February 2002 House Negotiators Balance Farm Bill Conference Agriculture's interests widely represented February 28, 2002 – House Agriculture Committee Chairman Larry Combest and Ranking Minority Member Charlie Stenholm noted the wide regional representation appointed Thursday morning to the farm bill conference presents a unified, balanced House position to the farm bill conference committee. Hou... Read more »
Chairman suggests immediate work to begin with sights on 2002 crop year Feburary 13, 2002 – House Agriculture Committee Chairman Larry Combest (R-Texas) said today's passage of a Senate farm bill should signal immediate work to begin on reconciling House and Senate versions with sights on the 2002 crop year. Combest has directed that working meetings begin immediately without waiting for the forma... Read more »
Feburary 13, 2002.— A year and a half after the implementation of the Agricultural Risk Protection Act of 2000 (ARPA), the House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management met to assess the progress of the implementation of the Act. As ARPA was being developed, farmers across the country emphasized the need for the inclusion of several key provisions in the legislatio... Read more »
Ag Chairman Combest notes USDA support for House funding approach February 4, 2002 -- House Agriculture Committee Chairman Larry Combest (R-Texas) welcomed the President's strong commitment to full farm bill funding in the coming year's budget proposal released Monday. In particular, Ag Chairman Combest noted the President's Budget tracks the House-passed farm bill funding approach of consistent l... Read more »
President's Farm Budget Commitment Solid Ag Chairman Combest hails Bush support for ten-year $73.5 billion funding December 21, 2001 – House Agriculture Committee Chairman Larry Combest issued the following statement after releasing a letter Friday from the President's Office of Management and Budget Director Mitch Daniels: "President Bush has made an unquestionable commitment for producers, and t... Read more »
Arkansas Senator Tim Hutchinson moves for vote on House-based bill December 19, 2001 – House Agriculture Committee Chairman Larry Combest commended Arkansas Senator Tim Hutchinson for giving farmers a real prospect of getting a finalized farm bill this year by urging the Senate to pass the House-based farm bill. The Hutchinson provision already has the bi-partisan support of Senators who cosponsor... Read more »
December 14, 2001 – House Agriculture Committee Chairman Larry Combest (R-Texas) said Friday that with the still-unfinished Senate farm bill growing to nearly a thousand pages while the end of the year is growing near, the farmer's best option of seeing a finalized farm bill this year is to adopt the bi-partisan, broad-based "Farm Security Act" (H.R. 2646), passed by the House more than two months... Read more »
December 6, 2001 – House Agriculture Committee Chairman Larry Combest was sharply critical of Senate Democrat Majority Leader Tom Daschle's decision not to cooperate with the House to complete a farm bill this year. Commenting Thursday morning to reporters as to why he is not finalizing a farm bill into law this year, Daschle counts on a narrow time window before a new budget process begins when C... Read more »
(December 5, 2001) – House Agriculture Committee Chairman Larry Combest (R-Texas) today strongly urged Senators Tom Daschle (D-SD) and Tom Harkin (D-IA) to complete Senate work on a farm bill this week. "Farmers have waited three weeks for the Senate's Majority Leader Daschle and Ag Chairman Harkin to bring their own farm bill to final passage. The Senate's bill has been ready since November 15, a... Read more »
