MISSION OF FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL SERV- 

 ICE, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1993 



House of Representatives; Subcommittee on For- 

 eign Agriculture and Hunger; Committee on Ag- 

 riculture; Joint with Subcommittee on Informa- 

 tion, Justice, Transportation, and Agriculture; 

 Committee on Government Operations, 



Washington, DC. 

 The subcommittees met, pursuant to call, at 9:35 a.m., in room 

 1300, Longworth House Omce Building, Hon. Timothy J. Penny 

 (chairman of the Subcommittee on Foreign Agriculture and Hun- 

 ger) presiding, together with Hon. Gary A. Condit (chairman of the 

 Subcommittee on Information, Justice, Transportation, and Agri- 

 culture). 



Present from the Subcommittee on Foreign Agriculture and Hun- 

 ger: Representatives Penny, Stenholm, and Allard. 



Present from the Subcommittee on Information, Justice, Trans- 

 portation, and Agriculture: Representatives Condit, Thurman, 

 Woolsey, and Ros-Lehtinen. 



Also present: Representative E (Kika) de la Garza, chairman. 

 Committee on Agriculture, and Representative Pat Roberts, rank- 

 ing minority member, Committee on Agriculture. 



Staff present from the Committee on Agriculture: Gary R. Mitch- 

 ell, minority staff director; Jan Rovecamp, clerk; Jane Shey, Bruce 

 White, Anita R. Brown, and Lynn Gallagher. 



Staff present from the Subcommittee on Information, Justice, 

 Transportation, and Agriculture: Edward L. Armstrong, profes- 

 sional staff member; Aurora Ogg, clerk; and Diane M. Major, mi- 

 nority professional staff, Committee on Government Operations. 



OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. TIMOTHY J. PENNY, A REP- 

 RESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF MIN- 

 NESOTA 



Mr. Penny. The subcommittees will come to order. 



I want to welcome the House Commxittee on Government Oper- 

 ations, Subcommittee on Information, Justice, Transportation, and 

 Agriculture, for agreeing to work with us to sponsor this joint hear- 

 ing to review the mission of the Foreign Agricultural Service. 



With the dramatic changes in the political and economic climate 

 in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and Asia, it is appro- 

 priate to examine the programs and tools available to American 

 farmers and processors to export their agricultural products. At the 

 same time, we are seeing internal changes within the U.S. Depart- 



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