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Goodlatte AG Act encounters committee delay
Congressman Bob Goodlatte’s Agricultural Guestworker Act has been introduced in the House, but a dairy group spokesman says there has been a delay in the next step.
The House Judiciary Committee Chairman’s plan to create an improved ag visa program was introduced as planned Tuesday, but Chris Galen from National Milk Producers Federation tells Brownfield it did not go to the Judiciary Committee for markups Wednesday as planned. “We were expecting that not only would the Goodlatte Ag Guestworker Act be introduced this week, but then the House Judiciary Committee would take action on it immediately and that effort, that hearing has been postponed.”
He says the important first step of introducing the bill is done.
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