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- Senate Passes Leahy Amendment to Repeal Anti-Organic Rider
- WASHINGTON, April 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The U.S. Senate Thursday night voted to repeal a special-interest rider enacted in February that has threatened to undermine the six-month-old national organic standards and labeling program run by the U.S. DepartmenWASHINGTON, April 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The U.S. Senate Thursday night voted to...
- Research articles 2003-04-04
- Senate May Turn Against Regulatory Accounting and Right-to-Know Rider.
- A REGULATORY ACCOUNTING and right-to-know amendment attached to a Senate appropriations bill in July is being targeted for removal by the bipartisan leaders of the House committee with primary jurisdiction over regulatory reform legislation. A REGULATORY ACCOUNTING...
- Research articles 1998-09-21
- Leahy-Snowe Bill to Repeal Anti-Organic Rider; 52 Cosponsorships in 3 Days Sign of Bill's Broad Bipartisan Support
- WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Organic Restoration Act (S.457), introduced on Wednesday by Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), now has 52 Senate cosponsors -- more than half of the Senate. The bill would repeal a rider inWASHINGTON, Feb. 28 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Organic...
- Research articles 2003-02-28
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- House and Senate Democrats hope to close "organic loophole" in legislation - News Briefs - new U.S. organic food rules - Brief Article
- The leaders of a House-Senate campaign to close a newly created loophole in U.S. organic food rules said on last week they might attach a repeal to a must-pass bill speeding through Congress in the next few weeks. Under the loophole, approved last month by Congress as part of an...
- Research articles 2003-03-24
- Organics groups differ over standards
- Heated debate over an amendment and a rider to the 2006 Agriculture Appropriations Bill has sparked a rift in the organics community.The amendment, sponsored by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and passed by the U.S. Senate Sept. 22, is a compromise after an Organic Trade Association rider calling for changes to...
- Research articles 2005-11-01
- The Wilderness Society Statement on the Craig/Domenici Forest Rider
- WASHINGTON, Sept. 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Following is a statement by William H. Meadows, President of The Wilderness Society, on the Craig/Domenici Forest rider: Despite its pretensions, the rider introduced in the Senate today by Sens. Craig and Domenici has nothing to do with protecting people from wildfires, and everything...
- Research articles 2002-09-10
- In the capital
- Senate Adds Prayer Rider To Juvenile Justice Bill The U.S. Senate has approved a rider affirming prayer and religious symbols as elements of memorials at public schools where anyone has been slain. Sen. Wayne Allard (R-Colo.) introduced the measure in the wake of the school shootings in Littleton, Colo. Co-sponsored...
- Research articles 1999-06-01
- 2004—The legislative endgame for the freight railroads and shortlines
- As I write this, U.S. House and Senate conferees have been appointed to create a new six-year highway and transit spending bill, nicknamed TEALU in the House and SAFETEA in the Senate. The Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee are about to go into conference on...
- Research articles 2004-07-01
- Nuclear Waste Reclassification Plan Approved by Senate Panel
- WASHINGTON, DC ENS ? The Senate Armed Services committee has added a rider to the $422 billion fiscal year 2005 Department of Defense authorization bill that will allow the U.S. Energy Department to reclassify millions of gallons of high level nuclear waste at South Carolina's Savannah River site as less...
- Research articles 2004-05-10
- Leahy Organic Restoration Act Passes Congress as Amendment to Appropriations Bill; Restores Strict Organic Standards
- WASHINGTON, April 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The U.S. House and Senate over the weekend repealed a special-interest rider enacted in February that has threatened to undermine the seven-month-old national organic standards and labeling program run by the U.S. DWASHINGTON, April 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The U.S. House and Senate over...
- Research articles 2003-04-14
- American Electric Power Co., Inc. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Thank you. [Operator Instructions]. And our first question is from Greg Gordon from Citigroup. Please go ahead. Greg Gordon - Citigroup Thanks. Would you mind talking in a little bit more detail about what your next steps will be in determining whether...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-25
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