Help us in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Help us in all of the U.S. territories.
We encourage you to reinvigorate Federal investments into extension activities.
Farmers and ranchers are an integral partner in the fight against climate change.
Recovery continues to be an ongoing process. My farmers and ranchers need tools that not only help them survive but thrive in the face of a ...
If we want our agriculture sector to remain competitive, particularly when operating in an increasingly variable climate, we must bolster th...
These disasters, driven by an increasingly variable climate, pose serious threats to the domestic agricultural industry and the rural commun...
The decision to relocate ERS and NIFA lacks transparency and is not supported by an overwhelming majority of the stakeholders who partner wi...
As the Delegate for the Virgin Islands, I represent the University of the Virgin Islands, a land-grant university, and it has skin in the ga...
Any reforms to USDA's research agencies must have clear benefits to ag research and be conducted in a transparent manner.
This proposal will undermine the integrity of these agencies and their ability to operate, and it was followed by an FY20 Budget Request whi...
Secretary Perdue's claim that the research agencies are better served elsewhere is misconstrued.
We believe that there needs to be a permanent statutory fix that addresses the unfair and disparate treatment all territories face in their ...
We made a difficult decision to deny the referral of this child because we didn't have the local match.
I hope Ms. Muna will be able to tell us what the loss of Medicaid funding will mean to the hospital's ability to deliver services.
But loss of that funding puts healthcare delivery at risk, not just for Medicaid recipients in our islands, but for the population at large.
Obamacare provided some relief--an extra $7.3 billion in temporary Medicaid funding and a permanent change to the match to 45 local/55 Feder...
We are requesting a 100 percent Federal Medicaid matching rate be extended to the U.S. Virgin Islands for 2 additional Federal fiscal years.
And that is woefully inadequate.
