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A Ceremony
Unveiling the Portrait
of
THE HONORABLE
COLLIN C. PETERSON
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Tuesday, April 5, 2011
1300 Longworth Building
Washington, D.C.
COMMITTEE PRINT
A Ceremony
Unveiling the Portrait
of
THE HONORABLE
COLLIN C. PETERSON
A Representative in Congress from the State of Minnesota
January 3, 1991-Present
Elected to the 102nd Congress
Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture
One Hundred Tenth through One Hundred Eleventh Congresses
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PROCEEDINGS
before the
COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE
U.S. House of Representatives
April 5, 2011
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A Ceremony
Unveiling the Portrait
of
THE HONORABLE
COLLIN C. PETERSON
COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE
U.S. House of Representatives
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
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The Honorable Collin C. Peterson
Collin Peterson was first elected to the U.S. House of
Representatives from the Seventh Congressional District of
Minnesota in 1990. His primarily rural and agricultural
district reaches from the Canadian border in the north, almost
to the Iowa state line in the south; along Minnesota's border
with North and South Dakota.
Peterson currently serves as Ranking Minority Member of the
House Agriculture Committee. He was named the Ranking Member of
the Agriculture Committee in January 2005 and then served as
Chairman from January 2007 until January of 2011. The House
Committee on Agriculture has jurisdiction over a wide range of
agriculture and rural development issues, including the Farm
Bill, renewable energy, disaster assistance, nutrition, crop
insurance, conservation, rural development, international
trade, futures market regulation, animal and plant health,
agricultural research, bioterrorism, forestry, and others.
Congressman Peterson grew up on a farm near Glyndon,
Minnesota and was educated in the local public schools. He
graduated from Minnesota State University-Moorhead in 1966 with
a double major in Business Administration and Accounting, and
also served in the North Dakota National Guard from 1963 to
1969. Before being elected to the House of Representatives, he
was a Certified Public Accountant and small business owner in
Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, and also served for 10 years in the
Minnesota State Senate.
In the 1960's, Peterson also found time to play guitar and
sing with a band known as ``Collin and the Establishment.'' He
is a musician, and in recent years he has performed with Willie
Nelson at Farm Aid concerts, jazz legend Lonnie Brooks, with
several other Members of Congress at the Grand Ole Opry in
Nashville, and with rock guitarist Jeff ``Skunk'' Baxter at
several Washington, D.C. venues. He is a member of the American
Legion's Ninth District Band.
Peterson has organized and played in Congressional rock
bands, including The Amendments and the Second Amendments. He
and his colleagues have performed at charity events in
Washington, D.C. The Second Amendments also performed for U.S.
troops in Germany, Kuwait, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan and
performed at WE Fest in Minnesota and Farm Aid in Illinois.
Peterson is a private pilot who often flies his own single-
engine plane to get around his large district and visit with
his constituency. He also is an avid outdoorsman who enjoys
hunting and fishing whenever time permits.
During his public service career, Peterson has been a
strong advocate for farmers and small business owners, and a
leader on both Federal tax policy and conservation issues. He
has been a leader on the last three Farm Bills passed by
Congress. He is a founding member of the conservative
Democrats' ``Blue Dog'' Coalition, which continues to be a
voice for fiscal responsibility and pragmatic government
policies.
Peterson has taken a leading role in Congress promoting
biofuels as a homegrown way for America to meet its growing
energy needs, and he has introduced legislation to expand
biofuel production and use. Peterson's leadership led to the
successful passage of the 2008 Farm Bill, which preserved the
safety net for farmers while making historic new investments in
food, farm and conservation programs that are priorities for
all Americans.
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About the Artist
Leslie W. Bowman is an award-winning portrait artist. An
honors graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, she
started her career as an illustrator of books for young readers
and produced more than 20 published titles. In 2004 Leslie
followed her passion for portraiture. Later that year she won
Best in Show at the Minnesota Lake Country Pastel Society's
Annual Juried Exhibit. She is also the recipient of the Pastel
Society of America's Board of Directors Award and The Art
Spirit Foundation/Dianne B. Bernard Gold Medal Award for
Excellence given in the Pastel 100 Competition by Pastel
Journal.
Combining the accuracy of traditional portraiture with the
directness of contemporary realism, Leslie's portraits
luminously reflect her subject's inner qualities to reveal a
likeness that radiates warmth as well as her subject's life and
values.
Her work hangs in the Rayburn Congressional Office Building
in Washington, D.C.; The Johns Hopkins Hospital Library in
Baltimore, MD; William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, MN;
The Rosalie Wahl Public Library in Lake Elmo, MN and in private
collections.
Leslie lives and works in Minneapolis, MN.
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Invocation
Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin
Chaplain, U.S. House of Representatives
Presentation of Portrait
The Honorable Frank D. Lucas
Chairman, Committee on Agriculture
Remarks
The Honorable Nancy Pelosi
The Honorable Bob Goodlatte
Address
The Honorable Collin C. Peterson
Unveiling of Portrait
The Peterson Family
Special Guest
The Honorable John A. Boehner
Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives
Leslie W. Bowman, Artist
Benediction
Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin
Chaplain, U.S. House of Representatives
The Unveiling and Presentation of the Official Portrait of
THE HONORABLE COLLIN C. PETERSON
TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 2011
House of Representatives,
Committee on Agriculture
Washington, D.C.
REMARKS OF DAVID A. BIEGING
Master of Ceremonies
Mr. Bieging. Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention. My name
is Dave Bieging, and I have the privilege of being able to call
Collin a friend since he arrived at the Minnesota Senate about 35
years ago.
I want to thank all of you for coming. A special thank you to the
sponsors of this effort who are listed in the program; most of all
to the U.S. Capitol Historical Society. I believe Paul McGuire is
here from the Historical Society, who has made this possible, and
we appreciate their work.
I want to recognize Debbie Smith from the House Agriculture Committee
staff, who has done more work on this than anybody else. Cherie
Slayton and Martha Josephson and all the staff have done a great
job.
It is first my privilege to introduce the Chaplain of the House of
Representatives Father Daniel Coughlin.
INVOCATION
Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin
Father Coughlin. Let us pray.
On the first floor of the Capitol Building over the door of the room of
H-130 are inscribed these words of Daniel Webster: ``When tillage
begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders
of human civilization.'' Tonight, Lord God, as we celebrate the
service and leadership of the Honorable Collin C. Peterson, we
stand with farmers, Minnesota constituents, House Delegates,
colleagues, and the Peterson family to praise and thank You, Lord,
for this down-to-Earth gentleman who has graced our lives and
served the people of this country with caring dignity and fortitude
through the years. May this portrait, Lord, which may reveal even
some of his inner strengths and musical nature, cast his living
memory upon this Chamber of hard work on behalf of the Agriculture
Committee in addressing the problems, enhancing the potential, and
protecting the benefits of farming in this Nation.
Lord, in the world of practical civilization, his is truly a great
American story which we refer to You tonight; a story of farming,
business, family, and government service. Bring his hopes and
dreams for his own family and for rural Americans across this land
to a realized blessing by Your divine providence both now and for
years to come. Amen.
Mr. Bieging. And now I will introduce the gentleman whose room we are
standing in, the new Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee
from Oklahoma, Frank D. Lucas.
PRESENTATION OF THE PORTRAIT BY HON. FRANK D. LUCAS
Chairman, Committee on Agriculture
The Chairman. Thank you, David.
And thank you all for coming today.
This is a very important and a very auspicious occasion to come to the
main hearing room of the House Agriculture Committee. I think most
of you in this room, who have been a part of the process, know that
by history and by action, the Agriculture Committee has been one of
the least partisan and most certainly one of the most bipartisan
committees in Congress. Now, that's not to say that we don't have
disagreements based on regional perspectives or disagreements
between commodity perspectives, but the fact of the matter is the
46 people who work very diligently in this room for rural American
production ag, when we write a Farm Bill, we come together.
I have served with Collin in this room for almost two decades, and I
have personally watched the relationship between Mr. de la Garza
and Mr. Roberts in the 1996 Farm Bill, the relationship between Mr.
Combest and Mr. Stenholm in the 2002 Farm Bill, and, yes, the
relationship between Mr. Peterson and Mr. Goodlatte in the 2008
Farm Bill, that relationship of Chairman and Ranking Member, no
matter which was which, working together. At this time next year,
we will be in the process of crafting another Farm Bill, and I
think I am very certain when I say, yes, I might be a conservative
Republican, but my Blue Dog Democratic friend back here and I will
have that same kind of a relationship as we work to put the 2012
Farm Bill together.
You know, Collin, not many people get to bring their own band to their
event. Maybe I am a little envious. Maybe I'm a lot envious. But
thank you all for coming today to the Agriculture Committee room on
this very important occasion.
Mr. Bieging. And now I would like to introduce the Democratic Leader of
the House, Nancy Pelosi.
REMARKS OF THE HONORABLE NANCY PELOSI
Ms. Pelosi. Thank you very much, David. It's really a great honor for
me, as Leader, to be here with so many colleagues on both sides of
the aisle, some Members, some former Members, all here to sing the
praises and applaud the great leadership of Chairman and now
Ranking Member Collin Peterson.
Collin, this is the third time I have spoken at an unveiling of a
portrait: Tom Foley some years ago; Kika de la Garza, not that long
ago; and now the great honor of speaking as you have the unveiling
of your portrait. To be here with your family and friends, from
your colleagues, Senator Klobuchar making the trip all the way over
from the other side of the Capitol.
But let me say this: When the Father was speaking, he said, ``thank you
for this down-to-Earth gentleman.'' It sounded farm-like to me. My
remarks, should I read them, say that he is a man who never forgets
his roots. Sounds like farm talk to me. But we know him as a leader
in agriculture and the proud service he gave us in this room, and
he continues to do so.
Many of us have seen him on the Intelligence Committee, where he has
brought heartland values to the defense of our country, where he
has traveled the world to make judgments and to inform his
colleagues of his perspective on our national security and how we
protect the American people, which is our first responsibility. I
have seen him fight on the problems that the derivatives market had
caused to Main Street, as some who were reckless on Wall Street in
terms of derivatives affected joblessness on Main Street. And
Collin was there. And he knows his stuff. You know, he just knows
his stuff. So if he's in the room or he's at the conference table,
you know that the American consumer, the American investor, the
American farmer, the American people will be protected.
I have also seen him at Farmfest in Minnesota, and that was a treat all
in itself. We went to Farmfest, and we went to a couple of their
stops to see an ethanol plant and then a turkey litter recycling
plant. That was very exciting.
When we were at Farmfest, I became familiar with a new delicacy, pork
chop on a stick. So I was eating all these pork chops. They were so
fabulous. And when we got to Marshall, which was our fourth stop,
and we flew there, a man came up to me and said, ``You really
enjoyed those pork chops on a stick, didn't you? I was the chef who
made them.'' And I said, ``Well, you know what, I am away from my
husband this weekend. If I could go home with the recipe for pork
chop on a stick, I would be redeemed.'' And he said, ``I just have
one word to say to you: butter. Slather it with butter.'' So
anyway, that's my gift to you this evening.
Many of us know Collin from Intelligence, he is a Member of Congress,
the Agriculture Committee, his great work with Mr. Goodlatte. I
learned more from Mr. Peterson when they were working together to
write that Farm Bill than on any subject ever in the Congress. And
he has a wonderful perspective, and you could see the love that he
has for the land, the respect that he has for farmers, the need for
the rest of us to know about all of that, and to have a bill that
was not only about farmers, it was about nutrition. It was about
conservation. It was about biofuels. It was a bill for the future.
So all of us have, in one way or another, come into his network, some
in one aspect of his legislative career, but all of us have danced
to his music, the Second Amendments. I see we are going to be
honored with that.
So, Collin, on behalf of all our colleagues in the Congress--and you
are right, Chairman Lucas, and thank you for your hospitality. This
has been a committee that has operated in a very bipartisan way as
a great example to the rest of the Congress. And so has the Second
Amendments band. They create great harmony in a bipartisan way. And
I know that the sooner I end, the sooner we will listen to the
music.
So I want to thank you for allowing me to be a part of this. And we are
all very curious to see what form this beautiful painting will
take. Thank you all very much.
Mr. Bieging. I see Secretary Tom Vilsack here.
Thank you for being here, Tom.
Chairman Gensler from the CFTC is here as well. Thank you for being
here.
Now I would like to call on the Congressman from the Star City of
Roanoke, Bob Goodlatte.
REMARKS OF THE HONORABLE BOB GOODLATTE
Mr. Goodlatte. Thank you.
Well, Collin, having just gone through this myself just a few years
ago, I know what a great experience, what a great honor this is.
And I know what a great process you've been through selecting an
artist. And we all want to see the work that has been produced. I
have given you a few suggestions about what I think should be in
there. I don't think you have taken them.
You know, Collin has been a pilot for many, many years, and that's
certainly something to consider for a portrait. He has been
shooting birds out of the sky for a long time. And his music makes
all of our hearts soar. But I like what Father Coughlin said
because I really think it's the most apt description of Collin
Peterson, and that is he's a down-to-Earth guy.
And I worked with Charlie Stenholm my first 2 years as Chairman, and
when Charlie didn't come back, I suddenly got Collin, who I had
known for many years, but hadn't worked with very closely. And we
had to build a relationship, and we did. And he's become a great
friend both when I was having the opportunity to be Chairman and
when he was Chairman. We had a great partnership. It didn't seem to
matter a whole lot how much input we had, who was holding the
gavel. I think, as Frank said, that's an indication of how this
Committee has worked in a very bipartisan way to get things done
for American agriculture. And certainly Collin Peterson has played
a key role in that over the last many years and is well deserving
of having this portrait, even if there is not a guitar or a rifle
or an airplane in it. I don't know what we are going to see in it.
But I'm glad that so many of his friends and our friends are out here
today to celebrate this day with him. And he certainly has my best
wishes and my thanks for being a great friend, a great partner for
American agriculture.
Collin, congratulations.
Mr. Bieging. And now without further ado, let's hear from Collin
Peterson.
REMARKS OF THE HONORABLE COLLIN C. PETERSON
Mr. Peterson. I get to speak before Speaker Boehner? You know how long-
winded I am, right?
Well, thank you very much. Thank you for all of you being here this
evening.
David, thank you for helping put this together.
And, Debbie, you did a great job. I did not want to do this. This is
not my style, you know? And she kept bugging me, and finally we
found an artist. And then the artist told me that I was going to
have to sit there for 3 or 4 hours. There's no way in hell that's
going to happen. So I did give her about 10 minutes to take some
pictures, and she came back with a sketch, and it was pretty good.
I thought it was fine. It was good as far as I was concerned. She
took about 10 minutes more of pictures. So that was quite a bit for
me to put up with. But anyway, we got them done.
So I see a lot of my colleagues here.
Senator Klobuchar, I appreciate you coming over.
She did a great job for us in Minnesota. We are counting on her to help
us get a good Farm Bill out of the Senate, and I know it's going to
happen.
We have a lot of my colleagues here. Don Young stuck around. My good
buddy, former Chairman Buck McKeon, another Chairman. I have a lot
of chairmen here. Chairman John Kline from Minnesota. Chip
Cravaack, a new Member from Minnesota. Jean Schmidt. Joe Baca. They
are bipartisan right up in front. I'm going to forget somebody. Tim
Walz. How could I forget Tim? And Mr. Boswell, Rosa DeLauro, John
Larson. Who am I missing? Mike Conaway. David Scott. Ralph Hall,
one of my oldest buddies. If Ralph will stick around, Ralph and I
do a wonderful rendition of Wolverton Mountain.
We have sung together how many times, Ralph?
Mr. Hall. About 100.
Mr. Peterson. Ralph and I are going to sing a little Wolverton Mountain
if you stick around.
I don't know who else I missed here. We have former Congressman Mike
Sandlin and Stephanie Herseth Sandlin. And Joe Donnelly. Larry
Kissell is here. Anyway, we have a great turnout. We appreciate you
all being here.
But I wanted to introduce my family, if I could. I have my father here.
He is Lauren Peterson. He is only 91 years old. So they came out.
And my son Sean, his wife Kristen, and my granddaughters Karly and
Karis right over here. They are from northern Minnesota, about 60
miles north of me. They teach school, both of them, up in northern
Minnesota. My middle son lives in Minneapolis, works for Microsoft,
and travels around the country some. And my youngest son Elliott,
and his wife Janae, and my granddaughter Tori. And Collin, my
grandson, who is 16 now, could not be here because he got one of
the leading roles in Phantom of the Opera. He is quite a musician
himself, singer, and they could not get away from the rehearsals
because they are going to start this weekend or whatever. So people
back home have told me I have got to hang in there another 9 years,
and then he will be able to run for Congress. They will never know
the difference.
Anyway, so they are all here. And then I have over 50 people from my
family. Back around are all my family. They brought a bus out from
Minnesota. There is 50 of them or so on the bus. It took them over
24 hours.
So I have six sisters. Why don't my sisters stand up. Carol, my oldest
sister; Connie, over here; and Mary, Karen, and Trish, and
Margaret. And the rest of the husbands and wives and nieces and
nephews. And last night we were over at the Capitol, and it was
quite a commotion trying to keep them all organized.
But we have a big family, and they're having a good time, except this
morning. They went to the White House for the White House tour, and
they get over there, and they're standing outside the White House,
and it poured. And they didn't have umbrellas and whatever, so they
got a little wet. But anyway, I very much appreciate everybody
being here.
It's been a tremendous honor for me to not only serve my district in
Minnesota for the last 21 years now, but also to have the
opportunity to serve on the Agriculture Committee and to be able to
have the opportunity to serve as Chairman. It doesn't happen for
very many people, and it's one of those deals where I was just in
the right place at the right time, and you know, things happen.
I had a great committee to work with. Bob Goodlatte couldn't have been
a better colleague. We overcame two vetoes and a lot of other stuff
that went on in between, but we got a good product out and were
successful, and there were many nights when I was not so sure that
we were going to be successful. I didn't get a whole lot of sleep
there for a couple of years.
And Larry Combest, I think, is here, too. There he is way in the back,
another one of our great former chairmen. And, Larry, I'm going to
say this: You know, you wrote the best Farm Bill except for the one
that Bob and I both wrote. But Larry did a great job as Chairman,
and we have, as was said earlier, a long history of bipartisanship,
working together for the good of America.
In this Committee it's not about Democrats and Republicans; it's about
what we think is the right thing for the country. And I am just
proud to be able to serve what I think are the real people in the
country. And I get a chance to go all over and meet folks in every
part of the United States, and that's been one of the joys of this.
And the farmers and the people that are in the rural areas, they're
the real people. They still make things. They make this country
work. They're the ones that supply most of the kids for the
military that keep this country safe. And they're the real deal. So
I am proud to be able to have been able to serve and do my part.
So thank you all very much for being here.
And what are we going to do now, Debbie? Okay. We're going to have my
dad. The Speaker is going to come over, Speaker Boehner. I guess
we're going to unveil it, and then you're going to make a speech.
REMARKS OF SPECIAL GUEST THE HONORABLE JOHN A. BOEHNER
SPEAKER, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Speaker Boehner. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome.
Mr. Peterson, that is your son. I know it doesn't look like him, but
that is your son.
Let me try to be brief because I know a lot of people have been
standing for a long time.
It's nice for me to be back in the Agriculture Committee. I certainly
have a lot of very good memories of serving in this room. And I
don't know how many of you are aware of this, but Collin and I came
to Congress together 21--well, 20 years and 5 months ago, whatever
it's been, and we came and served on the Agriculture Committee
together. It's not as though we agree every day on everything, but
we always had a very, very good relationship.
This is a nice portrait, but I am not sure that it captures the true
Renaissance man that we know as Collin Peterson. I mean, think
about this, how many people can fly an airplane, wield a guitar,
wield a gavel, wield a rifle and a voting card? But he's dangerous
with all of them is what I know.
Collin, I think you have said it best earlier. You know, we get an
opportunity to serve here in Congress, and we get to put our
fingerprints on a lot of history. But you know, we all come, we all
go. And the greatest part of our jobs is that we get to meet people
that we would have never met but for the fact that we were in
Congress and got to meet people in our districts who we would never
know, got to meet people all over the country that we would never
know, and got to work with people here that we would have never
known. I will get it out.
You know, Collin, you were introducing your brothers and sisters, and I
couldn't help but remember the one night that somebody asked me to
name my 11 brothers and sisters. I was fine, bang, bang, bang,
bang. I got through 10 of the 11. I am looking at my one brother. I
would see his face, but his name never came out. So a good job. You
almost missed the last one.
But anyway, Collin, I'm going to say thank you for your service to the
House, your service to the Agriculture Committee. I congratulate
you on your Chairmanship of the Agriculture Committee. And I know
it's a proud moment for you to have your portrait hung in this room
where you've spent so many wonderful hours. And with that, it's my
great honor and privilege to accept this portrait into the
collection of the United States House of Representatives. Thank you
all very much.
Mr. Bieging. Mr. Speaker, it says a lot about you and a lot about your
relationship with Collin that you are here. I think you are the
busiest man in Washington today.
I want to introduce to you the artist who has painted this wonderful
portrait, Leslie Bowman, based in Minneapolis. She paints portraits
around the country. She does a terrific job. She is a wonderful
person to work with as well. Say hello and thanks to Leslie Bowman.
REMARKS OF LESLIE W. BOWMAN
Ms. Bowman. I just want to say thank you very much. Thank you,
Congressman Peterson, for the 20 minutes. I didn't realize how
valuable they were until now. And I have to thank Debbie and
Cherie, who really made this thing happen. It's a real honor. Thank
you all very much.
Mr. Bieging. Okay. Well, I think that's it. We are going to have the
Chaplain come up here in a second. The band is going to fire up
here shortly. So anybody that wants to can stick around.
Mr. Peterson. We have a new Member, Steve Fincher, who is a new Member
from Tennessee that was elected last year. He is on the Agriculture
Committee. It turns out he is an accomplished bass player and
singer. His family has a gospel music business, I guess. His dad
and uncles have been singing for 60 years, and so he has joined the
band. We still haven't found a Member that is a drummer. So we are
still relying on former--oh, there he is. This is Mr. Fincher. He
is now one of my good buddies. He is a heck of a musician.
Kenny Hulshof, who a lot of you know, was a Congressman from Missouri
for many years and ran for Governor in 2008. He was not successful,
but now he is back as a lawyer or whatever, a lobbyist. I guess you
don't like being called a lobbyist. So he is here when we're here.
So we have got him back in the band. So we're counting him as a
Member, too.
So we are, as far as we know, the only Congressional, parliamentary and
rock and roll band in the world, and we have a good time.
Anyway, thank you all very much. And we'll get to the Chaplain.
BENEDICTION
Reverend Daniel P. Coughlin
Reverend Coughlin. We are going to ask for God's blessing while they
get set up.
May the Lord bless and increase crops and livestock for us and products
of this Earth. May continued efforts to the science, conservation,
and investment enhance the future of America's growth.
Lord, bless the efforts of the House Agriculture Committee, its
Members, and staff. May their collaborative work better the family
life of America's farmers and feed the hungry wherever they may be.
God, our Creator, bless Congressman Collin C. Peterson, his family, and
friends. Grant him health, happiness, peace of heart, and joyful
music now and forever. Amen.
[Whereupon, at 6:33 p.m., the portrait unveiling concluded.]
Guests
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COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE
111TH CONGRESS
COLLIN C. PETERSON, Minnesota, Chairman
TIM HOLDEN, Pennsylvania, FRANK D. LUCAS, Oklahoma, Ranking
Vice Chairman Minority Member
MIKE McINTYRE, North Carolina BOB GOODLATTE, Virginia
LEONARD L. BOSWELL, Iowa JERRY MORAN, Kansas
JOE BACA, California TIMOTHY V. JOHNSON, Illinois
DENNIS A. CARDOZA, California SAM GRAVES, Missouri
DAVID SCOTT, Georgia MIKE ROGERS, Alabama
JIM MARSHALL, Georgia STEVE KING, Iowa
STEPHANIE HERSETH SANDLIN, South RANDY NEUGEBAUER, Texas
Dakota K. MICHAEL CONAWAY, Texas
HENRY CUELLAR, Texas JEFF FORTENBERRY, Nebraska
JIM COSTA, California JEAN SCHMIDT, Ohio
BRAD ELLSWORTH, Indiana ADRIAN SMITH, Nebraska
TIMOTHY J. WALZ, Minnesota DAVID P. ROE, Tennessee
STEVE KAGEN, Wisconsin BLAINE LUETKEMEYER, Missouri
KURT SCHRADER, Oregon GLENN THOMPSON, Pennsylvania
DEBORAH L. HALVORSON, Illinois BILL CASSIDY, Louisiana
KATHLEEN A. DAHLKEMPER, CYNTHIA M. LUMMIS, Wyoming
Pennsylvania THOMAS J. ROONEY, Florida
BOBBY BRIGHT, Alabama
BETSY MARKEY, Colorado
FRANK KRATOVIL, Jr., Maryland
MARK H. SCHAUER, Michigan
LARRY KISSELL, North Carolina
JOHN A. BOCCIERI, Ohio
SCOTT MURPHY, New York
WILLIAM L. OWENS, New York
EARL POMEROY, North Dakota
TRAVIS W. CHILDERS, Mississippi
WALT MINNICK, Idaho
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Robert L. Larew, Chief of Staff
Andrew W. Baker, Chief Counsel
Liz Friedlander, Communications Director
Nicole Scott, Minority Staff Director