Last week, the House rejected the Farm Bill (officially known as H.R. 2, the Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018) on a vote of 198 to 213. Significantly, the reason it was voted down wasn’... Read more
Asking Congress to protect floriculture’s workforce and invest in floral research is what nearly 100 retailers, growers, wholesalers and suppliers from across the country will do on behalf o... Read more
When President Trump announced in September of last year that he would end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) in March of 2018, he set in motion a debate on immigration policy... Read more
Last year, Congress passed a short-term spending bill to keep the government running through January 19. Without the approval of new legislation to fund federal operations, the government w... Read more
When 119 growers, wholesalers, retailers and suppliers gathered last week in Washington, D.C., for SAF’s 37th Annual Congressional Action Days (CAD), they received some straightforward advic... Read more
With a new administration in the White House, a new Congress on Capitol Hill, and a number of floral industry-related issues in national headlines, members of the Society of American Florist... Read more
In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory, Washington is trying to make sense of a new, unexpected and unpredictable political world. Looking at what might happen in the first 100 days of the Tr... Read more
A new partnership between the Society of American Florists (SAF) and Cornerstone Government Affairs ensures that SAF will continue its highly effective work advocating for issues that affect... Read more
Court Rules Against President Obama’s 2014 Immigration Actions
The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the Obama Administration on Nov. 9, preventing the administration from implementing its sweeping November 2014 actions, and setting up the... Read more
On Tuesday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling blocking the Obama Administration from implementing its new immigration policies, and allowing Texas and 25 other s... Read more