March 2014
Subject: Statement by Thomas J. Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, to Discuss the Administration's priorities for the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and provide you an overview of the President's 2015 Budget (PDF, 79.1 KB)
Committee: House Agriculture, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
Witness: Joseph Glauber, USDA's Chief Economist, and Michael Young, USDA's Budget Officer
Date: March 14, 2014
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Subject: Statement of Kevin Concannon, Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services, to Present the Administration's fiscal year 2015 budget request for USDA's Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services (FNCS) (PDF, 77.6 KB)
Committee: House Agriculture, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies
Witness: Audrey Rowe, the Administrator of the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS)
Date: March 19, 2014
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Subject: Statement of Audrey Rowe, Administrator Food and Nutrition Service, to Testify on the programs and services administered by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) (PDF, 66.2 KB)
Committee: House Agriculture, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies
Date: March 19, 2014
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Subject: Statement by Thomas J. Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, discuss the Administration's priorities for the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and provide you an overview of the President's 2015 Budget (PDF, 80.0 KB)
Committee: House Agriculture, Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Committee on Appropriations, U.S. Senate
Witness: Joseph Glauber, USDA's Chief Economist, and Michael Young, USDA's Budget Officer
Date: March 26, 2014
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Subject: Statement of Dr. Catherine E. Woteki, USDA's Chief Scientist and Under Secretary, to Discuss the President's Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 budgets for the REE mission area agencies (PDF, 69.6 KB)
Committee: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
Witness: Dr. Chavonda Jacobs-Young, Administrator of the Agricultural Research Service (ARS); Dr. Sonny Ramaswamy, Director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA); Dr. Mary Bohman, Administrator of the Economic Research Service (ERS); and Dr. Cynthia Clark, Administrator of the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS); Donald Bice, the Associate Director of the Office of Budget and Program Analysis
Date: March 26, 2014
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Committee: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Committee on Appropriations U.S. House of Representatives
Witness: Ms. Anne Alonzo, Administrator of AMS; Mr. Kevin Shea, Administrator of APHIS; and Mr. Larry Mitchell, Administrator of GIPSA
Date: March 31, 2014
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Subject: Statement of Doug O'Brien,Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development, to Present the President's 2015 Budget for the Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Rural Development mission area (PDF, 77.5 KB)
Committee: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Committee on Appropriations, U.S. House of Representatives
Witness: Mr. John Padalino, Ms. Lillian Salerno and Mr. Tony Hernandez, Administrators for Rural Development's Utilities, Business and Cooperatives, and Housing and Community Facilities Programs, respectively; Mr. Michael Young, USDA's Budget Officer
Date: March 31, 2014
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Subject: Statement of Tom Tidwell, Chief of the USDA Forest Service, to Testify on the President's Budget request for the Forest Service for Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 (PDF, 88.7 KB)
Committee: House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
Date: March 31, 2014
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April 2014
Subject: Statement of Philip Derfler, Deputy Administrator, to Discuss the status of the agency's work to ensure the safety of meat, poultry, and processed egg products and to prevent foodborne illness (PDF, 50.2 KB)
Committee: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
Date: April 03, 2014
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Subject: Statement of Brian Ronholm, Acting Under Secretary for Food Safety, to Discuss the status of the agency's programs and policies (PDF, 72.1 KB)
Committee: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Committee on Appropriations, U.S. House of Representatives
Witness: Al Almanza, Administrator of USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and Michael Young, USDA's Budget Officer
Date: April 03, 2014
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Subject: Statement by Thomas Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, to Discuss the state of the rural economy (PDF, 72.8 KB)
Committee: House Committee on Agriculture
Date: April 03, 2014
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Subject: Statement of Juan Garcia, Administrator, to Provide information on Farm Service Agency (FSA) programs and funding (PDF, 64.3 KB)
Committee: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Committee on Appropriations U.S. House of Representatives
Date: April 08, 2014
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Subject: Statement of Phil Karsting, Administrator, to Report on the accomplishments of the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) and to present the President's Budget request for FAS programs in fiscal year (FY) 2015 (PDF, 82.7 KB)
Committee: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
Date: April 08, 2014
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Committee: House Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
Witness: Brandon Willis, Administrator of the Risk Management Agency; Phil Karsting, Administrator of the Foreign Agricultural Service; and Juan Garcia, Administrator of the Farm Service Agency. We also are accompanied by Michael Young, Director of the Office of Budget and Program Analysis, and Jason Weller, Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service
Date: April 08, 2014
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Subject: Statement of Jason Weller, Chief, NRCS, to Discuss the fiscal year 2015 budget request for the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) (PDF, 85.3 KB)
Committee: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Committee on Appropriations, U.S. House of Representatives
Date: April 08, 2014
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Subject: Statement of Brandon Willis, Administrator of RM, to discuss the 2015 budget for the Risk Management Agency (RMA) and the Federal Crop Insurance program (PDF, 56.6 KB)
Committee: Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies
Date: April 08, 2014
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Subject: Statement of Jeff Pettis, Research Leader of Agricultural Research Service, to Discuss a serious threat to the honey bee and thus our food security in the United States (PDF, 40.1 KB)
Committee: Subcommittee on Horticulture, Research, Biotechnology and Foreign Agriculture
Date: April 29, 2014
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Subject: Statement of Dr. Joseph Glauber, Chief Economist of USDA, to Testify on the State of the Livestock and Poultry Sectors (PDF, 896 KB)
Committee: U.S. House Committee on Agriculture, Subcommittee on Livestock, Rural Development And Credit
Date: April 30, 2014
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Subject: Statement of Tom Tidwell, Chief of the USDA Forest Service, to Testify on the President's Budget Request for the Forest Service for Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 (PDF, 74.8 KB)
Committee: Senate Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
Date: April 30, 2014
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May 2014
Subject: Statement of Doug O'Brien, Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development, to discuss USDA Rural Development's use of regional strategies in economic development (PDF, 68.8 KB)
Committee: Subcommittee on Jobs, Rural Economic Growth and Energy Innovation
Date: May 1, 2014
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Subject: Statement by Thomas Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, to provide an update on the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) progress in implementing the Agricultural Act of 2014 (2014 Farm Bill) (PDF, 127 KB)
Committee: Senate Committee on Agriculture
Date: May 7, 2014
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Committee: Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, Wildfires and Forest Management
Date: May 14, 2014
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June 2014
Committee: Congressional-Executive Commission on China
Date: June 17, 2014
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Committee: Committee on Agriculture; Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, And Forestry; United States House of Representatives
Date: June 19, 2014
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Committee: House Committee on Agriculture; Subcommittee on Livestock, Rural Development and Credit
Date: June 25, 2014
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July 2014
Committee: House Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management
Date: July 10, 2014
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Committee: House Committee on Energy and Commerce; Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Date: July 14, 2014
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Subject: Statement of John C. Padalino, Administrator, Rural Utilities Service, USDA, to Testify this morning regarding Future Investments in Broadband (PDF, 70.2 KB)
Committee: House Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock, Rural Development and Credit
Date: July 29, 2014
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September 2014
Committee: U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry
Date: September 4, 2014
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Subject: Testimony of Thomas Tidwell, Chief, Forest Service, USDA, to Provide perspective on the role of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in the stewardship of water resources on National Forest System (NFS) lands (PDF, 60.6 KB)
Committee: United States House Of Representatives Committee On Agriculture Subcommittee On Conservation, Energy And Forestry
Date: September 10, 2014
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Committee: House Committee on Agriculture
Date: September 17, 2014
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Subject: Testimony Of Jason Weller, Chief, Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA, to discuss the importance of soil health for our nation's agriculture, our environment, and our future (PDF, 100 KB)
Committee: Committee on Agriculture; Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry; United States House of Representatives
Date: September 18, 2014
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Committee: Senate Subcommittee on the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Federal Programs and the Federal Workforce - Sidney, Montana Field Hearing
Date: September 26, 2014
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December 2014
Committee: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry
Date: December 3, 2014