Chairman Bob Goodlattee, Ranking Minority Member Charlie Stenholm, and other members of the House Agriculture Committee met this week with Ambassador Daniel G. Amstutz, Secretary Veneman’s choice to lead the U.S. agricultural reconstruction efforts in Iraq, regarding the Administration’s plans for reconstruction of the agriculture sector in the country. Ambassador Amstutz is serving as the USDA’s ... Read more »
AGRICULTURE SUBCOMMITTEE HOLDS HEARING TO REVIEW FINANCIAL CONDITION OF CROP INSURANCE Hearing Also Addresses Implementation of the Agriculture Risk Protection Act Congressman Jerry Moran, Chairman of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management, today chaired a hearing on the crop insurance program and the implementation of the Agriculture Risk Protection Act... Read more »
COMMITTEE HOLDS HEARING ON THE STATUS OF THE WTO NEGOTIATIONS ON AGRICULTURE Goodlatte Says, ‘The Voices of America’s Farmers and Ranchers Must be Heard in the WTO Negotiations’ The House Committee on Agriculture today held a hearing on the current status of World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations on agriculture, the wide range of positions taken by other countries in these negotiations and ef... Read more »
Joint Statement From Agriculture Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, Ranking Member Charlie Stenholm, Livestock and Horticulture Subcommittee Chairman Robin Hayes and Ranking Member Mike Ross Regarding Canada’s Announcement of BSE Investigation “We have been in contact with the Department of Agriculture and Canadian officials regarding this investigation. They are keeping us apprised of the situatio... Read more »
HOUSE PASSES BI-PARTISAN HEALTHY FORESTS LEGISLATION Bill Moves One Step Closer to Becoming Law The House today, by a vote of 256-170 passed critical legislation to protect our nation’s forests from future catastrophic wildfires. The legislation will now move to the Senate for consideration. “Our nation’s forest and rangeland ecosystems are in crisis,” Chairman Goodlatte said. “These precious reso... Read more »
AGRICULTURE SUBCOMMITTEE HOLDS HEARING ON THE STATE OF THE DAIRY INDUSTRY Subcommittee Chairman Gutknecht Says ‘America’s Dairy Producers are Facing Difficult Times…’ Congressman Gil Gutknecht, Chairman of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition, and Forestry, convened his first hearing today to review the state of the nation’s dairy industry and gather in... Read more »
GOODLATTE PRAISES ADMINISTRATION’S DECISION TO CHALLENGE THE EU’S LONGSTANDING MORATORIUM ON AGRICULTURE BIOTECHNOLOGY Says WTO Case will ‘Send a message to the rest of the world that illegitimate, non-science based trade barriers will not be tolerated’ Following a meeting today in the U.S. Capitol, Agriculture Chairman Bob Goodlatte joined with House Speaker Dennis Hastert, U.S. Trade Representat... Read more »
COMMITTEE TO HOLD HEARING ON THE STATUS OF THE WTO NEGOTIATIONS ON AGRICULTURE Hearing First in a Series Related to Trade The House Committee on Agriculture will hold a hearing on May 21, 2003 at 10:00 a.m. to receive testimony on the current status of World Trade Organization negotiations on agriculture. Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman and United States Trade Representative Robert Zoellick a... Read more »
AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE PASSES HEALTHY FORESTS LEGISLATION Bill Moves One Step Closer to Final Passage The House Agriculture Committee today passed critical legislation to protect our nation’s forests from future catastrophic wildfires. Under the leadership of Committee Chairman Goodlatte, the bipartisan Healthy Forest Restoration Act of 2003 passed out of the committee by a voice vote. “This legisl... Read more »
GOODLATTE MEETS WITH RUSSIAN MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE REGARDING TRADE ISSUES Continues to Push for Open Access to Russian Markets for U.S. Agriculture Products as Evidence That Russia is Ready to Join the WTO : - This morning Chairman Bob Goodlatte, in a meeting with Aleksey Gordeyev, Russia’s Minister of Agriculture and Deputy Prime Minister, engaged in a broad discussion of timely issues includin... Read more »
