Source: POLITICO'S MORNING AGRICULTURE, 3/15/21
The House this week is set to vote again on a sweeping farm labor bill that would provide a path to legal status for many of the nation’s farmworkers. H.R. 1603, spearheaded by Reps. Zoe Lofgren (R-Calif.) and Dan Newhouse (R-Wash.), would also make it easier for farmers to hire employees through the H-2A foreign guestworker program. Your turn, Senate: The bill is widely expected to pass after it earned bipartisan support in the previous session of Congress. But the Senate let the bill die — and so far, no Senators have stepped up to introduce a similar measure this go-around.
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