Washington Report for 11-13-17

By Steve Kopperud

Read this week's headlines below. 

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• House Ways & Means Approves GOP Tax Cut Plan; Senate Unveils its Version of Tax Code Fixes
• Ag Pushes Back on Administration NAFTA Talk; Perdue Announces “Contingency” Plan for Pull-out
• Loss of $2.6 billion, 46,000 Jobs if Grain Trade Disrupted
• Clovis Out, Northey Still Blocked, Vaden Gets Hearing, Doud Gets Caught by from Flake
• Trump’s Pick to Head Council on Environmental Quality Flips on RFS Opinion
• Trump Announces U.S.-China Trade Deals Worth “Hundreds of Billions”
• Trump White Moves to Tighten Reins on U.S.-Cuba Relations
• Perdue Pulls Back Obama Proposed Action on Biotech Regulation
• Pesticide Update
  • Study Show Half of U.S. Food Pesticide Residue Free
  • EC Rejects Glyphosate License Extension; NCA says No Cancer Link
• WHO Says “No” to Livestock/Poultry Antibiotics for Disease Prevention; USDA Scientist, Industry Scoff
• Former House Ag Chair Goodlatte Joins Rush to House Exit