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Feb 3, 2021 12:25 PM
House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Congressman Dusty Johnson (R-SD) and 83 House Republicans to introduce the Keystone XL Pipeline Construction and Jobs Preservation Act. This legislation authorizes the construction and operation of the Keystone XL Pipeline and declares that a Presidential permit is not required. This legislation follows President Biden’s decision to rescind the border crossing permit.
“President Biden has initiated an all-out assault on American jobs, starting with his day-one decision to cancel the Keystone Pipeline. President Biden had a choice of whether he would support our recent progress toward American energy independence, lower household energy costs, and the creation of well-paying American jobs, and instead he sold out those hard-working families to appease the most radical left base of his party. Unfortunately, he chose to fire thousand
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Southwest Iowa producer Dennis Liljedahl is the new President for the Iowa Pork Producers Association. He says two key issues his group is focused on is battling foreign animal diseases and getting policy instituted that supports trade.
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He says IPPA’s major foreign animal disease concern is making sure they can keep African Swine Fever out of the U.S.
Liljedahl says producers saw the effects of the COVID 19 pandemic that led to the backlog at processing plants so he’s pleased Congressman Dusty Johnson has introduced the DIRECT Act to allow the sale of state inspected meat across state lines.
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South Dakota Congressman Dusty Johnson has introduced the Direct Interstate Retail Exemption For Certain Transactions or DIRECT ACT. This measure allows state inspected meat to be sold across state lines through e-commerce. South Dakota rancher and National Cattlemen’s Beef Association’s Policy Chair Todd Wilkinson of DeSmet says the DIRECT ACT is badly needed due to the pandemic and the backlog of animals at processing plants.
He’s hoping logic will prevail with this bill and that it can get across the finish line in both the House and Senate and signed by President Biden.
-The Hagstrom Report
Reps. Dusty Johnson, R-S.D., and Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, on Thursday introduced the Direct Interstate Retail Exemption for Certain Transactions (DIRECT) Act of 2021, which would allow retail quantities of meat processed under state-inspection to be sold across state lines through e-commerce, providing beef producers and local processors alike with more options to market direct-to-consumers, Johnson said in a news release.
“Today, a few large players have too much control over our meat supply chains. In many states, state meat inspection is every bit as good as federal meat inspection,” said Johnson, a member of the House Agriculture Committee.