A defense spending markup, a Georgia House election, more details regarding President Donald Trump’s trade policy agenda and a Trump visit to Iowa are the key items on this week’s agenda.
The wait is over as Republican leadership finally released their version of health-care reform. It is similar in some ways to the House-passed measure, but differs significantly in other ways.
Consumers are expected to see supermarket prices in 2017 steady to 1 percent higher than 2016 when they fell for the first time since 1967, according to USDA’s Food Price Outlook report.
The Trump administration is showing that it is using agricultural trade to start opening markets to U.S. products, with last week’s tentative sugar accord to Mexico and now a beef trade protocol with China.
Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) held a hearing on legislation that would ease restrictions on the sale of gasoline blended with at least 15% ethanol, but it is a measure he opposes.
The congressional baseball game played Thursday is an apt focal point to what is right and what is needed not only in Washington but throughout the nation.
A possible Friday Senate vote on health-care reform and House votes on two bills that would crack down on illegal immigration are the focus in Congress in the week ahead.
