SAF has been asked to provide input to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for the development of small business forums. The IRS is organizing forums...
Administration Rescission Package Hits Roadblocks
A White House effort to cut previously enacted spending, including that from the Omnibus spending bill signed by President Trump on March 23, has...
SAF Urges Congress To Support Crop Protection
SAF, along with other agricultural groups, has given its support to an effort by Sen. Bob Menedez (D-NJ) who is pressing for increased funding for...
Farm Bill Update
On April 12, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway (R-TX) released his draft text of the 2018 Farm Bill. The Chairman intends to...
NAFTA Deal Possible in Coming Weeks
NAFTA negotiators have made progress after seven rounds of meetings to discuss modernizing the trade agreement, and it appears there will be no...
IRS Restructuring Advances
Twelve bipartisan measures to restructure and reform the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) were approved this week by the House Ways and Means...
CAD Participants to Ask Congress to Support Three Floral Issues
Asking Congress to protect floriculture’s workforce and invest in floral research is what nearly 100 retailers, growers, wholesalers and suppliers...
FNRI Receives Historic $1 Million in Funding
The Floriculture and Nursery Research Initiative (FNRI) has received $1 million in funding through the omnibus spending bill approved by Congress...
SAF Members Notch Another Win
Because members of SAF met and educated their members of Congress during SAF’s Congressional Action Days, Congress has included significant support...
Stories from Capitol Hill: SAF Members Meet, Greet and Educate Lawmakers
Congressman Bob Goodlatte (R-Virginia-6) does not represent Mike Mooney. In fact, Goodlatte, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee,...
APHIS Finalizes Rule For Imported Plants for Planting
SAF has learned that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) will be publishing a rule on Monday, March 19th that will have a large...
SAF Members Take to Congress – and the White House – During CAD
More than 90 Society of American Florists members representing all industry segments, three countries, 25 states and the District of Columbia,...
Remember to Complete Your CAD Surveys
Thanks to all SAF members who took time from their schedules to attend SAF’s Congressional Action Days this week. As Kate Penn noted yesterday in an...
Watch SAF Lobbyists Explain CAD ‘Asks’ on Facebook Live
Coming to the Society of American Florists’ Congressional Action Days in March and wondering what exactly the trade association does for the...
NAFTA Negotiations Continue
The seventh round of the NAFTA negotiations are taking place this week in Mexico City. U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, House Ways and...