Congressman Frank Lucas, R-OK, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development, and Research, chaired a hearing today to review the methyl bromide (MeBr) Critical Use Exemption (CUE) process under the Montreal Protocol. The Subcommittee heard testimony from two panels of witnesses including Claudia McMurray, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Environment, Bureau of Oceans and I... Read more »
Chairman Bob Goodlatte released the following statement regarding the revised CBO estimates of the Administration’s budget: “I am alarmed by the revised CBO estimates of the Administration’s budget released recently. These estimates call for cuts of $9.1 billion in programs under the jurisdiction of the Agriculture Committee over five years. This is unacceptable. The level of reduction, which is p... Read more »
Chairman Bob Goodlatte and Members of the House Committee on Agriculture met today with Dr. Supachai Panitchpakdi, Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Ambassador Stuart Harbinson, Chief of Staff to the Director General of the WTO to discuss the ongoing trade negotiations of the Doha Development Round. Committee Members met with the Director General a year ago to discuss the ... Read more »
Congressman Jerry Moran, Chairman of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management, today chaired the second hearing in a series of two hearings to examine the reauthorization of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The Subcommittee heard from three panels of witnesses representing the commodity futures trading industry. The CFTC was established in ... Read more »
Statement by Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Congressman Robin Hayes (R-NC) regarding the passage of S.J. Res. 4 by the U.S. Senate today: “We are disappointed that the Senate acted so hastily in disapproving the USDA’s science based minimal-risk rule that would put us on the path of normalizing beef and cattle trade with Canada. Yesterday, a judge in Montana granted a preliminary injunction on ... Read more »
Statement by Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) and Congressman Robin Hayes (R-NC) regarding the passage of S.J. Res. 4 by the U.S. Senate today: “We are disappointed that the Senate acted so hastily in disapproving the USDA’s science based minimal-risk rule that would put us on the path of normalizing beef and cattle trade with Canada. Yesterday, a judge in Montana granted a preliminary injunction on ... Read more »
The House Committee on Agriculture today held a hearing to review the Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) rule providing for Canadian beef and cattle imports. After the Canadians discovered a Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) positive cow in Canada in May 2003, the U.S. closed its border to Canadian beef and cattle imports.In December 2004, USDA published the final rule establishing minimal-ri... Read more »
Today the House Committee on Agriculture held its first full Committee organizational meeting of the 109th Congress. The Committee approved Subcommittee assignments, the Committee Rules and Committee Oversight Plan, and the Budget Views and Estimates Letter offering budget recommendations for the programs and agencies under the Committee’s jurisdiction. Agriculture Committee members Subcommittee a... Read more »
Bob Goodlatte today spoke out against the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) budget proposal that would transfer $300 million of the agency’s $1.2 billion food aid funding for 2006. The transferred funds would be used to purchase foreign food in areas experiencing emergency food situations. Andrew Natsios, administration for USAID, indicated that the new proposal has encountered r... Read more »
Chairman Bob Goodlatte co-sponsored a bill to reauthorize PL 106-393, The Secure Rural Schools and Community Self Determination Act of 2000, introduced Wednesday evening. In 2000, Congress passed the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self Determination Act that focused on creating new cooperative partnerships between citizens in forest counties and federal land managers to develop forest health i... Read more »
