07/09/2019
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"I just want to join my colleagues in underscoring the importance that the next farm bill preserves the nearly $20 billion provided in the Inflation Reduction Act for USDA conservation programs."
"Recently, U.S. Rep. Sean Casten, an Illinois Democrat, and U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat, introduced the Conservation Opportunity and Voluntary Environment Resilience Program (COVER) Act."
"This bipartisan bill would provide mandatory funding to purchase development rights via conservation easements from private and Tribal landowners."
"I am troubled by the fact that there is a common nexus in all those, which is crypto networks that are used to evade anti-money laundering rules."