By: Larry Lee of Brownfield AG News Wisconsin’s Governor has proclaimed Sunday, October 18th as Wisconsin Hemp Day. The Badger State was the first in the nation to unanimously pass a hemp pilot program following the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill, and in a few short years, the state has seen grower and processor licenses increase five-fold to more than 19-hundred licensees. Wisconsin Hemp Alliance President Rob Richard says Wisconsin has an incredible bi-partisan group of leaders at the state and...
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By: Wisconsin AG Connection The state's largest farm organization has recognized six federal lawmakers as 'Friends of the Farm Bureau' based on their advocacy for agriculture during the previous congressional session. Board members of the Wisconsin Farm Bureau say U.S. Senators Ron Johnson and Tammy Baldwin, along with Reps. Ron Kind, Mike Gallagher, Glenn Grothman and Bryan Steil met the requirements for the award. "The recipients of the Friend of Farm Bureau award have supported policies or ta...
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By: Skylar Jeremias of the Center for Biosimilars Despite the United States have a lower number of biosimilar approvals and launches throughout 2020, regulators have not slowed down in trying to expand biosimilar utilization as a way to lower costs and increase access to care for patients. New Legislation In early September, Representative Glenn Grothman, R-Wisconsin, introduced in Congress a bill that would waive interchangeability requirements for biosimilar insulins. Current FDA guidance says...
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By: Brittany Berstein of the National Review A group of House Republicans led by Representative Jim Banks (R., Ind.) on Friday called on attorney general William Barr to investigate a recent rise in anti-Catholic hate crimes. There have been 70 instances of anti-Catholic violence in North America this year — with 57 crimes being reported since May alone — according to a letter sent to the attorney general by Banks and 15 other House Republicans. By contrast, in all of 2018, the most recent year ...
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By: Scott Douglas Jacobsen of News Intervention The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom spoke to the release of A Dao, a pastor with the Montagnard Evangelical Church of Christ. In Vietnam, he was arrested on August 18, 2016 when returning from a conferencing covering Eat Timorese religious freedom. USCIRF Commissioner James W. Carr said, "I am delighted that Pastor A Dao is free, even as I lament the fact that prison robbed him of four years of his life." Carr went on to...
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By: Leah MarieAnn Klett for the Christian Post A Vietnamese pastor imprisoned for advocating for religious freedom has finally been released after spending over four years in prison, drawing praise from the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. On Sept. 18, USCIRF announced that A Dao, a pastor of the Montagnard Evangelical Church of Christ, had been released from prison. Dao was arrested in 2016 while on his way to visit some members of his church after attending a confer...
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By: Congressman Mike Gallagher Press Release GREEN BAY, WI — Rep. Mike Gallagher (WI-08) today led members of the Wisconsin delegation in calling on the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Sonny Perdue, and the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Alex Azar, to reconsider dietary guidelines that prohibit full-fat dairy products from being included in federal programs, such as school lunch programs. The lawmakers wrote, "Full-fat dairy products ...
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By: Heather Mac Donald for the Wall Street Journal George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis has revived the Obama-era narrative that law enforcement is endemically racist. On Friday, Barack Obama tweeted that for millions of black Americans, being treated differently by the criminal justice system on account of race is “tragically, painfully, maddeningly ‘normal.’ ” Mr. Obama called on the police and the public to create a “new normal,” in which bigotry no longer “infects our institutions and our hea...
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By: Dominick Mastrangelo for The Washington Examiner Sen. Marsha Blackburn urged the National Basketball Association to use profits from the league's relationship with China to create a foundation dedicated to protecting human rights around the world. "If Adam Silver does not extricate himself from the Chinese Communist Party, then the NBA is going to become the National Beijing Association in about 10 years," Blackburn said in a video posted to her Twitter account on Wednesday. Blackburn, one o...
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By: EPA Press Release -- Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that the Shoreline area of Sheboygan County is now meeting the 2008 federal air quality standards for ground-level ozone, which means cleaner and healthier air for Wisconsin residents. “This is one more tangible sign that air quality is improving across America,” said EPA Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation Anne (Idsal) Austin. “Strong state, local and federal partner...
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