A bipartisan effort in the U.S. Senate has resulted in the USDA retaining its classification of the humble potato as a vegetable under Dietary Guidelines for Americans. A letter written by Democrat ...

(The Hill) — Fourteen senators are calling on the departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Health and Human Services (HHS) to keep the potato classified as a vegetable, amid reports that a joint advisory ...

Potatoes at the Othello, Wash., processing facility for McCain Foods, one of the world’s largest makers of potato products. Rajah Bose for The Washington Post Washington’s U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, ...

Potatoes might be reclassified as a grain, but not if Idaho’s senators have their way. U.S. Sens. Jim Risch and Mike Crapo, along with a bipartisan group of 12 other senators, have called on the ...