Source: NATIONAL SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE COALITION, 5/13/16

This week, Congressional appropriators returned from their weeklong recess to pick up where they left off and continue finalizing funding bills for fiscal year (FY) 2017. While the House Appropriations Committee passed its agriculture appropriations bill on April 19, which included funding bills for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee had not taken up any bills before the recess.

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