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Rep. Nancy Mace Wins Farm Group Endorsement in Republican Primary

Today, Competitive Markets Action, Inc. (CMA), a 501(c)(4) non-profit based in Washington, D.C., with the mission of promoting more regenerative and sustainable agriculture, and competitive markets in the U.S., and defending against attacks on states’ rights by the federal government, endorsed U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., for re-election in the First Congressional District Republican primary against Catherine Templeton. Earlier this year Mace was also endorsed by former President Donald J. Trump who deemed Mace a “strong conservative voice.”

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Farm Groups Announce "Enough is Enough" Tour with Event in Guntersville

Today, 16 farm organizations announced the launch of the national Enough Is Enough Tour in protest of government policies that drive consolidation of the food system into the hands of the largest multinational corporations to the detriment of farmers and ranchers. A major focus of the tour is to highlight corruption in government checkoff programs, which compel farmers and ranchers to contribute a staggering one billion dollars annually and which have been co-opted by corporate interests.

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Rep. Jim McGovern applauded by Farm Groups for Shining Light on Chinese Smithfield’s Attempt to Overturn Question 3

Today, the Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM), and Competitive Markets Action (CMA), applauded U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern, D-MA, for shining light on Smithfield Foods, a company owned by the Chinese group 万洲国际, during a hearing held Wednesday by the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture entitled “The Danger China Poses to American Agriculture.”

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Moms and Farm Groups Call on Lobbyists to Terminate, Delist China’s Smithfield

Today Moms for America, the Organization for Competitive Markets, and Competitive Markets Action, called on and lobbying firms who represent Smithfield Foods, owned by Chinese 万洲国际, to drop the foreign multinational conglomerate as a client ahead of the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture’s hearing entitled “The Danger China Poses to American Agriculture.”

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Rep. Anna Paulina Luna Leads House Freedom Caucus Letter Against China’s EATS Act and Foreign Attempt to Takeover U.S. Food Production

Today, ten U.S. House Representatives, primarily Members of the House Freedom Caucus, weighed in with staunch opposition to the so-called Ending Agriculture Trade Suppression (EATS) Act, H.R. 4417/S. 2019 , led by Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-IA, and Sen. Roger Marshall, R-KS, in a letter to House Agriculture Committee leaders. Fox News broke the story here on the letter that the Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM) and Competitive Markets Action (CMA) advocated for.

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U.S. Rep. Dina Titus Honored with Leadership Award by Competitive Markets Groups

The Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM) and Competitive Markets Action (CMA), recently announced the recipients of their 2023 Congressional Awards and honored U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, D-NV, with their Leadership Award for her work to reform the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture’s Commodity Checkoff Programs with the Opportunities for Fairness in Farming (OFF) Act, H.R. 1249/S. 557, that Titus has championed since 2017.

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Rep. Andrew Garbarino Honored with Leadership Award by Competitive Markets Groups

The Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM) and Competitive Markets Action (CMA), recently announced the recipients of their 2023 Congressional Awards and honored U.S. Rep. Andrew Garbarino, R-NY, with their Leadership Award for his work to defeat the so-called Ending Agriculture Trade Suppression (EATS) Act, H.R. 4417/S. 2019, led by Rep. Ashley Hinson, R-IA, and Sen. Roger Marshall, R-KS.

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U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace Honored with Leadership Award by Competitive Markets Groups

The Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM) and Competitive Markets Action (CMA), recently announced the recipients of their 2023 Congressional Awards and honored U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, R-SC, with their Leadership Award for her work to reform the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture’s Commodity Checkoff Programs, and defeat the EATS Act, H.R. 4417.

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Moms for America, Texas Ag Commissioner, Applauded for Pushing Back Against Swamp Secretary Vilsack

Today, Competitive Markets Action and the Organization for Competitive Markets applauded Moms for America (MFA) and Republican Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, who responded to testimony before Congress last week given by Joe Biden’s Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, against California’s Proposition 12 enacted in 2018 by voters at the ballot box.

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Farm Groups Applaud Rep. Nancy Mace for Backing Crop Insurance Transparency Act

Projected to cost $100 billion in this decade alone, the Federal Crop Insurance Program is the most expensive program in the farm safety net, yet federal law prohibits the USDA from disclosing basic information about subsidy recipients. This week, Rep. Nancy Mace, R-Mt. Pleasant, was working hard to legislate and joined as a cosponsor of the Crop Insurance Transparency Act, H.R. 5747.

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Competitive Markets Groups Applaud Passage of CR and Extension of Farm Bill into Fall of 2024

Competitive Markets Action (CMA) and the Organization for Competitive Markets (OCM) released the following statement on the U.S. Senate's passage of H.R. 6363, the Further Continuing Appropriations and Other Extensions Act, 2024, and extension of the Farm Bill into next Fall that the U.S. House passed yesterday. The legislation will now head to the President's desk to be signed into law.

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Competitive Markets Action Sponsors Daily Caller Foundation’s Annual Gala, Applauds Mace, Mooney, Miller, Lee, Paul, and Other Members of Congress

This month, Competitive Markets Action, a 501(c)(4) nonprofit working to defeat the terrible EATS Act, H.R. 4417/S. 2190, sponsored The Daily Caller Foundation’s Annual Awards Gala in our Nation’s Capital. The groups saw great success in discussions with numerous Members of Congress, Tucker Carlson, and Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a longtime proponent of sustainable agriculture.

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