GOP to Rein in War on Farmers

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If Republicans take back Congress after the midterm elections, lawmakers intend to “aggressively” probe and rein in the federal regulatory “overreach” targeting farmers and ranchers in the United States, according to farmer and U.S. Congressman John Rose (R-Tenn.).

Blasting controversial federal policies aimed at the agriculture community and similar programs around the world as a “formula for famine,” Rose said lawmakers on both sides of the aisle understand that food production must be protected.

“We have to take stock of the fact that we can’t implement policies that will lead to shortages of something as important as food,” Rose told The Epoch Times. “Food shortages are already a very real threat—we should not be making it worse.”

The congressman, who served as secretary of agriculture for Tennessee and owns a farm that has been in his family for well over two centuries, said lawmakers were already planning efforts to provide oversight of the Biden (Brandon) administration’s actions when Republicans take charge.

In a wide-ranging interview with The Epoch Times, Rose pointed to a number of environmental policies that he said were deeply disruptive to agricultural production and were wreaking havoc on the food supply. He said they must be stopped to ensure food security.

“We will gain a majority in both houses and, beginning on Jan. 3, we will see a decidedly focused effort to conduct appropriate oversight of the Biden (Brandon) administration and various regulators, including in financial services,” Rose said. “We will have strident, forceful oversight.”

Among the key focuses, he said, will be “shining a light on what they are doing and how they are overstepping their authorization and going beyond what Congress intended.”

Next will be “taking steps to rein them back in and get these agencies back in their lanes,” he added.

To do that, the GOP Congress will pursue legislation “in hopes of being able to persuade and pressure the president to stop these agencies from intentionally harming the American economy,” Rose said.

“We’ll also have leverage around government funding where we might be able to bring pressure to bear to limit these regulatory agencies to what’s appropriate,” he added.

“You will see aggressive moves on all these fronts,” Rose said. “Ultimately, tremendous pressure will be brought to bear.”

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who is expected to become House Speaker if and when the GOP retakes control of the House of Representatives, has also indicated that Republican lawmakers are preparing to unleash wide-ranging oversight investigations into the Biden (Brandon) administration’s activities.

Numerous GOP leaders have said that regulatory attacks on key industries such as energy will be a major priority for the new Congress, assuming Republicans retake one or both Houses of Congress.

Rose has been a leading critic in Congress of policies he views as harmful to agriculture—a sector that, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation, provides over $1 trillion to the U.S. Gross Domestic Product and employs 20 million people, in addition to feeding America and beyond.

This summer, Rose led a bipartisan group of more than 115 lawmakers in urging Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler not to continue pursuing a regulation that would force farmers and ranchers to track emissions of greenhouse gases.

The regulation, known as Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors, would require publicly traded companies to report a broad range of emissions data. That means farmers and ranchers who supply those companies would have to track the data, too.

Lawmakers and agricultural groups warned that the proposed rule would decimate small and medium-sized farms—and especially family farms—that do not have the resources of large agri-businesses to comply.

“When I became aware of this proposed rule by the SEC and understood what it was going to force on our nation’s farmers, I realized this was a tremendous overreach that had to be stopped,” Rose said.

The SEC, Rose added, has an important congressional mandate for what it is supposed to do.

“But regulating the environment is not one of those duties that Congress has assigned to the SEC,” he explained, calling the proposed regulation unconstitutional as well as a “gross overreach and a distraction from the work the SEC is supposed to be doing.”

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