{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.moran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ID=0C723018-2CB7-4B78-A312-3576E69A2E7F", "VIDEO: Sen. Moran Urges Passage of the Senate Farm Bill & Highlights Agriculture Priorities", "2026-08-07", "2026", "2026-08", "Republican", "Senate", "KS", "Jerry Moran", "M000934", "www.moran.senate.gov", "moran", "https://www.moran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) \u2013 a member of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee \u2013 yesterday joined Eliza Petry on RFD-TV to discuss the importance of passing a Senate Farm Bill. He highlighted a number of Kansas agricultural priorities, including year-round E-15 sales, increased farm loan limits, strengthened trade promotion funding and his amendment to permanently transfer Food for Peace to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).\n\n\u201cThis matters to us, and we\u2019re going to do everything we can to get an end product so we can negotiate with the House and get a Farm Bill to the President,\u201d said Sen. Moran. \u201cI love talking to farmers and ranchers in Kansas. They need certainty, and I encourage producers across the country to contact members of the Agriculture Committee and let them know how important it is to get this bill done.\u201d\n\n\u201cIf you care about rural communities across your states, if you care about your hometown, make sure that we do the things here that give farmers a chance to have another generation of their families or new people come to town and enter agriculture,\u201d concluded Sen. Moran.\n\nDuring yesterday\u2019s Senate Farm Bill markup, Sen. Moran offered his amendment to permanently transfer Food for Peace to USDA, and it was unanimously adopted. The committee plans to resume consideration of the Farm Bill when Congress returns in September.\n\nClick HERE to Watch Sen. Moran\u2019s Full Interview on RFD-TV\n\nOn year-round E-15:\n\n\u201cThis builds upon what happened in the reconciliation bill of last year, in which we dealt with a lot of the safety net and tax issues. This adds a lot of certainty and help to farmers and ranchers across the country. We\u2019ve come together in a way, that particularly with adding E-15 year-round to this bill, it becomes even more important to agricultural producers almost every place across the nation. [\u2026] We are doing what needs to be done to get the votes to pass the Senate. The E-15 provisions have been drafted to keep small refiners satisfied while providing an important benefit for agriculture.\u201d\n\nOn Food for Peace:\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s not controversial, but I\u2019ve been pursuing for a long time now, moving the Food for Peace program, which was addressed by the Trump administration early on. The decision was made that we could move the Food for Peace program for the Department of State \u2013 from USAID \u2013 to the Department of Agriculture. That\u2019s happened on a temporary basis, and I expect my amendment to make permanent that move of Food for Peace to be included in the final package and be supported presumably by both Republicans and Democrats. Certainly, there would be no reason they shouldn\u2019t be supportive of this. We\u2019ve worked closely with them.\u201d\n\nOn increasing farm loan limits:\n\n\u201cI hope that my Democratic colleagues, who I work with constantly in this committee and others, really understand the circumstances that almost every place in the country in agriculture is facing, and that is low commodity prices compared to high input costs. In Kansas in particular, five years preceding this is a drought. So, we\u2019re not really prepared. We don\u2019t have the financial capability of going through another difficult year without this help. [\u2026] Every time a farmer or rancher goes to the bank, they have to demonstrate they have the cash flow to pay back the loan. These government credit programs help farmers survive into another year. I love talking to farmers and ranchers in Kansas. They need certainty, and I encourage producers across the country to contact members of the Agriculture Committee and let them know how important it is to get this bill done.\u201d\n\nOn the need for bipartisan consensus:\n\n\u201cThis is important. This matters to us, and we\u2019re going to do everything we can to get an end product so we can negotiate with the House and get a Farm Bill to the President. [\u2026] When I\u2019m trying to make sure that my hometown of 2,000 people, Plainville, Kansas, has a future, I can only answer that question yes \u2013 there\u2019s a lot of other things, but I can only answer that question yes \u2013 when my farmers and ranchers are successful, and they have the opportunity to return that farm to the next generation of Kansans. That\u2019s what makes rural America. Agriculture makes rural America. And if you care about rural communities across your states, if you care about your hometown, make sure that we do the things here that give farmers a chance to have another generation of their families or new people come to town and enter agriculture.\u201d\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-08-08T05:41:38Z", "2026-08-08T05:43:24Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.moran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/news-releases?ID=0C723018-2CB7-4B78-A312-3576E69A2E7F"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.395197119563818, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}