Chairwoman Stabenow Opening Statement at…

Our farmers and foresters want constant entry to markets overseas to promote their merchandise. Agricultural exports add over $154 billion to the U.S. economic system every year, supporting greater than 1 million jobs, but producers persistently face unscientific and different nontariff commerce boundaries.

Congress acknowledged this within the 2014 Farm Invoice, once I labored with Senator Roberts and former Finance Committee Chairman Senator Baucus to determine the USDA Below Secretary for Commerce and Overseas Agricultural Affairs place. It’s becoming that Senator Baucus’s agriculture staffer throughout the 2014 Farm Invoice, Alexis Taylor, is earlier than us as we speak as we think about her nomination to fill that place.

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