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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.

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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.

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Congress is out for the week while President Trump travels to the G20 summit in Germany

Marketing year average price for wheat, oats came in under reference price; barley prices just above

Both the House and Senate are out for a Memorial Day break, so the focus will be on the White House.

Economic activity continued to expand at a “modest or moderate pace” from early April through late May, though not all Federal Reserve districts shared that sentiment, according to the Beige Book.

Getting NAFTA renegotiations with Canada and Mexico completed by January 2018 marks the “best window” for the discussions to conclude, according to US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.