Debbie Stabenow News

Climate change and chemical site security rank high on the list of issues TFI is watching in the new year.

Kalamazoo Mayor Bobby Hopewell is meeting with lawmakers in Washington D.C. Wednesday to advocate for the removal of contaminated soil from the Allied Paper landfill in the city's Edison neighborhood.

A Flint man who authorities say threatened to kill three lawmakers from Michigan has been ruled incompetent to stand trial.

The U.S. Senate has begun debate of the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act of 2013, which was passed out of the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Nutrition on May 14.

Stacks of paperwork await members of the House Agriculture Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington, as it meets last Wednesday to consider proposals to the 2013 Farm Bill, including small cuts to the $80 billion-a-year food stamp program in an effort to appease conservatives who say the food aid has become too expensive.

Democrats in the U.S. Senate sent a message to House Republicans Tuesday that the upper chamber won't accept significantly higher cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.

Rural life advocates see a good chance for a delayed farm bill to finally go through Congress before the month of May is over.

The Obama administration said Monday it wants to see more cuts to agriculture subsidies in a massive farm bill moving through the Senate this week.

It's been more than a year and a half since MF Global's collapse froze the funds of more than 30,000 customers.

The new 2013 version of the federal farm bill will be slimmer than before, and with several notable differences.

The most recent version of the near $1 trillion farm bill is on the move again after being held up for a few months in the House at the end of last year.

Politics, agriculture, and the economy were the hot topics on a rainy Delta morning as hundreds gathered for the 78th annual meeting of Delta Council, Friday, May 17, on the campus of Delta State University.

Deciding how America will nourish itself and sustain its farms would seem a top policy priority - yet as the US Farm Bill demonstrates, sustainably grown, healthy food and livable incomes for farmers and workers remain an afterthought in a process controlled almost entirely by agribusiness and a handful of farm-state legislators.

The House and Senate Agriculture Committees laid the groundwork this week for reducing the size of the federal food stamp program, approving farm bills that would shrink food aid and alter the way people qualify for it.

Good afternoon. Later today, the House is set to vote for the 37th time to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and both Democrat and Republican Senate election committees are targeting Michigan candidates and potential candidates today.

Late Wednesday night, the House Agriculture Committee passed a comprehensive, $940 billion farm bill.

Two seemingly common-sense, bipartisan food reforms have gotten mugged on Capitol Hill in recent days.

Rural life advocates see a good chance for a delayed farm bill to finally go through Congress before the month of May is over.

Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May 14, 2013, during the committee's hearing on the Farm Bill, officially known as the Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013.

Central Michigan University political science professors called U.S. Rep. Gary Peters, D-Bloomfield Township, the early favorite to win U.S. Sen.