Today, the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry, led by Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) reviewed a proposal that would extend loan guarantees to companies willing to provide rural communities with access to local television via satellite. "Rural consumers will benefit from local news, sports, politics, and other information that is vital to comm... Read more »
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Larry Combest (R-TX) today issued the following statement regarding the agriculture provisions contained in President Clinton's Fiscal Year 2001 Budget. "We asked Secretary Glickman to give us specifics on how the Administration intends to help farmers. To the president's credit there is something in his budget. Unfortunately, when you strip away the administr... Read more »
Today the House of Representatives passed S. 1733, the Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) Interoperability and Portability Act. This bill requires states to conform their EBT standards to a national, uniform operating system that the states themselves choose. "The pace of technology in America is astounding, and the government needs to keep up with it," said House Agriculture Committee Chairman Lar... Read more »
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Larry Combest (R-TX) today issued the following statement regarding the World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations which took place in Seattle last week: "The World Trade Organization Ministerial in Seattle offered a great opportunity to agree to future negotiations that would level the agricultural playing field, including the elimination of foreign subsidies... Read more »
Seattle, Today, the House Committee on Agriculture delegation led by Chairman Larry Combest (R-TX) and Ranking Member Charlie Stenholm (D-TX) closed out a productive week at the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial in Seattle. They had led a group of more than twenty members of the Agriculture Committee in ensuring that the concerns of American farmers and ranchers were fully represented in ... Read more »
Today, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Larry Combest (R-Texas) and Ranking Minority Member Charlie Stenholm (D-Texas) departed with the agriculture delegation to the World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations held this week in Seattle, Washington. Combest and Stenholm are leading a delegation of more than 20 members of the House Agriculture Committee as one of many steps to ensure that Ameri... Read more »
Today, by a vote of 296-135 the House of Representatives brought the first session of the 106th Congress to a close by passing a compromise final appropriation bill (H.R. 3194) which included an additional $576 million in emergency disaster assistance for agriculture and implementation of the dairy reform known as Option 1-A. "We've made a lot of progress this year on a wide variety of issues aff... Read more »
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Larry Combest (R-Texas) and Ranking Minority Member Charlie Stenholm (D-Texas) said today that China's agreement to join U.S. and European trading partners in the World Trade Organization (WTO) appears to have come on terms favorable to U.S. agricultural goods. While congratulating the work of the Office of U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) and Ambassador Charl... Read more »
As the First Session of the 106th Congress nears its end, House Agriculture Committee Chairman Larry Combest (R-TX) sent a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman making clear his expectation that the Clinton Administration will finally deliver its long-promised proposals for strengthening federal agricultural policy. The complete text of Combest's letter is available upon request. Early t... Read more »
Whether your question is about "pork bellies" or the volume of an acre-foot of water -- (and why it matters) -- the House Agriculture Committee's Internet glossary of agriculture at republicans-agriculture.house.gov offers some of the answers. The agricultural glossary locates each term among more than 1,900 entries. Many of the terms are cross-referenced and linked to other entries. Committee Ch... Read more »
