At a hearing to evaluate the impact of the Asian financial crisis on U.S. agricultural exports, Congressman Bill Barrett (R-NE), Chairman of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, today called upon the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to consider an extension of additional GSM credit guarantees and P.L. 480 commodity sales to East Asain countries, pledging to continue... Read more »
Goodlatte Opposed President's Proposal to Abandon Food Stamp Reform: Subcommittee Chairman Criticizes President's Call for New Spending Program Congressman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Chairman of the House Subcommittee with jurisdiction over the federal food stamp program, today announced his opposition to President Clinton's proposal to extend food stamps to non-citizens, criticizing the President's pr... Read more »
Congressman Bob Smith (R-OR), Chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture, and Congressman Joe Skeen (R-NM), Chairman of the House Appropriations Subcommittee for Agriculture, today criticized President Clinton's FY99 budget for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), questioning the President's allocation of $573 million in non-existent user fees. This morning, President Clinton released hi... Read more »
Congressman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Chairman of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Department Operations, Nutrition, and Foreign Agriculture with jurisdiction over the federal food stamp program, today rejected a reported proposal by President Clinton to give food stamps to non-citizens, criticizing the President's proposal to expand federal welfare beenfits at a time when Congress' welfare progr... Read more »
Smith, Agriculture Committee members push open markets in New Zealand, Australia: Trade Mission Works With Eye Toward 1999 WTO Agriculture Negotiations With new world agriculture trade talks on the horizon in 1999, the House Committee on Agriculture, led by Chairman Bob Smith (R-OR), has reaffirmed the importance of reducing trade barriers and ecouraging U.S. agricultural exports in trade talks wi... Read more »
Oregon Congressman Bob Smith, Chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture, has asked that the United States Army not to award a contract to breach southern Oregon's Elk Creek Dam, arguing that Congress needs time to provide further direction regarding the project and requesting that an Enviornmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the project be performed. Smith, who convened a hearing of the House A... Read more »
Oregon Congressman Bob Smith, Chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture and a leading proponent of renewing fast track trade authority, today cautioned that adding provisions on labor and the enviornment to new fast track legislation to be considered next year would only weaken the bill, and could result in a complete collapse of support. "Both the fast track bill introduced by the Administra... Read more »
Oregon Congressman Bob Smith, Chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture, today announced that he has requested that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers extend the comment period on it's proposal to breach southern Oregon's Elk Creek Dam three months beyond the current November 17 deadline. Smith, who has scheduled a hearing of the House of Representatives' Committee on Agriculture for this Thurs... Read more »
The U.S. House of Representatives today overwhelmingly passed an initiative offered by Oregon Congressman Bob Smith that would enable the Bureau of Reclamation to provide financial assistance to farmers in southern Oregon for the design and construction of fish passage facilities in the Rogue River Basin. By a unanimous voice vote, the House today passed the Water-Related Technical Corrections Act... Read more »
The House of Representatives today overwhelmingly passed the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Eduction Reauthorization Act of 1997 (H.R. 2534), the first comprehensive overhaul of the nation's federal agricultural research programs in twenty years, but the measure faced grave difficulties, as some members used a rare parlimentary maneuver to prevent the bill from advancing to a conference com... Read more »
