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 »
Led by Congressman Bob Smith, Chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture, the Agriculture Subcommittee on Forestry, Resource Conservation, and Research today passed the Forest Recovery and Protection Act (H.R. 2515), Smith's nationwide forest health legislation to provide for better forest science, more agency accountability, and on-the-ground results that rehabiliate and protect America's pre... Read more »
By a unanimous voice vote, the House Committee on Agriculture on Wednesday, October 29th approved the Agricultural, Research, Extension, and Education Reauthorization Act of 1997 (H.R. 2534), approving the first comprehensive overhaul of agricultural research programs since 1997 for consideration by the full House of Representatives. On Wednesday, October 29th, the Committee adopted by voice vote ... Read more »
Congressman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Chairman of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Departmental Operations, Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture and a leading congressional critic of food stamp waste, fraud, and abuse, today announced that his legislation encouraging stepped-up USDA inspections of stores that accept food stamps has saved taxpayers millions of dollars. Last year, as part of the Welfa... Read more »
