Washington Report for 8-3-15

By Steve Kopperud

Read this week's headlines below.

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• Menu of Highway Program Extensions Ends with Senate Sending Three-Month Bill to White House
• Senate Six-Year Highway Bill Still Three Years Short on Funding, While Offsets, Concession Abound
• Army Corps Documents Released to Senate Committee Damage WOTUS Rulemaking
• WOTUS Lawsuits to be Heard as Single Case
• CFTC Funding, Dodd-Frank Rule Battles Continue
• Senate Committee Approve Major Energy Bill
• Cargill Joins Companies Signing White House Climate Change Pledge
• Vilsack Wants Emergency Program for Poultry
• Feinstein Introduces California Drought Relief Bill 
• Cargill Pork Unit Sale to JBS Needs DOJ Review:  Grassley
• EPA Doing Itself Harm:  RFA; Freeze RFS at 2014 Level:  NCC