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Billion-Dollar Strike: Farm Bill Amendment Could Change The Hemp Industry
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 - 12:55pm | 709Read More...Senate Agriculture Chair Debbie Stabenow's (D-Mich.) proposed that the 2024 Farm Bill include a subtle yet profound amendment poised to reshape the hemp industry. Released Monday, the bill revises key regulatory language, replacing "delta-9" THC with "total" THC and explicitly including THC-A in...
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Tater Debate: 14 Senators Come Together To Mash USDA's Grainy Ideas On Potatoes
Thursday, March 28, 2024 - 9:00pm | 501Read More...Fourteen senators are pushing back against a potential reclassification of potatoes from vegetables to grains by the US Department of Agriculture and Department of Health and Human Services. The senators submitted a letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack and HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra on Tuesday,...
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Which Members Of Congress Are Giving Their Money From Sam Bankman-Fried To Charity — And Which Ones Aren't?
Friday, December 2, 2022 - 4:48pm | 744Read More...The collapse of a leading cryptocurrency platform has been linked to the U.S. Congress, thanks to many political donations from the disgraced co-founder of the company. Here’s the latest on who is giving back the money they previously took in. What Happened: FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried...
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Sam Bankman-Fried Backed Bill To Regulate Digital Assets Finds Support From Several Senators In Wake Of FTX Collapse
Friday, November 11, 2022 - 4:28am | 476Read More...As the U.S. Midterm elections are underway, Senate members are increasingly talking about the dire need for ‘stringent’ crypto regulations amid the collapse of one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, FTX (CRYPTO: FTT). What Happened: Sen. Agriculture Committee Chair...
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With The Launch Of The QLine, Detroit Has Its First Streetcar In 60 Years: 'It Validates The City'
Friday, May 12, 2017 - 1:30pm | 1099Read More...The QLine, Detroit’s $140 million streetcar line on a 6.6-mile loop, opened to the public Friday after nearly a decade of planning and with assurances that it’s intended as the first piece of a broader regional transit system. The Kresge Foundation, Quicken Loans Chairman Dan Gilbert...
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'Not Your Father's Farm Bill' Passes Senate
Wednesday, February 5, 2014 - 12:24pm | 563Read More...Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow, author of the new farm bill and Chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, tweeted this Tuesday: This is not your father's #FarmBill http://t.co/sjZMmEY8GI — Sen. Debbie Stabenow (@StabenowPress) February 4, 2014...







