Issue Updates
Friday, 10 January 2020 11:24
FRA Issue Update - 1/10/20
H-2B ACTION ALERT: U.S. Representatives Andy Harris (R-MD-1), Chellie Pingree (D-ME-1), Jack Bergman (R-MI-1) and Jack Keating (D-MA-9) and Senators Angus King (I-ME) and Mike Rounds (R-SD) are circulating a letter to the Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, Chad Wolf, asking that he immediately release all of the additional H-2B visas authorized under the law.
Monday, 06 January 2020 12:37
FRA Issue Update - 1/3/20
As FRA reflects on 2019, we would like to highlight some of our successes during the year in advancing our top policy priorities of transportation, non-immigrant labor, and biomass.
Friday, 20 December 2019 08:25
FRA Issue Update - 12/20/19
This week Congress passed a $1.4 trillion spending and tax package that will fund the federal government through Fiscal Year 2020. Two provisions critical to FRA were included in this package:
Friday, 13 December 2019 11:26
FRA Issue Update - 12/13/19
Last evening, Congressional leadership announced an agreement in principle to fund the federal government through the remainder of Fiscal Year 2020.
Monday, 09 December 2019 07:13
FRA Issue Update 12/06/19
The Federal Government is currently operating under a temporary spending measure that expires on December 20th. Time is ticking to save H-2B for 2020.
Wednesday, 27 November 2019 11:38
FRA Issue Update - 11/27/19
The Wisconsin Council on Forestry has endorsed the Safe Routes Act. In a letter to Senator Baldwin (WI) the Council states “Legislation such as the Safe Routes Act, is needed to allow state legal log trucks the option to avoid rural and urban streets and highways and populated areas where pedestrian activities are numerous and where frequent intersections increase traffic safety concerns.”
Friday, 22 November 2019 11:46
FRA Issue Update - 11/22/19
Congressman David Rouzer (R-NC-7) has signed on as a cosponsor to the Safe Routes Act (HR 2453).
Friday, 15 November 2019 11:30
FRA Issue Update - 11/15/19 - Action Requested
FRA participated this week in a Capitol Hill Fly-In organized by the H-2B Workforce Coalition of which we are members. Representatives from the National Association of Landscape Professionals, the Seasonal Employment Alliance, AmericanHort, and the Golf Course Superintendents Association were also on hand.
Friday, 08 November 2019 11:27
Congressman Gallagher “Chopping Down Burdensome Regulations”
Last weekend, Congressman Gallagher (R-WI-8) hopped into a log truck to get a better understanding of the issues that the Safe Routes Act aims to resolve. The Congressman rode “shotgun” as logs were transported from the woods to Algoma Lumber which is located in the Congressman Gallagher’s district.
Friday, 01 November 2019 11:26
FRA Issue Update - 11/1/19
On Saturday, November 2, Congressman Mike Gallagher (R-WI-8) will experience firsthand the safety benefits promoted by the Safe Routes Act (HR 2453, S.1509), a bill the Congressman sponsors.