Comer Wants Spending Bill to Delay Intoxicating Hemp Ban

Hemp Farmers Blindsided: Congressman Baird Introduces Bill to Pause Disruptive Restrictions

Congressman Jim Baird (R-IN-4th District), who also serves on the House Committee on Agriculture. NOTE: This photo was taken before Baird was injured in a hit-and-run vehicle crash near the Washington, D.C. area on Jan. 7, 2026. Both Baird and his wife, Danise, are now out of the hospital and recovering from their injuries. A bill that would delay the implementation of a new federal law that significantly restricts hemp products has been introdu…

Comer joins push to delay enforcement of federal hemp regulation changes by two years

(Matt Barton | UK College of Agri/UK College of Agriculture, Food / Flickr)Kentucky Republican Congressman James Comer has joined a legislative effort to delay the enforcement of new federal regulations on hemp that are currently set to take effect later this year – ones that some farmers and business owners say would devastate the hemp industry. A provision in the federal spending bill passed late last year – which ended the longest federal gov…

Kentucky hemp farmers on Capitol Hill call for delay to change in law

Kentucky hemp farmers and advocates are urging Congress to delay enforcement of a change in law they say will kill the industry

Comer backs initiative to delay hemp ban from going into effect in November

Rep. James Comer (R-KY) has thrown his weight behind a bill that would delay the implementation of hemp-banning language in an agriculture funding law set to go into effect in November. As part of the agriculture funding bill passed in November 2025 to end the government shutdown, President Donald Trump signed into law a provision that lawmakers said was aimed at closing an unintended loophole in the 2018 farm bill that allowed the accessible sa…

Comer wants spending bill to delay intoxicating hemp ban

Kentucky Republican hopes to win a two-year extension in spending legislation needed this month to head off a partial government shutdown.

Key GOP Congressional Committee Chairman Pushes To Delay Hemp THC Ban, Saying It Will Hurt Farmers

The Republican chair of a key congressional committee is joining with farmers to push for a delay in the planned enactment of a federal law that threatens to recriminalize hemp-derived THC products. “The hemp industry is facing significant challenges and growing uncertainty, and is long past time for Congress to provide farmers and business owners with the clarity they need to succeed,” House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Ja…