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Number 132
Policy: Farm Bill Conference Committee Members Selected – Short Version (1:46 minutes)
Audio/Video Script:
Dr. Bobby Coats
Extension Economist
University of Arkansas, Division of Agriculture
Senate Farm Bill Conference Committee Members Selected - I’m Bobby Coats
Extension Economist University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture.
The Farm Bill Conference Committee will have six Senate Democrats and five
Senate Republicans, along with members of the yet to be announced House
conferees.
Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) the Chairman of the Senate Ag Committee and Senator
Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) Ranking Member of the Senate Ag Committee, on February 4,
2008, announced the names of the Senators who will join the farm bill conference
committee. The farm bill conference committee has the task of merging the Senate
farm bill with the House of Representatives’ version. Senator Harkin will chair
the conference committee.
The list of Democratic Senators selected for the conference committee: Chairman
of the Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus (D-MT); Chairman of the Senate
Budget Committee, Kent Conrad (D-ND); Chairman of the Senate Judiciary
Committee, Patrick Leahy (D-VT); Senate Agriculture Committee Member Senator
Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) and Senate Agriculture Committee Member Senator Debbie
Stabenow (D-MI).
The list of the Republican Senators selected for the conference committee in
addition to Ranking Member Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) are: Former Senate Agriculture
Committee Chairman Richard Lugar (R-IN), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance
Committee, Charles Grassley (R-IA); Ranking Member Senate Appropriations
Committee, Thad Cochran (R-MS); and Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS).
This has been Bobby Coats Extension Economist University of Arkansas Division
of Agriculture.
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