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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U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis, who returned Thursday from a trip to Cuba with Illinois agricultural officials, said he was disappointed in the lack of a shift toward free enterprise and improvement in living standards in that country compared to what he saw 10 years ago. Davis, R-Taylorville, first visited Cuba as a congressional aide to Rep. John Shimkus, R-Collinsville, 10 years ago. His latest trip this week came after President Barack Obama began normalizing relations with a country that the United...
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U.S. Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), chair of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Biotechnology, Horticulture, and Research, today welcomed distinguished researchers from agriculture colleges and universities throughout the U.S., including Dean Hauser, College of ACES, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, to testify before the committee on the importance of innovation and research. This hearing is part of a series of hearings highlighting agricultural research, extension, and education program...
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