111th Congress 2009-2010

 

 

 

 


Thursday, June 25 – 10:00 a.m.
1300 Longworth House Office Building
Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management —Public Hearing.
RE: To review implementation of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008.


Panel I 

  • Mr. James Miller, Under Secretary of Agriculture, Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.

 

Wednesday, June 24 – 10:00 a.m.
1300 Longworth House Office Building
Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management —Public Hearing.
RE: To review implementation of the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008.


Panel I 


Thursday, June 11 – 2:00 p.m.
Full Committee on Agriculture —Public Hearing.
RE: To review pending climate legislation


Panel I

Panel II

  • Mr. Bob Stallman, President, American Farm Bureau Federation, Washington, D.C.
  • Mr. Steve Ruddell, Senior Associate, First Environment, Washington, D.C.
  • Mr. Earl Garber, Second Vice President, National Association of Conservation Districts, Basile, Louisiana
  • Mr. Fred Yoder, Past President and Climate Change Task Force Member, National Association of Corn Growers, Plain City, Ohio
  • Mr. Roger Johnson, President, National Farmers Union, Washington, D.C.
  • Mr. Ken Nobis, Treasurer, National Milk Producers Federation, St. Johns, Michigan

Panel III

  • Mr. Ford West, President, The Fertilizer Institute, Washington, D.C.
  • Mr. Glenn English, Chief Executive Officer, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Arlington, Virginia

 

Thursday, June 11 – 10:00 a.m.
Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research —Public Hearing.
RE: To review credit conditions in rural America

Panel I

  • Mr. Doug Caruso, Administrator, Farm Service Agency, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
  • Mr. Leland Strom, Chairman, Farm Credit Administration, McLean, Virginia

 

Panel II

  • Mr. Bob Frazee, President, Mid-Atlantic Farm Credit, Westminster, Maryland
  • Mr. Michael A. Gerber, President and Chief Executive Officer, Farmer Mac, Washington, D.C.
  • Mr. Fred Bauer, President/Chief Executive Officer, Farmers Bank, Ault, Colorado
  • Dr. Mark Drabenstott, Director and Research Professor, RUPRI Center for Regional Competitiveness, Truman School of Public Affairs, University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri
  • Mr. Patrick Sullivan, Economic Development Specialist and Agricultural Mediation Program Project Leader, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico

 

Wednesday, June 10 – 10:00 a.m.
Subcommittee on Rural Development, Biotechnology, Specialty Crops and Foreign Agriculture – Public Hearing.
RE: To review rural development programs operated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and status of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds for these programs

Panel I

  • Mr. Dallas P. Tonsager, Under Secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
  • Ms. Phyllis Fong, Office of Inspector General, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.

Panel II

  • Mr. Franklin Rivenbark, Commissioner, Pender County, on behalf of the National Association of Counties, Willard, North Carolina
  • Ms. Debra Martin, Director, Great Lakes Rural Community Assistance Partnership, Fremont, Ohio
  • Governor Chandler Sanchez, on behalf of the Pueblo of Acoma and the National Congress of American Indians, Acoma, New Mexico
  • Mr. Doug Anderton, General Manager, Dade County Water and Sewer Authority, on behalf of the National Rural Water Association, Trenton, Georgia
  • Mr. Tommy Duck, Executive Director, Texas Rural Water Association, Austin, Texas


Thursday, June 4 – 10:00 a.m.
Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management —Public Hearing.
RE: To review implications of the CFTC v. Zelener case


Panel I

  • Mr. Stephen J. Obie, Acting Director, Division on Enforcement, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Washington, D.C.
  • Mr. Daniel Roth, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Futures Association, Chicago, Illionis
  • Mr. Philip A. Feigin, Attorney, Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons, on behalf of Monex Deposit Company, Denver, Colorado

 

Wednesday, June 3 – 1:30 p.m.
Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry – Public Hearing.
RE: To review the future of forestry policy in the United States.

Panel I

  • Mr. Jay Jensen, Deputy Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, Washington, D.C.

Panel II

  • Mr. Clint Bentz, on behalf of the Oregon Tree Farm System and American Forest Foundation, Scio, Oregon
  • Mr. Steve Koehn, Maryland State Forester, on behalf of the National Association of State Foresters, Parkton, Maryland
  • Mr. Brian McPeek, North America Conservation Region Director, The Nature Conservancy, Denver, Colorado
  • Dr. Tom Monaghan, on behalf of the National Alliance of Forest Owners, Starkville, Mississippi
  • Mr. Jim D. Neiman, Vice President and CEO, Neiman Enterprises, Inc., Hulett, Wyoming
  • Mr. Matt Smith, on behalf of the Society of American Foresters, Falconer, New York

 

Thursday, May 21 – 10:30 a.m.
Full Committee on Agriculture —Public Hearing.
RE: To review low carbon fuel standard proposals.

Panel I

  • Mr. Brian Jennings, Executive Vice President, American Coalition for Ethanol, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
  • Mr. Tom Buis, Chief Executive Officer, Growth Energy, Washington, D.C.
  • Mr. Bob Dinneen, President and CEO, Renewable Fuels Association, Washington, D.C.
  • Mr. Carlos A. Riva, President and CEO, Verenium Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

Thursday, May 14 – 10:00 a.m.
Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture —Public Hearing.
RE: To review food safety standards for horticulture and organic agriculture.

Panel I

  • David W.K. Acheson, M.D., F.R.C.P., Associate Commissioner for Foods, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, Maryland
    • Accompanied by Steven M. Solomon, D.V.M., M.P.H., Assistant Commissioner for Compliance Policy, Office of Regulatory Affairs, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, Maryland
  • David Shipman, Acting Administrator, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.

Panel II

  • Joe Pezzini, Chief Operating Officer, Ocean Mist Farms, Castroville, California
  • Ron Ratto, President, Ratto Bros., Inc., Modesto, California
  • Philip LoBue, President, LoBue Bros., Inc., Lindsay, California
  • Nicholas C. Maravell, owner and operator, Nick’s Organic Farm, LLC, Potomac, Maryland
  • Steve Hirsch, Partner, Hirsch Fruit Farm, Inc., on behalf of Ohio Produce Growers and Marketers Association and Ohio Farm Bureau, Chillicothe, Ohio
  • Charles A. Wingard, Director of Field Operations, Walter P. Rawl & Sons, Pelion, South Carolina
  • Robert F. Stovicek, Ph.D., President and Chairman of Primus Group, Inc., Santa Maria, California

Wednesday, May 6 – 11:00 a.m.
Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy and Research—Public Hearing.
RE: To review the impact of the indirect land use and renewable biomass provisions in the renewable fuel standard.

Panel I

  • Dr. Joe Glauber, Chief Economist, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
  • Ms. Margo T. Oge, Director, Office of Transportation and Air Quality, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C.

Panel II

  • Dr. Bruce A. Babcock, Director, Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
  • Mr. Michael Pechart, Deputy Secretary for Marketing and Economic Development, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
  • Mr. R. Brooke Coleman, Executive Director, New Fuels Alliance, Boston, Massachusetts
  • Mr. Manning Feraci, Vice President of Government Affairs, National Biodiesel Board, Washington, D.C.
  • Mr. Nick Bowdish, General Manager, Platinum Ethanol, Arthur, Iowa
  • Ms. Anitra Webster, family forest owner, on behalf of American Forest Foundation, Lynchburg, Virginia

 

Tuesday, May 5 – 2:00 p.m.
Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry —Joint Public Hearing with the Committee on Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology.
RE: To review the National Animal Identification System.

Panel I

  • Dr. John R. Clifford, Deputy Administrator for Veterinary Services, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
  • Dr. Thomas McGinn, Chief Veterinarian, Office of Health Affairs, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Washington, D.C.

Panel II

  • Dr. David C. Smith, Assistant Director, Division of Animal Industry, New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, Albany, New York
  • Dr. Jerry R. Gillespie, Former Director of Western Institute for Food Safety and Security, University of California, Davis, Hopland, California
  • Mr. Kevin M. Kirk, Special Assistant to the Division Director, Michigan Department of Agriculture, Animal Industry Division, Lansing, Michigan

 

Wednesday, April 29 – 10:30 a.m.
Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition, and Forestry—Public Hearing.
RE: To review the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights.

 

Panel I

  • The Honorable Dr. Joe Leonard, Jr., Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
  • Ms. Lisa Shames, Director, Natural Resources and Environment Division, U.S. Government Accountability Office, Washington, D.C.

 

Thursday, April 23 – 1:00 p.m.
Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry—Public Hearing.
RE: To review Federal food safety systems at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Panel I

  • Mr. Alfred V. Almanza, Administrator, Food Safety and Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.

Panel II

 

Wednesday, April 22 – 10:00 a.m.
Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management—Public Hearing.
RE: To review producers’ views on the effectiveness and operations of the Federal crop insurance program.

Panel I

  • Dr. Chad E. Hart, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
  • Mr. Bob Stallman, President, American Farm Bureau Federation, Washington, D.C.
  • Mr. Roger Johnson, President, National Farmers Union, Washington, D.C.

 

Panel II

  • Mr. Rickey Bearden, cotton, grain and peanut producer, and Chairman, Crop Insurance Task Force, National Cotton Council, Plains, Texas
  • Mr. Steve Bennett, General Manager and Partner, Riverbend Nurseries, on behalf of the American Nursery and Landscape Association, Thompson's Station, Tennessee
  • Mr. Jarrod Spillman, sorghum, wheat, corn, soybean, sunflower and cow-calf producer, on behalf of the National Sorghum Producers, Hoxie, Kansas
  • Mr. John Owen, rice producer, and President, Northeast Louisiana Rice Growers Association, on behalf of USA Rice Federation, Rayville, Louisiana
  • Mr. Michael Robichaux, sugarcane farmer, on behalf of the American Sugar Cane League and the Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation, Franklin, Louisiana
  • Mr. Bing Von Bergen, wheat producer, President, Montana Grain Growers Association, Board Member, National Association of Wheat Growers, Moccasin, Montana
  • Mr. Mike Clemens, wheat, corn, soybean, sunflower, and dry bean producer, and Vice Chair, Public Policy Action Team, National Corn Growers Association, Wimbledon, North Dakota

 

Thursday, April 2 – 11:00 a.m.
Full Committee on Agriculture—Public Hearing.
RE: To review current food safety systems.

Panel I

  • Mr. Chandler Keys, III, Head of Government and Industry Relations, JBS, LLC., Washington, D.C.
  • Mr. David D. Dever, CEO and President, Pandol Brothers Incorporated, Delano, California
  • Mr. Tony DiMare, Vice President, DiMare Homestead, Inc., and DiMare Ruskin, Inc., Ruskin, Florida

Panel II

  • John Hanlin, Ph.D., Vice President Food Safety, SUPERVALU INC., Eden Prairie, Minnesota
    • Accompanied by Mr. Mike Erlandson, Vice President Government Affairs, SUPERVALU INC., Eden Prairie, Minnesota

Panel III

  • Elsa Murano, Ph.D., President, Texas A&M Univeristy, College Station, Texas
  • Michael Taylor, J.D., Research Professor, Department of Health Policy, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Washington, D.C.
  • Ms. Carol L. Tucker-Foreman, Distinguished Fellow, The Food Policy Institute, Consumer Federation of America, Chevy Chase, Maryland

 

Wednesday, April 1 – 11:00 a.m.
Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management—Public Hearing.
RE: To review the state of the farm economy.

 

Panel I

  • Dr. Joe Glauber, Chief Economist, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
  • Dr. Jason R. Henderson, Vice President & Branch Executive, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City—Omaha Branch, Omaha, Nebraska
  • Dr. Howard K. Gruenspecht, Acting Administrator, Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, D.C.

Panel II

  • Dr. Neil E. Harl, Charles F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor in Agriculture and Emeritus Professor of Economics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
  • Mr. Troy J. Dumler, Extension Agricultural Economist, Southwest Kansas State Research and Extension, Garden City, Kansas
  • Dr. J. Scott Angle, Dean and Director, College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
  • Dr. Mechel (Mickey) S. Paggi, Director, Center for Agricultural Business and Adjunct Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, California State University, Fresno, California

 

Tuesday, March 31, 2009 – 1:00 p.m.
Subcommittee on Rural Development, Biotechnology, Specialty Crops, and Foreign Agriculture—Public Hearing.
RE: To review innovative approaches to rural development.

Panel I

  • Mr. William Lambe, Associate Director, Community and Economic Development Program, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Government, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
  • Dr. Deborah M. Markley, Managing Director and Director of Research, RUPRI Center for Rural Entrepreneurship, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
  • Mr. Jeff Yost, President and CEO, Nebraska Community Foundation, Lincoln, Nebraska
  • Mr. Robert J. Thompson, Executive Director, Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments, and Vice-Chair, Rural Development Task Force of the National Association of Development Organizations (NADO), Auburn, Maine
  • Dr. Randy Smith, President, Rural Community College Alliance, Altus, Oklahoma

 

Thursday, March 26, 2009 – 10:00 a.m.
Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition, and Forestry—Public Hearing.
RE: To review the state of obesity in the United States.

Panel I

  • William Dietz, M.D., Ph.D., Director, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity Prevention, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Washington, D.C.

Panel II

 


Thursday, March 26, 2009 – 10:00 a.m.
Subcommittee on Rural Development, Biotechnology, Specialty Crops, and Foreign Agriculture—Public Hearing.
RE: To review tobacco production in the United States.

Panel I

  • Mr. Steve Troxler, Commissioner, North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Raleigh, North Carolina
  • Dr. A. Blake Brown, Agricultural Economist, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina
  • Dr. William M. Snell, Agricultural Economist, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky
  • Mr. Tommy Bunn, President, U.S. Tobacco Cooperative, Raleigh, North Carolina
  • Mr. Roger Quarles, Producer and President, Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association, Georgetown, Kentucky

 

 

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 – 10:00 a.m.
Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research—Public Hearing.
RE: To review the USDA administration of conservation program contracts.

Panel I

  • Mr. Robert Stephenson, Acting Deputy Administrator for Field Operations, Farm Service Agency, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
  • Mr. Dave White, Acting Chief, Natural Resources Conservation Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.

Panel II

  • Ms. Kathleen S. Tighe, Deputy Inspector General, Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.
  • Ms. Lisa Shames, Director, Natural Resources and Environment, U.S. Government Accountability Office, Washington, D.C.
  • Mr. John Jurich, Investigator, Committee on Agriculture, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009 – 10:30 a.m.
Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry — Public Hearing.
RE:  To review animal identification systems.

Witnesses:

Panel I

  • Dr. John R. Clifford, D.V.M., Deputy Administrator, Veterinary Services, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.

Panel II

  • Mr. Bill Nutt, President-Elect, Georgia Cattlemen’s Association, on behalf of National Cattleman’s Beef Association Cattle Health and Well-Being Committee, Cedartown, Georgia
  • Dr. R.M. (Max) Thornsberry, D.V.M., President of the Board, R-CALF USA, Richland, Missouri
  • Mr. Donald P. Butler, President, National Pork Producers Council, Clinton, North Carolina
  • Dr. Karen Jordan, D.V.M., Owner, Large Animal Veterinary Services, Co-owner, Brush Creek Swiss Farms, on behalf of National Milk Producers Federation, Siler City, North Carolina
  • Dr. W. Ron DeHaven, D.V.M., MBA, Chief Executive Officer, American Veterinary Medical Association, Schaumburg, Illinois

Panel III

  • Dr. Rob Williams, Counsellor (Agriculture), Embassy of Australia, Washington, D.C.
    • Accompanied by Mr. Dean Merrilees, Minister Counsellor (Agriculture), Embassy of Australia, Washington, D.C.
  • Mr. Kerry St. Cyr, Executive Director, Canadian Cattle Identification Agency (CCIA), Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Wednesday, February 4, 2009 – 10:30 a.m.
Full Committee on Agriculture — Public Hearing.
RE:  To review derivatives legislation.

Witnesses:

Panel I

  • Mr. Michael W. Masters, Managing Member / Portfolio Manager, Masters Capital Management, LLC, St. Croix, USVI
  • Mr. Johnathan Short, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, IntercontinentalExchange, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia
  • Mr. Gary W. Taylor, President, Cargill Cotton, on behalf of The National Cotton Council, American Cotton Shippers Association, and AMCOT, Cordova, Tennessee
  • Mr. Robert Pickel, Chief Executive Officer, International Swaps & Derivatives Association, New York, New York
  • The Honorable Joseph D. Morelle, Chair, New York State Assembly Standing Committee on Insurance, on behalf of National Conference of Insurance Legislators (NCOIL), Troy, New York

 

Panel II

  • Mr. Chris Concannon, Executive Vice President, NASDAQ OMX, New York, New York
  • Mr. Bill Hale, Senior Vice President, Grain and Oilseed Supply Chain, on behalf of Cargill, Incorporated, Wayzata, Minnesota
  • Mr. Karl D. Cooper, Chief Regulatory Officer, NYSE Liffe, LLC, on behalf of NYSE Euronext, New York, New York
  • Mr. Paul N. Cicio, President, Industrial Energy Consumers of America, Washington, D.C.
  • Mr. Mark C. Brickell, Chief Executive Officer, Blackbird Holdings, Inc., New York, New York

 

Panel III

  •  Mr. Thomas Book, Member of the Executive Board, on behalf of Eurex Deutschland and Eurex Clearing AG, Frankfurt, Germany
  •  Mr. Stuart Kaswell, General Counsel, Managed Funds Association, Washington, D.C.
  •  Mr. Edward J. Rosen, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP, on behalf of Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, New York, New York
  •  Mr. Brent M. Weisenborn, Chief Executive Officer, Agora-X, LLC, Parkville, Missouri
  •  Mr. Donald P. Fewer, Senior Managing Director, Standard Credit Group, LLC, New York, New York

Tuesday, February 3, 2009 – 1:00 p.m.
Full Committee on Agriculture — Public Hearing.
RE:  To review derivatives legislation.

Witnesses:

Panel I

  • Mr. Tom Buis, President, National Farmers Union, Washington, D.C.
  • Mr. John Damgard, President, Futures Industry Association, Washington, D.C.
  • Mr. Michael Greenberger, Law School Professor, University of Maryland School of Law, Baltimore, Maryland
  • Mr. Michael A. Gooch, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, GFI Group Inc., New York, New York
  • Mr. Sean Cota, President, Cota & Cota Inc., on behalf of Petroleum Marketers Association of America and New England Fuel Institute, Bellow Falls, Vermont
  • Mr. Terrance A. Duffy, Executive Chairman, CME Group Inc., Chicago, Illinois


Panel II

  • Mr. Daniel J. Roth, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Futures Association, Chicago, Illinois
  • Mr. Tyson Slocum, Director, Public Citizen's Energy Program, Washington, D.C.

 

 

 

 

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