Good morning, members of the committee. I call this meeting on agriculture, nutrition, and forestry to order. We welcome sonny perdue. Members of this committee have great appreciation for the farmers, ranchers, and other stake holders directly affected by decisions made by the secretary. The department of agriculture is made up of 29 agencies and offices that employs nearly 100,000 men and women that work in all 50 states and all around the globe. Leadership on food, agriculture, natural resources, rural development, nutrition, Scientific Research and related issues that impact americans virtually every day. Throughout our nations history, our farmers, ranchers, and folks in Rural America have survived drought, disease, floods, tornado, and lately, yes, lately, prairie fires in kansas and whatever else Mother Nature throws at them. Year after year, they produce the safest, most abundant supply in the world but today, growers around the country are facing tough Economic Times with mult
Nuclear ought to be in the mix. Cspan. Org. On our home page and by searching the video library. President trumps nominee for agriculture secretary, former georgia governor, sonny purdue, testified at his confirmati confirmation hearing. He was questioned about proposed white house budget cuts to farm programs, Crop Insurance, Forest Management, immigrant labor and farm bill reauthorization. Good morning, members of the committee. I call this meeting of the Senate Committee on agriculture, nutrition and forestry to order. This morning we welcome governor sonny perdue, the president s nominee for u. S. Secretary of agriculture. Members of this committee have great appreciation for the farmers, ranchers and consumers and other stakeholders that are directly affected by decisions made by the secretary. The department of agriculture is made up of 29 agencies and offices. It employs nearly 100,000 men and women that work in all 50 states and all around the globe. The department provides lea
Leap on Scientific Research and related issues that impact americans virtually every day. Throughout our nations history, our farmers, ranchers and folks in Rural America have survived drought, disease, floods, and tornadoes and fires and whatever else Mother Nature throws at them. Year after year, they produced the safest most abundant food and fiber supply in the world, however today, growers from cross the country are facing high prices. These strong producers need a strong market for their goods. The importance of trade for agriculture, our agriculture industry cannot be overstated. And if that was not enough, over the last previous years, farmers and ranchers and Rural Businesses have been burdened by regulations all across the federal government. I have heard time and time again as well as many members of this committee about the costly and hard to understand regulations that endanger the ability of our producers to stay in business. This committee will continue its efforts to ma
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Good evening. I am bradley graham, coowner of politics prose along with my wife, with the muscatine and on behalf of the entire staff thank you for coming. Thank you for braving the cold and the ice. Is due to appear at the Washington Post style section decides to run a favorable future about the person in the new book and that of course is what happened today for the congressman steve israel. For those of you that havent read the book yet with me summarize steve and his first attempt at a novel has written a really funny washington parody titled old moron morris the story recounts how the giant counterterrorism apparatus thats focused on the hapless long island pharmaceutical salesman feldstein. But it seems to amaze even steves closest friends is how that turned out and its how he found the time to write it. For one thing it represents a far demanding district new yorks third Congressional District which includes a chunk of long island as well as a small portion of queens. Also havin