113th Congress
House Committee Mark Up Gives FDA $100 Million Boost
By Jim Dickinson | Medical Device and Diagnostic Industry | July 12, 2013
A House Appropriations Committee mark up in June would give FDA almost $100 million more in fiscal year 2014 than the current sequester-imposed budget authority. Under the proposed legislation adopted by the committee, FDA’s appropriated funding would be about $22 million below the agency’s 2012 funding level of $2.507 billion.
House splits nutrition title out of farm bill; farm-only bill passes 216-208
By Susan Crowell | Farm and Dairy | July 12, 2013
WASHINGTON - After suffering a rather stinging defeat the first time the farm bill came to the House floor for a vote, House Republicans regrouped and bowed to pressure to ungroup the federal food and nutrition programs from the farm legislation.
Aderholt Supports the FARRM Act
Washington, D.C. — Congressman Robert Aderholt (AL-04) released the following statement today after H.R. 2642, the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management (FARRM) Act of 2013, passed in the United States House of Representatives.
County receiving grant for airport land acquisition
By Ray Stansell | Clay Times Journal | July 11, 2013
The House Of Representatives Members Most Likely To Back Immigration Reform
By Aaron Bycoffe and Elise Foley | Huffington Post | July 9, 2013
Doormaker keeps opportunity open: Small Alabama firm challenges federal bureaucracy and wins
By Mary Orndorff Troyan | Montgomery Advertiser | July 8, 2013
WASHINGTON — Owners of a small Alabama company could have thrown up their hands in defeat after learning that a federal rule on energy efficiency wouldn’t allow the automated door they had invented for walk-in coolers.
U.S. senators to observe socio-political situation in Azerbaijan
Azernews | July 4, 2013
A delegation headed by U.S. Senator Roger Wicker is in Baku as part of a visit to the region, the U.S. Embassy in Azerbaijan told Trend on July 3.
The delegation consists of Helsinki Commission Co-Chairman Christopher Smith, Congressman Robert Aderholt and others.
U.S. Congress delegation arrives in Azerbaijan
By Victoria Dementyeva | Azeri-Press Agency | July 3, 2013
Baku - APA. The delegation of the U.S. congressmen and senators has arrived in Azerbaijan.
Ignoring immigration reform
Florence Times Daily | July 3, 2013
By ignoring immigration reform, House Republicans are hurting both their party and their country.
America’s reputation as a great melting pot of diversity is not exactly reflected in Republican members of the House of Representatives.