Breaking News! SAF has just confirmed officially that we are taking CAD participants to the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in the White House complex for an exclusive Administration br... Read more
The House of Representatives voted February 14 to reauthorize the (GSP) through December 31, 2020, paving the way for an end to duties on flowers coming into the U.S. from Ecuador. The vote... Read more
The House of Representatives voted February 13 to reauthorize the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) through December 31, 2020, paving the way for an end to duties on flowers coming int... Read more
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Sonny Perdue and the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb this week announced a formal agreement betw... Read more
Welcome New Week In Review Readers
For many of you, this marks the second time you received Week in Review, an e-newsletter focused on SAF’s daily efforts on Capitol Hill to educate and inform Members of Congress and federal... Read more
Representatives from SAF and AmericanHort met last week with officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to discuss issues of mutua... Read more
After deliberating over amendments and debating for several hours, the Senate passed its version of tax reform at nearly 2 a.m. on December 2. The House passed its own tax reform bill on Nov... Read more
House and Senate Take Different Paths to Tax Reform
The Senate and the House are both moving forward with efforts to overhaul the country’s tax code, but the two houses are taking different approaches. The Senate Finance Committee and the Hou... Read more
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is amending its regulations to allow the importation of Phalaenopsis and Cymbidium orchid plants in gr... Read more
A Texas congressman recently introduced a bill that would require U.S. employers to check the work eligibility of all future hires through the E-Verify system — an approach to immigration re... Read more