Click to watch House floor debate on H.R. 1029 U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), Chairman of House Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research, today announced his bill to ensure pesticide safety and reliability passed the House with unanimous support. H.R. 1029, the Pesticide Registration Enhancement Act of 2017, reauthorizes the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act of 2003 (PRIA) and makes minor improvements. H.R. 1029 passed unanimously out of the House...
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Davis Advocates for Ag Research at Subcommittee Hearing U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), Chairman of the Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research, today held a hearing to highlight the importance of agricultural research in the next farm bill. Members heard from several witnesses including Dr. James Carrington, President, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center near St. Louis. “The public-private partnership in agricultural research has allowed American agr...
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U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) today announced that his amendment to prevent $4.2 million from going to the Office of Congressional Relations at the EPA was adopted plate last night and will be included in H.R. 5538, Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act. Davis offered his amendment in response to a lack of inaction by EPA and the Office of Congressional Relations. CLICK HERE to view the amendment. Background: Davis and his staff have contacted the EPA...
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U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) this week voted for H.R. 897, the Zika Vector Control Act, which eliminates duplicative permitting requirements for mosquito control, to help our farmers and communities fight the spread of the Zika Virus and other mosquito borne diseases. “This bill simply says that if the use of a pesticide is approved under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, then a second permit should not be required under the Clean Water Act,” said Davis. “We’re not sayi...
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A voluntary national standard for labeling food products containing genetically modified organisms is needed to avoid chaos that would result from letting states set requirements, an agricultural leader and a congressman said Thursday. A bill to do that has passed in the U.S. House of Representatives but a companion measure has stalled in the Senate. Meanwhile, a law on mandatory GMO labeling is set to take effect in Vermont on July 1. Illinois Farm Bureau President Richard Guebert said allowing...
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Washington, DC – U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), Chairman of House Agriculture Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research, released this statement today after the Senate failed to advance bipartisan food labeling legislation. “I was extremely disappointed to see that a small group of Senate Democrats who are supposed to stand up for farmers on the Senate Agriculture Committee have failed to do just that today. Instead, these Senators chose to block commonsense, bipartisan legisla...
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U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), at a recent House Agriculture Committee hearing, urged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy to implement provisions he authored in the 2014 Farm Bill to help the administrator’s goal of gaining trust among farmers. (Click here to view video) During the hearing, Administrator McCarthy admitted the agency had ‘a lot of work to do’ to improve relationships with the agriculture community. Davis’ provision to create an agriculture subc...
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U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) today released the following statement after President Obama vetoed Senate Joint Resolution 22, disapproval of the EPA’s “waters of the United States” or WOTUS rule. “It’s disappointing that just days after President Obama spoke about cutting ‘red tape’ in his State of the Union address, he doubles-down on a rule that could add burdensome permitting requirements for any farmer with a drainage ditch or pond on their land. This is just another overstep by the admini...
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U.S. Reps. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) and Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.) today announced that they have signed on to support the Cuba Agricultural Exports Act (H.R. 3687), making it a bipartisan bill. Under current law, US producers are permitted to export agricultural commodities to Cuba. However, restrictions on financing and marketing harm US competitiveness in the Cuban market and limit export potential. The Cuba Agricultural Exports Act would repeal restrictions on export financing and give producers acc...
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U.S. Reps. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) and Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.) recently returned to the United States from the Illinois Cuba Working Group’s Bipartisan Agricultural Trade Mission to Havana. To establish new economic opportunities for Illinois farmers, Davis, Bustos, and Illinois agricultural and business leaders met with Cuban officials to discuss opportunities to increase our exports to the island nation and strengthen bilateral trade relations. Their busy trip included meetings with the Cuban Nati...
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