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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.
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Action continues in Washington despite a Senate GOP leadership pullback of its health-care reform measure.
Brazil ethanol, Argentine biodiesel factors behind RFS delay
It took far longer and several false starts, but the U.S. and Mexico on Monday finally signed amendments to a sugar deal brokered between the two countries, the Commerce Department announced.
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Congress is out for the week while President Trump travels to the G20 summit in Germany