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	<title>Political Blotter &#187; Agriculture</title>
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		<title>Senators target tobacco crop insurance subsidy</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2013/05/21/senators-target-tobacco-crop-insurance-subsidy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 13:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dianne Feinstein]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taxpayer-subsidized crop insurance for tobacco production would be eliminated under a farm-bill amendment introduced Monday by U.S. Sens. Dianne Feinstein and John McCain. The senators say their amendment would save $333 million over the next decade, and direct all savings to be used to reduce the federal budget deficit. Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Debbie Stabenow, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pelosi names Garamendi to Agriculture Committee</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/11/27/pelosi-names-garamendi-to-agriculture-committee/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 00:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dennis Cardoza]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi today named Rep. John Garamendi to the House Agriculture Committee for the final few weeks of this 112th Congress, even as the House might take up a big farm bill during the lame-duck session. Pelosi, D-San Francisco, and Garamendi, D-Fairfield, expect approval of the assignment at Wednesday’s House Democratic Caucus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ricky Gill wins Farm Bureau endorsement</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/09/12/ricky-gill-wins-farm-bureau-endorsement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/09/12/ricky-gill-wins-farm-bureau-endorsement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 06:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[water]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ricky Gill, the Lodi Republican challenging Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Stockton, in the newly drawn 9th Congressional District, announced today that he’s been endorsed by the California Farm Bureau Federation. “Ricky Gill has grown up in the Central Valley and has firsthand experience in small business, dealing with regulations and encouraging the expansion of trade to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GMO labeling campaign says it&#8217;s ballot-bound</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/05/01/gmo-labeling-campaign-says-its-ballot-bound/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/05/01/gmo-labeling-campaign-says-its-ballot-bound/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 15:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/?p=19618</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Activists say they’ll submit more than enough signatures tomorrow to put on November’s ballot California’s first measure to require labeling of genetically engineered food. The California Right to Know campaign is planning victory rallies at 11 a.m. Wednesday, May 2 in San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles and San Diego as mothers deliver the petitions in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stark helps lead move against ethanol subsidies</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/12/09/stark-helps-lead-move-against-ethanol-subsidies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/12/09/stark-helps-lead-move-against-ethanol-subsidies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[energy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Boehner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nancy Pelosi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pete Stark]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Pete Stark, D-Fremont, helped spearhead a bipartisan letter sent today to House leaders urging them to let taxpayer-funded ethanol subsidies expire this year. The letter was signed by 30 Democrats – including Stark, George Miller, Jackie Speier, Mike Honda and Zoe Lofgren – as well as by 37 Republicans, and was directed to House [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dems can&#8217;t stop GOP ag spending bill</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/06/16/dems-cant-stop-gop-ag-spending-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/06/16/dems-cant-stop-gop-ag-spending-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Miller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Garamendi]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The House today voted 217-203 to pass H.R. 2112, the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food &#038; Drug Administration and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 2012, which Democrats say would cut 400,000 to 550,000 eligible low-income women and young children from the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) program. No Democrats supported the bill; 19 Republicans opposed it. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawmakers urge you to &#8216;eat local&#8217; on Sundays</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/03/22/lawmakers-urge-you-to-eat-local-on-sundays/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/03/22/lawmakers-urge-you-to-eat-local-on-sundays/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 22:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fiona Ma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ACR 42]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[buy California grown]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cathleen Galgiani]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some California lawmakers want you to light a fire under the state’s economy by “eating local.” Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, D-San Francisco; Assembly Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Cathleen Galgiani, D-Livingston; and Foster Farms marketing director Ira Brill will be joined by other state lawmakers and agricultural leaders at a news conference tomorrow morning on the State Capitol’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Piepho, Gioia say, &#8216;Eat (local) fruits and veggies&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2008/03/31/piepho-gioia-say-eat-local-fruits-and-veggies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2008/03/31/piepho-gioia-say-eat-local-fruits-and-veggies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 23:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contra Costa County]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Contra Costa Board of Supervisors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guy Houston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Nejedly Piepho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obesity prevention]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Contra Costa County Supervisors Mary Nejedly Piepho of Discovery Bay and John Gioia of Richmond will introduce Tuesday a new ordinance called &#8220;Buy Fresh, Buy Local.&#8221; They say it&#8217;s a &#8220;farming sustainability program connecting East County farmers and their locally grown produce with West County communities and urban schools.&#8221; Piepho, Gioia and representatives from the [...]]]></description>
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