MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov Today, Ranking Member Frank Lucas sent a letter to the Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, expressing great concern about the Obama administration’s position on eliminating direct payments to producers. Tuesday night, in his address to a joint session of the 111th Congress, President Obama called for ending direct payments... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov Today, Ranking Republican Frank Lucas expressed disappointment in the response of Gary Gensler, President Barack Obama’s nominee to chair the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, to questions posed during the confirmation process. Specifically, Mr. Lucas is concerned about Mr. Gensler’s views on merging the Commodity Futures... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov Today, Agriculture Committee Ranking Republican Frank Lucas announced the addition of Rep. Cynthia Lummis from Wyoming to the Republican membership of the Committee. This completes the Republican roster. Rep. Lummis will serve on the subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition, and Forestry, and the subcommitt... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov Today, Ranking Republican Frank Lucas announced the subcommittee assignments for the Republican members during a business meeting with members of the Agriculture Committee. There is one vacancy that will be announced at a later date. And, as the Ranking Republican, Lucas serves as the ex officio member of all subcommittees. A... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov Today, Ranking Republican Frank Lucas named six members to serve as Subcommittee Ranking Members on the Agriculture Committee. Former Chairman and Ranking Republican Bob Goodlatte will hold a leadership role, and two other veteran Subcommittee Ranking Members will remain in top positions. The Ranking Members are listed below.... Read more »
MEDIA CONTACT: Tamara Hinton (202) 225-0184 tamara.hinton@mail.house.gov With the swearing in of the 111th Congress today, Rep. Frank Lucas from Oklahoma assumes the position of Ranking Member of the House Agriculture Committee. Republican leadership selected Lucas to serve in this position last month. He succeeds Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) who served as the ranking Republican on the committee for ... Read more »
Today, the House Agriculture Committee held a hearing to review the role of credit derivatives in the U.S. economy. Chairman Collin C. Peterson of Minnesota called today’s hearing, the second by the Committee in as many months, to examine credit derivatives and their part in the worldwide credit and financial crisis. “One thing we learned at October’s hearing is that very few people know much abou... Read more »
Congressman Joe Baca (D-Rialto, CA) gave the following statement today on the release of a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report investigating the civil rights efforts overseen by the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). As Chair of the House Agriculture Subcommittee on Departmental Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry, R... Read more »
Today, the House Agriculture Committee held a hearing to review the role of credit derivatives in the U.S. economy, and the role they may have played in the recent credit and financial crisis affecting markets around the world.
Today, the House of Representatives passed bipartisan legislation to suspend for the 2008 crop year a Farm Bill provision that required producers to have a minimum of 10-base acres to receive program benefits. The House and Senate each passed by unanimous consent the Senate amendment to H.R. 6849, originally sponsored by Congressman Bob Etheridge of North Carolina, Chairman of the House Agricultur... Read more »
