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Pingree gets big wins for sustainable ag and good food policy in Appropriations bill that gains preliminary approval
Washington, DC,
June 19, 2015
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Food and Agriculture
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree scored some significant wins for sustainable agriculture policy in a spending bill that won preliminary approval in the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture yesterday. The bill, which funds the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration, contains funding levels and other provisions that Pingree had pushed for. She is a member of the Appropriations Committee and sits on the Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, which approved the spending bill yesterday. The bill still has to go to the full Committee and then to a vote of the full House.
As a member of the Appropriations Committee, Pingree has the ability to influence funding levels for important programs. The bill passed yesterday contains funding for a number of programs Pingree advocated for, including:
Although the bill contained funding and programs that Pingree had pushed for, she strongly opposed many of the provisions of the bill, including language politicizing common-sense school lunch nutrition standards, extreme cuts to Farm Bill conservation programs, dangerous riders blocking regulation of e-cigarettes and trans fat, and overall spending levels that are being kept far too low by the sequester. The funding in this bill is 11.4% below what was provided in 2010. |