House Agriculture Committee

How 1 State Is Scaling Back Both Hunger And Obesity

Tamara Sandberg | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Kentucky Association of Food Banks, Michelle Obama, Hunger, House Agriculture Committee, Food Stamps, Let's Move Campaign, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Kentucky, Child Hunger, Obesity, Food Insecure, Childhood Obesity, Impact News
Tamara Sandberg

Protecting our children from obesity requires more than increased physical activity and access to healthy food at school. It also compels us to do all we can to be sure they aren't coming home to poorly stocked kitchen cabinets. Childhood obesity and hunger are related and real problems -- and both are also really solvable.

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My Year on Food Stamps

Wendy Fontaine | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Welfare, Department of Health and Human Services, Food Stamps, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, House Agriculture Committee, Buffett Rule, Impact News
Wendy Fontaine

I had worked as a newspaper reporter for more than a decade, interviewing presidential candidates and reality TV stars. I had a college degree and a retirement account. Never once had I thought I would need help with something as basic as buying food for my kid.

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Was Corzine Aware Of His Company Misusing Customer Funds?

Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: CME Executive Chairman Terrence Duffy, Video, Jon Corzine, House Agriculture Committee, MF Global, Justice Department, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Senate Agriculture Committee, CME Group, Business News

(Alexandra Alper and Aruna Viswanatha) - The regulatory arm of CME Group has turned over interviews to the Justice Department that allege former M...

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Agricultural Policy Should Fuel Health, Not Epidemics!

Elizabeth Kucinich | Posted 07.24.2011

Read More: American Heart Association, Fast Food, Congress, USDA Nutrition Programs, Type 2 Diabetes, Health Care Costs, Agriculture, USDA Policy, Subsidies, Agriculture Reform, Elizabeth Kucinich, Federal Budget, Agricultural Subsidies, Farm Bill, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, 2012 Farm Bill, House Agriculture Committee, Federal Budget Deficit, Prevention, Health, Food Politics, Agriculture Subsidies, Food, Usda, Pcrm, Medical Costs, Diabetes, Farm Subsidies, Heart Disease, Diabetes Prevention, Vegetarian, Vegan, Agribusiness, Veganism, Fruit, Industrial Agriculture, Meat, House Appropriations Committee, Preventative Healthcare, Food Policy Agenda, Appropriations, Death, Doctors, Cholesterol, Healthy Diet, Diet, Healthy Eating, Unhealthy Diets, Hal Rogers, Obesity, Politics News
Elizabeth Kucinich

In 2009, USDA spent more than twice as much buying meat and dairy as it did on fruits and vegetables. What that means is that the USDA used taxpayers' money to buy about $1.5 billion worth of meat and dairy.

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Thank You for Spraying

Ken Cook | Posted 06.08.2011

Read More: Food, Pesticides, Organic Produce, Organic Foods, Organic Food, Organic, Horticulture, House Agriculture Committee, Nutrition, Epa, Darryl Issa, Jean Schmidt, Food News
Ken Cook

Eyes widened in a room of executives from companies with annual organic sales in the hundreds of millions of dollars, as Schmidt described how cakes baked with organic sugar and flour don't taste as good as regular cakes.

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A New Vision for the 2012 Farm Bill?

Paula Crossfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sustainable Agriculture, Food Policy, Farm Bill 2012, Farm Bill, Collin Peterson, House Agriculture Committee, Sustainable Food, Food News
Paula Crossfield

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, who last year called those who spend money on organic produce "dumb," may become the unlikely champion of a Farm Bill in 2012 that creates opportunities for sustainable farmers.

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Obama's USDA Less Transparent Than Bush's

Donald Carr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congress, Farm Subsidy, Tom Vilsack, Secretary, Corn, Cotton, Agriculture, 1614, Transparency, Usda, Farm Bill, Rice, 2008, House Agriculture Committee, Farm, Farm Subsidies, Accountability, US Department of Agriculture, Conmference Committee, Bush, Obama, President, Politics News
Donald Carr

The Environmental Working Group has worked hard to track the billions lavished on the wealthiest and largest farm operations in the country, in the ho...

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Wall Street Follies: The Next Act

New York Times | GRETCHEN MORGENSON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: House Financial Services Committee, Bailout, House Agriculture Committee, Obama Adminstration, Financial Reforms, Federal Reserve, Wall Street, Ag Committee, Derivatives, Economy, Financial Reform, Obama, Reform, The Fed, Consumer Protection Bill, White House, Financial Services Committee, Glass-Steagall, Politics News

It certainly sounded good. Hoping, perhaps, to persuade a dubious public that curbing reckless business practices is indeed a Washington priority, t...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Congressional Committees Quietly Kill Portion Of Derivatives Bill; No One Watching For Systemic Risk

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: President, White House, Bankruptcy, Cftc, Derivatives, Bernanke, House Ag Committee, Federal Reserve, Regulation, Obama, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Legislation, Aig, Lehman Brothers, Tim Geithner, House Agriculture Committee, Treasury, Ben Bernanke, Bear Stearns, House Bill, Bill, Otc Derivatives, House Financial Services Committee, Business News

Two congressional committees in charge of drafting legislation to regulate derivatives have quietly killed a provision that would allow the Federal Re...

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Big Pork at the Government Trough -- Again

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Debt, House Agriculture Committee, Bailout, National Pork Producers Council, Swine Flu, Ohio, Factory Farms, Usda, Pork, H1n1, Green News
Wayne Pacelle

The public no longer wants a combination of financial bailouts and government deregulation. But Congress and the U.S.D.A. never seem to have gotten the memo when it comes to Big Agribusiness, especially the pork industry.

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Leon Panetta Right Choice for CIA

Dan Glickman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cia Director, Obama Transition, Central Intelligence Agency, Leon Panetta, Leon Panetta Obama, Barack Obama, TAGS: Central Intelligence Agency, Cia, House Agriculture Committee, Obama Cabinet, Obama Appointees, Obama Appointments, Central Intelligence Agency Obama, Leon Panetta CIA, Politics News
Dan Glickman

Leon Panetta is a patriot, a veteran, and a consensus builder, and he will lead the CIA forthrightly and in full respect for the law and the Constitution. I frankly cannot think of a better choice.

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