last thinged is the introduction of... of some genetically-engineered, mutated sphies that could compete w our fld stocks for... fd and within habitat. >> reporter: what murkowski's worried about is the new g.e salmon somehow escaping and mingling with alaska'sev wild specie though the only places g.e. salmon is approved to be grown now are the aquabounty facilities in canada and indiana, from which the f.d.a. said there's an "extremely low likelihood" of escape. in canada, the aquabounty facility does sit ri

much of the planting season making official estimates difficult to put together, but the department of agriculturecorn acreage was up,r soybeange came in below forecast to the lowest level since 13. >>> it has been ten years since the federal minimum wage was increased. bat's a record. while it may stuck at the federal level, states and some companies have been takingo matter their own hands. kate rodgers has more. >> reporter: workers across the country are getting a raise as states and localities increase wagesm the pay increases come as the federal minimum wage remain stagnant at $7.25 for nearly a decade,es a new record,te cries from advocates to a hike as much as $15. new jersey will raise pay to 0 on july 1st. in washington, d.c., the minimum wage will reach $14 an hour. many of the heits are incremental steps on a path to a $15 an hour wage. morehan half of the states nationwide now have wage floors higher than the federal minimum wage. >> right now we have seven states and the district of columbia going to 15 andhat's ahird of the u.s. workforce. but that still leaves 100 million workers i

>>it's part of the us department of agriculture's summer food service program, while that may sound like a lot. lawmakers say it's not even a quarter of the kids who participate in similar programs during the school year it sadly is a tremendous problem, arkansas senator john bozeman is sponsoring a bill to expand the program, instead of kids traveling to a specific site for food, the legislation would give states the option to deliver it to them or in some cases allow eligible families to get more food stamps, somebody needs to take care of we have programs to do this. >>the problem is the rules haven't changed in since the 1960's. roads are very different place after working on this proposal for years, senator bows and thinks this is his best chance yet to get it done because he now has bipartisan support. >>including senate majority leader mitch mcconnell advocacy groups are also hungry for change in of thrown their support behind the bill when you relax the rules and the private sector. >>the nonprofits people who want to be helpful helping these individuals they can to according to

what happened with why i'm a middle school was particularly egregious the state of hawaii department of agriculture does not do its job with respect to investigating complaints about pesticide drift and for years this is been the case it doesn't monitor the air it doesn't monitor the water it doesn't monitor the soil to make sure that pesticides are not leaving the fields and going into where people live and play and work. as a mom i think about what would i do. if i had to send my child to school every day alongside a field where i knew they were spraying pesticides but i didn't know when and i didn't know what. we require our kids to go to school why don't we require these companies to at least inform the parents or the school administrators what they're spraying when and where. so we started to ask questions like well what chemicals are they spray how do we manage runoff i sent an email to gary who is or asking him about what we can do what we could start a bill to get these chemical companies regulated so we can put a.

healthy food options such as fresh fruits and vegetables and according to the united states department of agriculture economic research service well over 23000000 americans live in a food desert which isn't surprising since zip codes with low incomes tend to have more fast food and convenience stores than middle income zip codes it is this discrepancy that led the atlanta mayor keisha lance bottoms to set a goal of bringing healthy food within a half mile of 85 percent of atlanta residents by $22021.00 of the ways to do this is out of all plants and trees which is why atlanta received a grant from the community forest an open space program to establish the city's 1st and nation's largest urban food forest to be named the urban food forest the browns mill on a $7.00 acre site the food forest will be one of more than so. as in the public food forests across the united states it will include not in fruit trees herbs fruits and vegetables and even areas to grow mushrooms however food forests and projects like them are more than experiments in nutrition they offer hope for a future in which food is democr

." >>> the department of agriculture has earmarked another $16 billion in direct payments to farmers,ho have been devastated by president trump's trade war with china. farmers who grow soybeans have been hit the hardest. but some are growing from the trade war. >> reporter: it's a northern california community best known for its biggest product. gilroy is almost synonymous with garlic. they've been peeling and planting it here for decades. >> if the root plate is still in tact, you have california garlic on your hand. >> reporter: christopher farms is the nation's largest garlic grower and just one of three u.s. producers. a glut of c others out of business. >> since 1993, chinese exporters have flooded the market can over $600 million of dumped chinese garlic. >> reporter: quarrgarlic growere been benefiting from the tariffs. shoppers will find u.s. garlic more expensive, but the price difference will be smaller. >> i predict we'll see a 25% increase in demand for california garlic, so we're going to invest in additional acreage and more jobs. >> reporter: many farmers rely heavily o

what happened with why i'm a middle school was particularly egregious the state of hawaii department of agriculture does not do its job with respect to investigating complaints about pesticide drift and for years this is been the case it doesn't monitor the air it doesn't monitor the water it doesn't monitor the soil to make sure that pesticides are not leaving the fields and going into where people live and play and work. as a mom i think about what would i do if i had to send my child to school every day alongside a field where i knew they were spraying pesticides but i didn't know when and i didn't.

department of agriculture to establish its rural health liaison. this amendment builds on report language in the underlying bill that encourages hrsa to coordinate with the u.s. department of agriculture to ensure communities have access to the full suite of federal resources and those resources are used effectively for health outcomes. for a bit of additional background, representative bustos and senator smith of minnesota, their bipartisan rural health liaison act of 2018 was ultimately included in the 2018 farm bill. and established this rural health liaison position. the liaison position at the u, sda will be responsible for working with the department of health and human services to better coordinate rural health resources across federal agencies. this new program is critical to rural areas, which have historically lacked access to adequate health care. and this disparity is getting worse. it is vital that we move forward to close these gaps and address the rural shortage of hospitals, medical professionals, mental health services, and other he