Agriculture Committee

The House Agriculture Committee Asks America to Step Off the Sidelines in Cuba

Sarah Stephens | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cuba Travel Ban, Agriculture Committee, Travel, Yoani Sanchez, Cuba, Darsi Ferrer, Peterson, Oscar-Espinosa-Chepe, Cuba Study Group, Politics News
Sarah Stephens

Rather than continuing the fiction that isolation will bring down the Castro government, the House Agriculture Committee proposes an entirely different approach.

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Warren Buffett Lobbying For Favorable Terms On Derivatives In Reform Bill

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Congress, Senate, White House, Warren Buffett, Lobbying, Lobbyists, Derivatives, Financial Reform, Agriculture Committee, Ben Nelson, Berkshire Hathaway, Nebraska, Politics News

Warren Buffett is lobbying the Senate to avoid derivatives reforms that would potentially hurt Berkshire Hathaway's $63 billion investment portfolio i...

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Changing the Climate for Cities?

Harry Moroz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Agriculture Committee, Urban Policy, Energy and Commerce Committee, Cities, Energy, Collin Peterson, American Clean Energy and Security Act, Pollution, Climate Change, Green News
Harry Moroz

Speaker Pelosi has snuck game-changing climate change legislation onto the House of Representatives calendar for a vote -- and likely passage -- this Friday.

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EU To Vote On Honey Bee "Recovery Zones" With Bee-Friendly Flowers

Reuters | Pete Harrison | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Europe, Honey, Bees, Biodiversity, Agriculture Committee, Environment, Honeybees, Animals, European Parliment, Neil Parish, Eu, Honey Bee Crisis, Green News

STRASBOURG, France - Honey bees, whose numbers are falling, must be given flowery "recovery zones" in Europe's farmlands to aid their survival, a lead...

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