{"id":65360,"date":"2019-10-31T15:51:23","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T15:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/\/?p=65360"},"modified":"2019-10-31T15:51:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T15:51:34","slug":"policy-updates-and-issue-news-october-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/policy-updates-and-issue-news-october-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Policy Updates and Issue News October 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\" data-tadv-p=\"keep\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-28258\" src=\"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/viewfromthehill-1024x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/viewfromthehill-1024x188.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/viewfromthehill-300x55.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/viewfromthehill-768x141.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/viewfromthehill-1200x220.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/h3>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 36px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 100%; background-color: #d9aa1c; text-align: center; height: 36px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Grange Fly-In and Campaign for President<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%; text-align: left;\">\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<p>Mark your calendar for February 7-9, 2020 to come to New Hampshire and participate in the \u201cFirst in the Nation\u201d presidential primary.\u00a0 As has become a National Grange tradition, we will take the Grange Fly-In on the road to work on presidential campaigns of your choice the weekend prior to the first national primary balloting on Tuesday in New Hampshire. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We will visit the historic N.H. state capital building in Concord, work on campaigns in Manchester, visit the headquarters for national and international media covering the candidates and campaigns, and look for opportunities to rub shoulders with the next President of the United States.\u00a0 In 2016, a major portion of participants were high school and college students, so grab your student and hold the dates of February 7-9.\u00a0 Watch for hotel reservations and additional information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 36px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 100%; background-color: #d9aa1c; text-align: center; height: 36px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Agriculture and Food<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<h3>Long-Awaited Hemp Rules<\/h3>\n<p>Everyone in the hemp chain from grower to processor to consumer has been anxiously waiting for the USDA regulations governing industrial hemp that were announced October 29.\u00a0 These regulations will govern the approval of plans submitted by states and Indian tribes for the domestic production of hemp by licensed growers.\u00a0 \u00a0The rule lays out procedures for tracking land where hemp is grown, testing concentration levels of THC (the psychoactive ingredient), disposal of non-compliant plants, and sharing information with law enforcement.\u00a0 Interested growers should contact their state department of agriculture for a license.\u00a0 In the meantime, growers of the 2019 hemp crop are struggling to find sufficient processing capacity.<\/p>\n<h3>Good Ozone News<\/h3>\n<p>The hole in the Earth\u2019s ozone layer has shrunk to the smallest size on record since it was discovered in 1982, according to scientists at NASA.\u00a0 The hole that naturally grows and shrinks every year due to temperatures in the Artic is determined to be a normal yearly phenomenon related to the ban on ozone-harming chemicals and not related to climate change.<\/p>\n<h3>Farm Finances Deteriorate<\/h3>\n<p>The Federal Reserve Bank says farm conditions continue to deteriorate across the country because of bad weather, weak commodity prices and trade disruptions.\u00a0\u00a0 The upper Midwest seems to have suffered most where in addition to low prices, crop yields could decrease 10-20 percent.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Profile of New and Beginning Farmers<\/h3>\n<p>USDA\u2019s latest overview report of beginning farms and farmers finds:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Beginning farmers are more likely to rely on off-farm income<\/li>\n<li>They are generally smaller and younger than established farms<\/li>\n<li>Beginning farmers have higher debt-to-asset ratios, are more likely to receive government payments, and to receive financing from FSA<\/li>\n<li>They tend to specialize in beef cattle and row crops.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Grange Supports Research<\/h3>\n<p>The National Grange continues to urge Congress to pass the America Grows Act, S.2458 and H.R 4174 introduced by Senator Durbin (D-IL) and Representative Bustos (D-IL).\u00a0 These bills authorize a 5 percent annual increase in USDA research funding for the next 5 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 36px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 100%; background-color: #d9aa1c; text-align: center; height: 36px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Health Care<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<h3>Health Care Moves to Center Stage<\/h3>\n<p>At both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue and most of the space between, drug prices, surprise medical bills, drug rebates, imported drugs,\u00a0 copays, premiums, Part D, Part B, Medicare for some and Medicare for all is Washington\u2019s elephant-in-the-room political footfall this Fall.\u00a0 The President has a plan, the Senate Finance Committee has a plan and House Speaker Pelosi has a plan.\u00a0 There are good and bad sections of all these plans, but they\u2019re far apart philosophically.\u00a0 Compromise is now a foreign language in Washington so a near-term end game is difficult to see.\u00a0 The National Grange will continue to fight for the good of patients as these plans unfold.<\/p>\n<h3>Patient First?<\/h3>\n<p>The National Grange joined the Academy of Physicians in Clinical Research in urging Congress to restore the patient as the central focus of their health care efforts.\u00a0 The Office of Inspector General at HHS found that in 2017, Part D beneficiaries experienced 84 million rejections when they tried to fill a prescription, but 73% of these denials were wholly or partially overturned when appealed.\u00a0 Unfortunately for patients with progressive, degenerative conditions the disease advances unchecked during the weeks or months the insurer drags out the appeal only to acknowledge the prescription should have been filled in the first place.<\/p>\n<h3>What About the Pay-For?<\/h3>\n<p>The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget is a nonpartisan, nonprofit group, former members of Congress, former Cabinet officials, economists and other professionals committed to educating the public on issues with significant fiscal policy impact.\u00a0 The Committee found Medicare for All could be financed by largely unrealistic options such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A 32%payroll tax<\/li>\n<li>A 25% income surtax<\/li>\n<li>A 42% value-added tax<\/li>\n<li>More than doubling individual and corporate tax rates<\/li>\n<li>An 80% reduction in non-health federal spending<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u201cCadillac Tax\u201d Repeal<\/h3>\n<p>The National Grange is urging Senators to permanently repeal the 40% \u201cCadillac Tax\u201d on employer sponsored health coverage.\u00a0 The bill, S.684, Middle Class Health Benefits Tax Repeal Act of 2019 has 63 cosponsors in the Senate.\u00a0 The House passed a similar measure 419-6.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 36px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 100%; background-color: #d9aa1c; text-align: center; height: 36px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Immigration\/AG Workforce<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<p>Representatives Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) and Dan Newhouse (R-WA) introduced their bipartisan Farm Workforce Modernization Act to overhaul agriculture labor programs on October 30.\u00a0 The Ag Workforce Coalition worked with the sponsors on the legislation. \u00a0The Act would allow ag workers to earn legal status, limit ag worker wage fluctuations, increase access to green cards, authorize year-round workers and establish a mandatory E-Verify system for ag workers.<\/p>\n<p>Backing for the bill includes the United Farm Workers and most ag groups. The National Grange will work hard to get an ag worker bill through Congress and the White House.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 36px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 100%; background-color: #d9aa1c; text-align: center; height: 36px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Telecommunications<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<h3>STELAR Reauthorization<\/h3>\n<p>Approximately 870,000 Americans are not served by major broadcast networks such as ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox.\u00a0\u00a0 The Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act Reauthorization (STELAR) Act protects consumers by encouraging broadcasters to negotiate in good faith with satellite providers for national, regional and local programming.\u00a0 The National Grange is urging Congress to renew this important legislation to allow isolated rural areas to continue receiving pertinent and affordable programming.<\/p>\n<h3>Support for Lifeline Voice Service<\/h3>\n<p>National Grange is asking Senators to weigh in with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to urge the FCC to rethink their plans to eliminate full support for voice service until the FCC concludes its 2021 Lifeline Study. The FCC plans to drop support for voice services on December 31. \u00a0A whopping 42 percent of Lifeline customers subscribe to plans that qualify based on their voice service offering.<\/p>\n<h3>Support for USDA ReConnect Program<\/h3>\n<p>National Grange joined multiple rural service providers to urge the leadership of the Senate Appropriations Committee to include $605 million in their Agriculture Appropriations Bill for the UDSA Broadband ReConnect Program.\u00a0 The House bill does include $605 million for ReConnect.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 36px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 100%; background-color: #d9aa1c; text-align: center; height: 36px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Trade<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<h3>China Trade War Continues with Hope<\/h3>\n<p>By all accounts U.S. and Chinese negotiators plan to finish \u201cphase one\u201d of their trade deal by mid-November.\u00a0 The Administration maintains the deal includes Chinese pledges to purchase $40-$50 billion in U.S. agriculture commodities annually.\u00a0 The agriculture community is guardedly optimistic \u201cphase one\u201d can come to fruition but is anxiously awaiting final details.\u00a0 Analysts predict additional phases of the deal that lift tariffs and solve issues of technology and intellectual property are much more difficult to negotiate and will take much longer.<\/p>\n<h3>USMCA Close Yet so Far<\/h3>\n<p>The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) is set to replace the North American Free trade Agreement (NAFTA).\u00a0 USMCA has wide bipartisan backing along with industry and labor support, but a few members of Congress keep moving the goal posts.\u00a0 Mexico has already ratified the agreement and Canada has committed to complete their ratification process as soon as the U.S. House of Representatives brings it up for a vote.\u00a0 A vote by Thanksgiving is still possible.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 36px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 100%; background-color: #d9aa1c; text-align: center; height: 36px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Perspective<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<table style=\"height: 209px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 35.5667px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-62264\" src=\"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/left_quote.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"44\" height=\"42\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 483.667px;\"><em>None so empty of grace as he that thinks he is full. ~<strong>\u00a0 Thomas Watson<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 35.5667px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-62265 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/right_quote.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"44\" height=\"42\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 59px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 35.5667px; height: 59px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-62264\" src=\"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/left_quote.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"44\" height=\"42\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 483.667px; height: 59px;\"><em>Grace follows us even when we are going the wrong way.\u00a0 ~\u00a0<strong> Ricky Maye<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 35.5667px; height: 59px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-62265 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/right_quote.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"44\" height=\"42\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 30px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 35.5667px; height: 30px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-62264\" src=\"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/left_quote.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"44\" height=\"42\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 483.667px; height: 30px;\"><em>Man is born broken.\u00a0 He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.\u00a0 ~\u00a0 <strong>Eugene O\u2019Neill<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 35.5667px; height: 30px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-62265 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/right_quote.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"44\" height=\"42\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 30px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 35.5667px; height: 30px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-62264\" src=\"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/left_quote.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"44\" height=\"42\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 483.667px; height: 30px;\"><em>Our worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God\u2019s grace.\u00a0 And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God\u2019s grace.\u00a0 ~\u00a0 \u00a0<strong>Jerry Bridges<\/strong><\/em><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-62265 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/right_quote.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"44\" height=\"42\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 35.5667px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-62264\" src=\"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/left_quote.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"44\" height=\"42\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 483.667px;\"><em> Courage is grace under pressure.\u00a0 ~\u00a0 <strong>Earnest Hemingway <\/strong><\/em><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-62265 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/right_quote.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"44\" height=\"42\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grange Fly-In and Campaign for President Mark your calendar for February 7-9, 2020 to come to New Hampshire and participate in the \u201cFirst in the Nation\u201d presidential primary.\u00a0 As has become a National Grange tradition, we will take the Grange Fly-In on the road to work on presidential campaigns of your choice the weekend prior &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vps70863.inmotionhosting.com\/~nationalgrange\/policy-updates-and-issue-news-october-2019\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Policy Updates and Issue News October 2019&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy-updatesnews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - 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