WASHINGTON, June 26 -- Sen. Michael Bennet issued the following press release:
Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet joined U.S. Senators Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.), Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.), Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and John Fetterman (D-Pa.) to introduce the Cultivating Horticultural Innovation in Local Economies (CHILE) Act, legislation to strengthen federal support for specialty crop growers facing economic losses and market disruptions.
The CHILE Act builds upon language included in the House-passed Farm Bill that creates a Specialty Crop Emergency Assistance Framework. The legislation would ensure the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) uses that framework when providing direct assistance to specialty cro...