[title size=”1″ content_align=”left” style_type=”underline solid” sep_color=”#000000″ margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” class=”” id=””]Washington Week Ahead[/title][fullwidth background_color=”” background_image=”” background_parallax=”none” enable_mobile=”no” parallax_speed=”0.3″ background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_position=”left top” video_url=”” video_aspect_ratio=”16:9″ video_webm=”” video_mp4=”” video_ogv=”” video_preview_image=”” overlay_color=”” overlay_opacity=”0.5″ video_mute=”yes” video_loop=”yes” fade=”no” border_size=”0px” border_color=”” border_style=”” padding_top=”20″ padding_bottom=”20″ padding_left=”0″ padding_right=”0″ hundred_percent=”no” equal_height_columns=”no” hide_on_mobile=”no” menu_anchor=”” class=”” id=””][fusion_text]Monday, August 3rd 2015
The EPA regulation is aimed primarily at coal-fired electricity generation, which is the source for about 40 percent of the electricity used by Americans and provides hundreds of jobs in rural areas. Butnatural gas is the second largest source of electric power in the United States after coal, as well as the largest cost in manufacturing commercial fertilizer used to grow crops, notes USDA’s Economic Research Service. On Capitol Hill, the Senate is in session this week before heading home for the month-long August recess, while House members are already back in their districts for the break. The upper chamber is unlikely to make progress on country-of-origin labeling (COOL) legislation until September. The House last month voted overwhelmingly to repeal the meat labeling law, but Senate Agriculture Chairman Pat Roberts has run into strong, bipartisan resistance to the idea of full repeal. Other agricultural issues still unfinished in the Senate include reauthorization of school nutrition standards and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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