Land Trust Alliance reacts to release of House and Senate Farm Bill summaries
This week, House Agriculture Committee Chair GT Thompson (R-Pa.) and Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) released title-by-title summaries of their respective versions of the Farm Bill. The following statement on the release of those summaries can be attributed to Lori Faeth, senior director of government relations at the Land Trust Alliance:
The Land Trust Alliance applauds House Agriculture Committee Chair GT Thompson (R-Pa.) and Senate Agriculture Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) for releasing summaries of their respective versions of the Farm Bill. We are pleased to see many of the Land Trust Alliance Farm Bill priorities reflected in the summaries, which will enable farmers, ranchers and foresters to keep these critical working lands in family hands. We are grateful to Senator Stabenow and Representative Thompson for their leadership, and we urge Congress to move forward in a bipartisan, bicameral manner to pass the Farm Bill this year.
About the Land Trust Alliance
Founded in 1982, the Land Trust Alliance is a national land conservation organization working to save the places people need and love by empowering and mobilizing land trusts in communities across America to conserve land for the benefit of all. The Alliance represents approximately 1,000 member land trusts and affiliates supported by more than 250,000 volunteers and 6.3 million members nationwide. The Alliance is based in Washington, D.C., with staff working in communities across the U.S.