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BAILEY FISHER (THUMM)
PENNSYLVANIA FARM BUREAU · CAMP HILL, PA · registered since 2024
Registered · LDAActive
At a glance
Registered since
2024
Senate LDA system
Clients
1
last 3 years
Filings
4
7 agencies contacted
Activity
filings by quarter
Works on
Agriculture 4Animals 4Budget/Appropriations 4Chemicals/Chemical Industry 4Clean Air and Water (quality) 4Economics/Economic Development 4Education 4Energy/Nuclear 4Environment/Superfund 4Food Industry (safety, labeling, etc.) 4Foreign Relations 4Fuel/Gas/Oil 4Immigration 4Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace 4Natural Resources 4Railroads 4Small Business 4Taxation/Internal Revenue Code 4Telecommunications 4Trade (domestic/foreign) 4Transportation 4
Specific issues
- General advocacy for lowering gas and diesel (on and off road) prices. - Worked on a year-round legislative fix to E15.
- General advocacy to reduce inflation and agricultural input costs, especially for small businesses and family farms. - Signed onto coalition letter to House and Senate Ag Chairs explaining how record high input costs are impacting operations and how crop protection tools are necessary.
ASKED TO OPPOSE THE FOLLOWING: - - S.1016/H.R.1840, the Agriculture Resilience Act, which would aim to reduce agriculture emissions by 50% before 2030 and to achieve net zero emissions by 2040. - EPA's rule (Docket #: EPA-HQ-OLEM-2019-0341) to designate PFOA and PFOS under the CERLA law or otherwise known as the Superfund law. OTHER: - General advocacy promoting farmers and ranchers' conservation efforts on ag operations as a way to express that more environmental regulations in production ag is not necessary.
ASKED TO SUPPORT THE FOLLOWING: - H.R. 1, the Lower Energy Costs Act, which would address high energy costs by increasing the production of American energy and reducing regulatory burdens through comprehensive permitting reform.
ASKED TO SUPPORT THE FOLLOWING: - H.R.3580, the Restore the CSP Act, which would reauthorize the USDA-National Resource Conservation Services Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP) back to 2014 Farm Bill funding levels by taking conservation dollars authorized by the Inflation Reduction Act and repurposing them to the 2023 Farm Bill baseline for CSP.
ASKED TO SUPPORT THE FOLLOWING: - H.R.4288, the Agricultural Labeling Uniformity Act, which would reaffirm and strengthen federal law to prevent the emergence of an inconsistent state or local pesticide labels. - S.1427, the Agriculture PFAs Liability Protection Act, which would exempt farming from any PFAS liability. - S.747/H.R.1517, the Relief for Farmers Hit with PFAS Act, which would authorize USDA to provide grants to state and territories to address PFAS contamination on farms. ASKED TO OPPOSE THE FOLLOWING: - S.269/H.R.5085, the Protect Americas Children from Toxic Pesticides Act, which would modify provisions related to the registration, distribution, sale, and use of pesticides, including by cancelling the registration of organophosphates, neonicotinoids, and paraquat and by creating a process for interested individuals to submit a petition to designate an active ingredient or pesticide as a dangerous pesticide. - EPA's proposed rule (Docket #: EPA-HQ-OPP-2022-0133) to protect farm workers from pesticide exposure. OTHER: - Monitored EPA's insecticide strategy (Docket #:EPA-HQ-OPP-2024-0299). - Monitored EPA's Workplan to Protect Endangered and Threatened Species from Pesticides. - Monitored EPA's proposed interim decision for mancozeb (Docket #: EPA-HQ-OPP-2015-0291) - Advocacy in general to encourage legislators to support pesticide, insecticide, herbicide, etc. labeling that is scientifically sound.