Called to order. Members will be recognized in order seniority as members not present at the time the hearing called to order will then be recognized. Finally, the house requirement remiedged you that we have set up email address to which to sending anything they wish to submit in writing at any of our hearings or markups. That he mail address has been provided in advance to your staff. Make sure your video is turned on at this time. Well, good morning and welcome to todays hearing. This morning we are honored to have secretary tom vilsack to discuss his vision for usda during has second tour at the department. Thank you for answering President Biden call to return to service after having been the longest serving member of president obamas cabinet. You are the first cabinet secretary to testify before the House Appropriations committee this year. And we really appreciate your taking time to be with us today even while youre still settling in and working on your long to do list. We look
May mute the my microphone for purpose of eliminating inadvertent background noise members are responsible for muting an unmuting themselves. If i notice that youve not unmuted yourself i will ask you if you would like the staff to unmute you. If you indicate by approval by nodding, then staff will unmute your microphone. I remind all members witnesses that the five minute clock still applies. If theres a technology issue, we will move to the next member until the issue is resolved and you will retain the balance of your time. You will notice a clock on the screen that will show how much time is remaining. At one minute remaning the clock will turn yellow. At 30 seconds remaining gavel to remind members that the tile is almost expired. When your time has expired the clock will turn red and i will begin to recognize the next member. In terms of speaking order, we will follow the order set forth in the house rules. Beginning with the chair and Ranking Member, then alternating between maj
Today, we areso going to be talking about the meaning of freedom. I wanted to capture our earlier discussions about the meaning of freedom when we thought about free communities, free black folks in the north and south and how we came up with this way of representing freedom as freedom with a line through it, not quite freedom. Freedom to freedom, this question of freedom and what does it mean. We will talk about what did freedom mean and in particular what did freedom mean to the free people. January of 1865 edwin stanton, secretary of war, and Union General William Sherman had a meeting with 20 preachers in savannah, georgia. They were pastors, lay church leaders. They wanted to find out from these preachers basically what is it that free people want from freedom . What did they expect in the aftermath of the emancipation proclamation . People who were ostensibly representatives of free black folks in the community selected one person, garrison frazier, a 60 sevenyearold man to be th
Minutes. Good morning. I call this meeting in the Senate Committee on agriculture forestry to order. The ambassador doud, mckinney and johansen we are happy to have you back again for the committee to discuss the need for certainty and our Global Agriculture markets. International trade policies and their impacts on the United States agricultural economy. Has been a topic of great interest over the last few years. And more particularly the last few months. In fact, it is the second time in the last year we are hearing about the efforts being made at the office of the United States trade representative and the department of agriculture. I hope eventually it will result in a longterm, reliable markets for the United States agriculture. A great deal has happened in the nine months since you all appeared before this committee perhaps the most significantly to our members was the successful passage and enactment of the 2018 farm bill. With the help of everybody here. Much like the negotiati
This hearing of the Senate Agriculture committee. Its about an hour and 45 minutes. Morning. I call this meeting of the Senate Committee on agriculture under order. We are happy to have you back here again before the committee to discuss the need for certainty in our Global Agriculture markets. International trade policies and their impacts on the United States agriculture economy has been a topic of great interest over the last few years and more particularly the last few months. In fact, this is the second time in the last year that we are hearing about the efforts being made at the office of the United States trade representative and the department of agriculture, efforts that i hope will eventually result in longterm reliable markets for the United States agriculture. A great deal has happened in the nine months since you all appeared before this committee. Perhaps the most significant to our members was the successful package and enactment of the 2018 farm bill with the help of ev