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The United States has until May 23 to come into compliance with a WTO ruling calling for removing of trade distorting provisi...
A new report released this week from environmental groups says the Keystone XL pipeline if approved and built, would be respo...
President Obama is proposing to cut $ 7.5 billion from crop insurance in his fiscal year 2014 budget.That doesn’t s...
Public Lands Council is opposing a section of President Obama’s Fy 2014 budget which calls for a 74 percent increase on...
President Obama's 2014 budget proposal which calls for $ 3.77 trillion in spending also calls for $ 50 billion to...
President Obama’s choice to head the Environmental Protection Agency Gina McCarthy is up before the Senate at a nominat...
The newly formed All Risk No Reward Coalition is asking President Obama and the State Department to reject Trans Canada&rsquo...
Last week the White House notified Congress of plans to start trade discussions with the European Union.E.U. leaders are sayi...
A top TransCanada official says the latest environmental impact study released by the State Department confirms the Keystone ...
President Obama has nominated Gina McCarthy to be the next EPA Administrator replacing Lisa Jackson.American Coalition for Et...
Nebraska Senator Mike Johanns says the federal government should be able to handle a 1-point-2(T)Trillion dollar cut over the...
American Soybean Association leaders are pleased President Obama touched on several of their priority issues in his State of ...
South Dakota Senator John Thune gave the republican response to President Obama’s radio message this past weekend.He ta...
Tuesday, Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman approved the re-route plan for TransCanada’s Keystone Pipeline. The route revi...
President Obama will soon send the Senate several nominations to his Cabinet, including White House staffer Jack Lew as Secre...
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has decided to remain on the job as leader for USDA. That decision pleases many ag group an...
More debate is expected this week following the report of Vice President Joe Biden on tightening gun control rules.South Dako...
The United States government avoided one fiscal cliff but may not avert a second fiscal cliff.American Farm Bureau Federation...
The Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality’s report on the KeyStone Pipeline re-route is now in Governor Heineman...
Each year the Social Security Administration uses the Consumer Price Index, or CPI, to determine if those receiving benefits ...
President Obama this week rejected the latest fiscal cliff solution offered by House Speaker John Boehner. And Senate Majorit...
Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson says he's hopeful, but won't say he's optimistic that a solution can be found to the ...
The good news is that President Obama and House Speaker Boehner have been meeting trying to stop the country from going over ...
President Obama continues to push for a tax increase on the top two percent of taxpayers as part of his plan to avoid the fis...
President Obama is standing firm on his proposal that tax rates rise on the richest two percent of Americans.South Dakota Sen...
Another battle is brewing over water in the Missouri-Mississippi river basins. A group of downstream Congressmen have sent a ...
President Obama is likely to hold the estate tax hostage as leverage in the ongoing budget talks with Congress.Iowa Senator C...
Talks in Washington aimed at avoiding the fiscal cliff are continuing, but not going well.President Obama and democrats conti...
Increasing taxes has become the focal point of debate in the early days of the lame duck Congressional session.President Obam...
Iowa Congressman Steve King, a Republican from Kiron, says he looks for a tough fight with President Obama and Democrats over...
Economists claim that allowing the Bush-era tax cuts to expire and drastic, automatic budget cuts to go into effect next year...
As the G-O-P reviews its losses, some prominent Republicans have begun to call for action on immigration reform as a way to m...
Nebraska Senator Mike Johanns says the fight against the federal healthcare overhaul is over...decided by last week’s e...
Representatives and Senators return to Washington this week for the “lame duck” session of Congress. Many issues ...
Republican candidate Deb Fischer soundly defeated Democrat Bob Kerrey in Nebraska’s U.S. Senate race 58 to 41 percent.N...
The Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has released a report on rules proposed by the EPA an...
"Great Theater". That is what Creighton University Economist Ernie Goss is calling what he is hearing from both pre...
Tuesday, Iowa Senator Tom Harkin,past Senate Ag committee chairman outlined his support for President Obama and his ag polici...
The Lynx were honored by President Obama for winning the 2011 WNBA championship yesterday. The president also recognized the ...
Ag groups are concerned about the increasing talk about a trade war with China.This comes after President Obama took action a...
Trade tensions are mounting between the United States and China.Over the weekend President Obama announced the U.S. would be ...
The budget plan presented by Congressman Paul Ryan was not favorable to agriculture and that is a concern to farm groups now ...
Iowa will host the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) annual meeting this week. Iowa Ag Secreta...
The Democratic National Convention begins Tuesday in Charlotte North Carolina. The only real business on the agenda is the re...
A couple preparing for their wedding this Saturday in Sioux City had a few anxious moments after learning that President Obam...
Iowa Renewable Fuel officials delivered a message to President Obama while he was in Iowa on Tuesday. Executive Director Mont...
Seven biofuel groups including Growth Energy have written President Obama highlighting the importance of the Renewable Fuel S...
Renewable Fuels Association leaders are applauding Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney for his energy plan that cal...
South Dakota Farmers Union President Doug Sombke says they have concerns with the naming of budget cutter Paul Ryan as the Re...
President Obama's proposal to extend tax cuts to those earning less than 250-Thousand dollars a year moves to the House o...
The Bush era tax cuts will expire at the end of the year, and Congress is debating how much, if any of the cuts will continue...
Nebraska senators disagree on how serious President Obama is about extending the Bush-era tax cuts.Senator Mike Johanns, a Re...
The nine nations presently involved in the Trans Pacific Partnership talks are meeting in the U.S. this week in San Diego. Ne...
Friday's ruling by the WTO Tribunal says the U.S. COOL Law as its presently implemented treats imported product less favo...
The U.S. Supreme Court today upheld President Obama’s health care overhaul law that requires most Americans to get insu...
A World Trade Organization tribunal is expected to rule tomorrow on the United States Country of Origin Labeling Law. The cas...
Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley says his views on how to treat the children of illegal immigrants have evolved since h...
The House Subcommittee on Agriculture and Rural Development voted to cut $ 19.4 billion in discretionary funding from the...
A jobs report released Friday shook the Stock Market, plunged the Dow Industrials lower and increased worries about the econo...
Novozymes opened a new biofuel plant Wednesday in Blair, Nebraska thanks largely to tax credits for clean energy manufacturin...
President Obama is expected to ask Congress to pass extension of the wind production tax credit while visiting a wind turbine...
The chairman of the Iowa Republican Party's platform committee says the group is intentionally questioning President Obam...
President Obama and G-8 leaders meeting in the United States have unveiled a new alliance for food security and nutrition goa...
House Speaker John Boehner says he’s disappointed President Obama has not begun the process of lobbying Congress to pro...
President Obama created a stir yesterday when he said he supports the right of gay people to get married.South Dakota Democra...
Nebraska Senator Mike Johanns doesn't expect much to get done in Washington for the next few months as the election seaso...
Work will likely soon begin again on finding a new route for the Keystone XL pipeline through Nebraska. The governor has sign...
As Mitt Romney moves closer to wrapping up the republican presidential nomination, the speculation on a vice president increa...
House Budget Chairman Paul Ryun, a Wisconsin Republican has released a budget proposal that would cut $ 5.3 trillion more...
The process on putting together the 2012 farm bill is moving along.That’s according to South Dakota Representative Kris...
President Obama is expected to sign an executive order creating a new government team to make sure China and others play by t...
President Obama has said that universities need to quit “jacking up” tuition costs to students and parents. He ha...
Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline have gathered more than half a million signatures urging Congress to let President Obam...
It looks like the US House of Representatives will again attempt to force a decision on the Keystone XL pipeline. The pay rol...
While President Obama laid out a list of issues in his State of the Union speech, many probably will not see any action this ...
President Obama addressed mostly domestic, economic issues in the State of the Union speech last night.South Dakota Congressw...
Nearly a third of Iowans get some sort of benefit from the state's welfare agency. Chuck Palmer is director of the Iowa Depar...
A coalition of unions and environmental advocacy groups held a news conference in Des Moines to draw attention to the nation'...
