{"id":41491,"date":"2026-05-04T00:01:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T04:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=41491"},"modified":"2026-05-04T00:58:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T04:58:27","slug":"u-s-senate-ag-committee-chair-to-take-up-republican-farm-bill-passed-in-u-s-house-of-representatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2026\/05\/u-s-senate-ag-committee-chair-to-take-up-republican-farm-bill-passed-in-u-s-house-of-representatives\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Senate Ag Committee Chair To Take Up Republican Farm Bill Passed in U.S. House of Representatives"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>(<em>Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, May 4, 2026)\u00a0Attention shifts to the U.S. Senate after the U.S. House of Representatives last week (April 30) passed a Farm Bill. In a bipartisan vote thought unthinkable just over a month ago when the House Agriculture Committee passed its Farm Bill, Democratic members of Congress, joined by 73 Republicans, stripped from the bill three chemical-industry authored provisions that would have severely weakened pesticide law on a vote of 280 to 142. The final bill,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/119\/bills\/hr7567\/BILLS-119hr7567rh.pdf\"><strong>H.R. 7567<\/strong><\/a>\u2014<em>Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026<\/em>, which is unacceptable to farm, farmworker, food, and environmental advocates, passed the House on a vote of 224 to 200. (See\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/Votes\/2026148?BillNum=H.R.7567\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for the vote tally.)<\/p>\r\n<p>The Chair of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, Senator John Boozman (R-AR) pointed to the House bill as \u201cbipartisan\u201d and a \u201csignificant achievement.\u201d Fourteen Democrats voted for the House bill and three Republicans voted against the legislation, which has been widely referred to as a Republican bill since it was written by Republican lawmakers without input from Democrats. It is not clear whether Sen. Boozman will move ahead with bipartisan negotiations on Senate Farm Bill language. \u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>Beyond Pesticides, along with environmental, farm, farmworker, and consumer groups is calling on <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.everyaction.com\/sIfL7G8lsk6_i_cBAOLSZw2\"><strong>the U.S. Senate to hold the line and reject the House Farm Bill, pass a clean bill that extends the current law, and regroup to build a sustainable agricultural sector that respects farmers, farmworkers, consumers, and the environment.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>The House bill, according to advocates, is so fundamentally flawed that they are asking the Senate to reject it and extend the current law with a \u201cclean bill,\u201d free of all controversial amendments that have been characterized as poison pills. Overall, critics say, the House Farm Bill increases dependency on petrochemical fertilizers (which contribute to escalating toxic pesticide use), ignores hunger (despite a historically large $186 billion cut to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program\/SNAP), dismisses the notion of a fair, responsible, and accessible family farm safety net, and rolls back successful conservation investments.<\/p>\r\n<p><u>The bipartisan group of House members rejected the following pesticide industry provisions that were reported out of the House Agriculture Committee on March 5:<\/u><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><strong>Immunity for chemical companies\u202ffrom liability and failure to warn.<\/strong>\u00a0Prohibits lawsuits by farmers and consumers harmed by pesticides for which manufacturers\u202ffailed to\u202fprovide complete safety warnings (Section 10205);<\/li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Preemption of state and local authority.\u202f<\/strong>Takes away the authority of local governments to protect residents and the local environment from pesticide use with local restrictions (Section 10206); and,<\/li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Exemption of pesticides from reviews to protect water, ecosystems, and endangered species<\/strong>.\u202fRepeals requirements in\u202fnumerous\u202ffederal statutes authorized by Congress over the last 50 years to protect against local pesticide contamination that could\u202fadversely affect waterways, drinking water, federal projects, endangered species, migratory birds, and toxic waste cleanup (Section 10207).<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>The effort in Congress to remove these provisions was led by Reps. Chellie Pingree (D-ME) and Thomas Massie (R-KY). Rep. Anna Paulina\u202fLuna (R-FL) sponsored the successful amendment on the House floor.\u00a0<u>However, it left in the bill provisions that:<\/u><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><strong>Redefine and exempt plant regulators, biostimulants, \u201cinert\u201d ingredients, and genetically engineered materials from proper oversight.<\/strong>\u202fPesticides and related \u201cplant incorporated\u202fprotectants\u201d as listed above would be exempted from the\u202f<em>Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act<\/em>\u202f(FIFRA) registration review requirements, as well as from tolerance setting requirements under the\u202f<em>Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act<\/em>\u202f(FFDCA) (Section 10201);\u202f<\/li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Further weaken and delay safety measures and environmental protections with a requirement for \u201charmonizing\u201d interagency coordination.<\/strong>\u202fThe U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is charged with considering the economic costs of increased risk mitigation measures when up for public comment, further weakening a science-based approach to risk management that considers alternatives. The USDA Office of Pest Management Policy is mandated to coordinate with other federal agencies to consider pesticide use data, economic data of\u202fviable\u202fchemical alternatives, and likely to advance chemical-intensive practices (Section 10202);<\/li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Weaken\u202f<em>Endangered Species Act<\/em>\u202fprotections under new\u202finteragency\u202fworking group regulations.<\/strong>\u202fThe interagency working group will now require the Office of Pest Management Policy to attend, limit meeting requirements to just once a year rather than twice a year, and increase the influence of chemical companies in pesticide registration review decisions before public meetings are held (Section 10203);\u202fand,\u202f<\/li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Diminish the integrity\u202fof the pesticide registration review process.<\/strong>\u202fRepeals Section 711 of the\u202f<em>Pesticide Registration Improvement Act of 2022<\/em>, which mandates that EPA complete\u202finitial\u202fregistration reviews of pesticides by October 1, 2026, striking a blow to scientific integrity and the assurance that active ingredients are adequately assessed before being released into the market (Section 10204).<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>People wanting to voice concern can: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/secure.everyaction.com\/sIfL7G8lsk6_i_cBAOLSZw2\">Ask the U.S. Senate to hold the line and reject the House Farm Bill, pass a clean bill that extends the current law, and regroup to build a sustainable agricultural sector that respects farmers, farmworkers, consumers, and the environment<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/secure.everyaction.com\/sIfL7G8lsk6_i_cBAOLSZw2##anchor\"><em>.<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><u>Letter to U.S. Senators:<\/u>\u00a0<br \/>\r\nThe House-passed Farm Bill threatens the sustainability of the agricultural sector, family farms, food security, and environmental protection. It is fundamentally\u00a0flawed\u00a0and\u00a0its provisions should be rejected.\u00a0Instead, I urge you to advance a clean Farm Bill that extends\u00a0the current law\u00a0to allow time to negotiate truly bipartisan\u00a0legislation.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>Overall, the House\u00a0Farm\u00a0Bill increases dependency on petrochemical fertilizers (which contribute to escalating toxic pesticide use), ignores hunger (despite a historically large\u00a0$187 billion\u00a0cut to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program\/SNAP), dismisses the notion of a fair, responsible, and accessible family farm safety net, and rolls back successful conservation investments.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>The House, with bipartisan support,\u00a0did\u00a0remove several provisions\u00a0on the House floor\u00a0that would have\u00a0eliminated:\u00a0judicial review of chemical manufacturers\u2018 failure to warn about pesticide hazards;\u00a0the\u00a0democratic right of local governments in coordination with states to protect residents from pesticide use; and,\u00a0local site-specific action to ensure protection\u2014the safety of air, water, and land from pesticides under numerous environmental statutes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>However,\u00a0the House Farm Bill includes\u00a0numerous\u00a0egregious\u00a0provisions\u00a0that:\u00a0Redefine and exempt plant regulators,\u202fbiostimulants, \u201cinert\u201d ingredients, and genetically engineered materials from proper oversight.\u202f[Pesticides and related \u201cplant incorporated\u202fprotectants\u201d as listed above would be exempted from the\u202f<em>Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act<\/em>\u202f(FIFRA) registration review requirements, as well as from tolerance setting requirements under the\u202f<em>Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act<\/em>\u202f(FFDCA) (Section 10201).];\u00a0Further weaken and delay safety measures and environmental protections with a requirement for \u201charmonizing\u201d\u00a0interagency coordination.\u202f[The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is charged with considering the economic costs of increased risk mitigation measures when up for public comment, further weakening a science-based approach to risk management that considers alternatives. The USDA Office of Pest Management Policy is mandated to coordinate with other federal agencies to consider pesticide use data, economic data of\u202fviable\u202fchemical alternatives, and likely to advance chemical-intensive practices (Section 10202).];\u00a0Weaken\u202f<em>Endangered Species Act\u202f<\/em>protections under new\u202finteragency\u202fworking group regulations.\u202f[The interagency working group will now require the Office of Pest Management Policy to attend, limit meeting requirements to just once a year rather than twice a year, and increase the influence of chemical companies in pesticide registration review decisions before public meetings are held (Section 10203).];\u202fand, Diminish the integrity\u202fof the pesticide registration review process.\u202f[Repeals Section 711 of the\u202f<em>Pesticide Registration Improvement Act of 2022<\/em>, which mandates that EPA complete\u202finitial\u202fregistration reviews of pesticides by October 1, 2026, striking a blow to scientific integrity and the assurance that active ingredients are adequately assessed before being released into the market (Section 10204).]\u202f\u202f\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>With the current challenges to the farm economy, food security, health, and the environment, please reject the House Farm Bill provisions, adopt a clean extension,\u00a0and develop a meaningful bipartisan proposal\u00a0that honors the\u00a0value of family farms and\u00a0sustainable agriculture.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>Thank you.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p><em>All unattributed positions and opinions in this piece are those of Beyond Pesticides.<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Beyond Pesticides, May 4, 2026)\u00a0Attention shifts to the U.S. Senate after the U.S. House of Representatives last week (April 30) passed a Farm Bill. In a bipartisan vote thought unthinkable just over a month ago when the House Agriculture Committee passed its Farm Bill, Democratic members of Congress, joined by 73 Republicans, stripped from the bill three chemical-industry authored provisions that would have severely weakened pesticide law on a vote of 280 to 142. The final bill,\u00a0H.R. 7567\u2014Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026, which is unacceptable to farm, farmworker, food, and environmental advocates, passed the House on a vote of 224 to 200. (See\u00a0here\u00a0for the vote tally.) The Chair of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee, Senator John Boozman (R-AR) pointed to the House bill as \u201cbipartisan\u201d and a \u201csignificant achievement.\u201d Fourteen Democrats voted for the House bill and three Republicans voted against the legislation, which has been widely referred to as a Republican bill since it was written by Republican lawmakers without input from Democrats. It is not clear whether Sen. 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