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                            COMMITTEE REPORT

                                                               
                                                               
                                A Ceremony

                           Unveiling the Portrait

                                   of

                             THE HONORABLE

                             FRANK D. LUCAS

        A Representative in Congress from the State of Oklahoma
                          May 10, 1994-Present

                      Elected to the 103d Congress
                Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture
     One Hundred Twelfth through One Hundred Thirteenth Congresses




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                              PROCEEDINGS

                               before the

                        COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

                     U.S. House of Representatives

                             June 23, 2015

                   U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE
                           WASHINGTON : 2015
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                               A Ceremony

                         Unveiling the Portrait

                                   of

                             THE HONORABLE

                             FRANK D. LUCAS

                        COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

                     U.S. House of Representatives

                         Tuesday, June 23, 2015

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                      The Honorable Frank D. Lucas

          If you look very closely at my official bio, I am a 
        farmer who is a Member of Congress, not a Member of 
        Congress who is a farmer--a very important distinction.

    Congressman Frank Lucas is a fifth generation Oklahoman 
whose family has lived and farmed in Oklahoma for more than 100 
years. Born on January 6, 1960 In Cheyenne, Oklahoma, Lucas 
graduated from Oklahoma State University in 1982 with a degree 
in Agricultural Economics. He was first elected to the United 
States House of Representatives in a special election in 1994.
    Lucas proudly represents Oklahoma's Third Congressional 
District, which includes all or portions of 32 counties in 
northern and western Oklahoma, stretching from the Oklahoma 
Panhandle to parts of Tulsa, and from Yukon to Altus in the 
Southwest. It takes up almost \1/2\ the state's land mass and 
is one of the largest agricultural regions in the nation.
    As a lifelong farmer and rancher, Lucas has been a strong 
voice for American farmers and a central figure in shaping 
agricultural policy in Congress. In 2011, he made history as 
the first Oklahoman to ever be elected as Chairman of the House 
Committee on Agriculture.
    Under his leadership, the Agricultural Act of 2014, 
otherwise known as the farm bill, was enacted. This law marked 
a new era of farm and food policy that valued saving money, 
reforming and repealing government programs, and yet still 
providing an effective safety net for the production of our 
national food and fiber supply and for those Americans who are 
struggling.
    Congressman Lucas also serves on the Committee on Financial 
Services and as Vice Chair on the Committee on Science, Space, 
and Technology.
    Prior to his service in the U.S. Congress, Lucas served for 
nearly 6 years in the Oklahoma State House of Representatives 
where he fought to defend the rights of private property owners 
and focused on promoting agriculture issues.
    Frank and his wife Lynda have three children and two 
grandchildren. The Lucas family belongs to the First Baptist 
Church in Cheyenne.
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                            About the Artist

    Born and raised in Michigan, Robert Anderson was educated 
at Yale University and the Boston School of the Museum of Fine 
Arts. His tours of duty in the U.S. Navy included Vietnam 
combat service with the Mobile Riverine Force in the Mekong 
Delta. His studio is in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts.
    Notable commissions include the official portraits of 
former Massachusetts Governors, William F. Weld and Edward J. 
King, Former Yale Chaplain and SANE/FREEZE President William 
Sloane Coffin, and a double portrait of former MIT President 
and Mrs. Paul Gray. In 2002 President George W. Bush selected 
Mr. Anderson to paint his portrait for the Yale Club of New 
York City. Mr. Anderson's portrait of former Massachusetts 
Senator Edward W. Brooke was chosen by the Senator to appear on 
the jacket cover of his recently published autobiography, 
Bridging the Divide--My Life--Senator Edward W. Brooke.
    Mr. Anderson was selected by the White House to paint the 
official portrait of President George W. Bush for the National 
Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, 
D.C. It was unveiled on December 19, 2008. His portrait of 
former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan was unveiled at 
the Federal Reserve Board headquarters in Washington, D.C., in 
August of 2010. Recently Mr. Anderson was commissioned to paint 
portraits of former Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner for the 
U.S. Department of the Treasury and for the New York Federal 
Reserve.

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                             P R O G R A M

Master of Ceremonies
                Honorable Jim Dunlap
Invocation
                Honorable K. Michael Conaway
                Chairman, Committee on Agriculture, U.S. House of 
                    Representatives

Remarks
                The Honorable John A. Boehner
                Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives
                The Honorable Collin C. Peterson
                The Honorable Kevin McCarthy

Presentation of Portrait
                Ms. Lynda Lucas and Ms. Lauren McDaniel

Address
                Honorable Frank D. Lucas
       The Unveiling and Presentation of the Official Portrait of

                      THE HONORABLE FRANK D. LUCAS

                         TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 2015
                          House of Representatives,
                             Committee on Agriculture
                                                       Washington, D.C.

                       REMARKS OF HON. JIM DUNLAP

                          Master of Ceremonies
The ceremony began at 4:54 p.m. in Room 1300, Longworth House Office 
    Building.
Mr. Dunlap. Ladies and gentlemen, if we could, I know it is amazing, 
    but we are going to start on time for a government operation here 
    tonight.
My name is Jim Dunlap, and for the past 2 years I have been honored to 
    be part of this night coming and the dedication of this portrait. 
    And to let you know how I got this assignment, 27 years ago I was 
    assigned to the back row of the Oklahoma House of Representatives 
    desk alongside a guy named Frank Lucas, and we immediately became 
    close personal friends. And tonight it is truly a great honor to be 
    with you here to celebrate his service to our State.
It is only appropriate that we would start any event here with an 
    invocation. And, with that, I would like to call on the Honorable 
    K. Michael Conaway to give us our invocation.

                               INVOCATION

                      Honorable K. Michael Conaway
The Chairman. Please join me in a prayer.
Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you, Lord, for the multitude of 
    blessings that you have bestowed upon our country. We ask, Lord, 
    that we continue to be worthy of those blessings as we seek to do 
    your will within this world.
Thank you for the responsibilities that we have here on the Agriculture 
    Committee. Thank you for Frank Lucas' leadership of the last 6 
    years. Lord, we ask for wisdom and guidance, that we may govern 
    this great Nation. Forgive us where we fail thee, Jesus.
We ask these things in your precious name. Amen.
Mr. Dunlap. All right.
Tonight I would like to thank our sponsors--they are listed in your 
    program--who have helped to put this event together and the 
    portrait of course. But, more importantly, I think the people I 
    would like to introduce first is the family of Frank Lucas.
Joining us tonight, Julie O'Neil, his sister, with her husband, Randy, 
    and their children, Caitlyn and John; Frank's mom, Brilla Lucas, is 
    with us here tonight; his daughters, Jessica McDaniel and her 
    daughter, Lauren, who you will meet again in a few moments; 
    daughter Ashlea Yager, her husband, Nehemiah, and their son, 
    Tristan, who is just in a crib; and his son, Grant. And Grant I saw 
    born, so I know that Grant has never known his father not in public 
    office. And, truly, his family has given so much to the State of 
    Oklahoma and to its country.
But who has given more than most is his wife, Lynda.
And, Lynda, we truly do appreciate everything you have done for us.
[Applause.]
Mr. Dunlap. I was going to go into some great stories about Frank 
    because I have known him for 27 years. If any of you want them 
    later, you can call on me.
But it is a very great honor for me to very quickly get to the special 
    guest of honor tonight, the Speaker of the United States House of 
    Representatives, Congressman John Boehner.
[Applause.]

         REMARKS OF SPECIAL GUEST THE HONORABLE JOHN A. BOEHNER

                 SPEAKER, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Speaker Boehner. Well, let me just say a big welcome to all of you, a 
    big welcome to our colleagues, past and present. And we even have a 
    couple of Senators over here. But welcome to all of you.
And, Frank, it is good to be here. And it is good that Lynda is here, 
    still putting up with you. I know who puts up with who here, and I 
    know who is in charge.
But, listen, I remember over 20 years ago when Frank won a special 
    election in Oklahoma and started something that no one would have 
    ever believed would turn out the way it did.
But I remember, when Frank got here and got on the Agriculture 
    Committee, he had to deal with me. I spent 16 years here on the 
    Committee. Frankly, I learned more than I ever thought I ever 
    wanted to know about agriculture.
And, at one point, Frank was--he kept looking at me like I had rocks in 
    my head. I was kind of a free market guy, and Frank wasn't.
[Laughter.]
Speaker Boehner. I had to teach Frank a few things along the way, some 
    of which he learned from, others he just ignored. Probably smart on 
    his part.
And then, at one point, there was this rumor going around that I was 
    going to leave the Education and Workforce Committee and come back 
    and be the chair of the House Agriculture Committee. And Frank came 
    to me one day and said, ``This isn't true, is it?'' No, it is not.
[Laughter.]
Speaker Boehner. I see we have some former chairmen here: Mr. Roberts, 
    who I served under; and I see Mr. Peterson over here and the 
    current chairman, Mr. Conaway.
But, listen, Frank, as you all know, is a great Member. He listens, he 
    works hard. He gets along with people, works on both sides of the 
    aisle. And I am really proud of the job that he has done. We have 
    been friends for a long time and have done an awful lot of really 
    good things together.
Now, if I had told him it was going to take 2\1/2\ years to pass a farm 
    bill, he probably would have shot me. If somebody had told me it 
    was going to take 2\1/2\ years to pass a farm bill, I would have 
    shot myself.
[Laughter.]
Speaker Boehner. And Frank and I understood each other. Just, we had 
    too many people who got in the way who knew nothing about a farm 
    bill.
But I really do appreciate how Frank persevered, and persevered through 
    all the hoops he had to jump through in order to finally get the 
    farm bill passed. But I knew, with his work, it would happen.
And so congratulations to you, Frank. And, on behalf of the House, it 
    is my pleasure to accept this portrait that we are going to see at 
    some point into the House Gallery.
Thank you all for being here.
[Applause.]
Mr. Dunlap. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Frank is humbled by this attendance. I know Stacy has been going crazy 
    all day trying to make sure how we were going to fit everybody in 
    here, and it is a wonderful honor that everybody is here tonight.
The Speaker mentioned the Honorable Collin C. Peterson, Ranking Member 
    of the House Committee on Agriculture, and I would like to have him 
    come to the podium to make a few remarks himself.
[Applause.]

              REMARKS OF THE HONORABLE COLLIN C. PETERSON
Mr. Peterson. Thank you very much, and I appreciate the invitation to 
    be here. Frank said I have to say some good things about him. That 
    is a tough job. No.
[Laughter.]
Mr. Peterson. Frank and I go back--well, I was here when he came in 
    1994. And we started to get to know each other on the Bob Smith 
    world tour. And some of you remember Chairman Smith, who was 
    Chairman for 2 years, and he did a lot of traveling. Bob, Frank, 
    and I were on a number of those trips, and Lynda, and got to know 
    each other a little bit. The Speaker was on one of them.
So we started off getting to know each other that way. We have 
    districts that are very similar. He has 32 counties; I have 38. He 
    has \1/2\ of Oklahoma; I have \1/2\ of Minnesota. It took him three 
    elections to get elected to the State house; it took me three 
    elections to get elected to Congress. And we are both farm kids. I 
    guess 100 years, more than 100 years in your family--fifth-
    generation farmer. Our family started farming in 1892, I think it 
    was, in the Red River Valley in Minnesota.
And the one thing that being in agriculture back in the fifties, 
    sixties, taught you was perseverance. And, I had to have 
    perseverance to get the 2008 Farm Bill done. It took a year and a 
    half. Frank had to have perseverance to get the 2014 Farm Bill 
    done. It took 2\1/2\ years.
And, Mr. Conaway, I don't know. Good luck.
[Laughter.]
Mr. Peterson. It gets harder and harder, it seems like, to get these 
    farm bills done because there are fewer and fewer of us that 
    represent rural America and farm districts. Probably only about 40 
    of us.
And even in Minneapolis, 30 years ago, everybody was kind of one 
    generation off the farm, and they understood what goes on. Now, 54 
    percent of the people in Minneapolis-Saint Paul are from out of 
    State, and it is just a whole different world that we have to deal 
    with.
So it is harder and harder, but Frank did an outstanding job. When he 
    first got to be Chairman, it took us 2 or 3 months to iron out the 
    wrinkles and get the staffs to figure out how to work together, but 
    we got through that. And, after that, we really didn't have any 
    problems. And if it had been up to Frank and I, that bill would 
    have got done in 6 months.
[Laughter.]
Mr. Peterson. It was all the outside forces that came in that we had to 
    deal with. And I had to deal with that when I was Chairman, as 
    well.
Frank just did a masterful job. He is a great Member, as John said. He 
    listens to people; he works hard. And his heart is in the right 
    place. He represents the people that sent him here to Washington, 
    and what he believes and what they care about ends up in the 
    legislation that he works on.
We also have the Chairman and the Ranking Member, who were vice versa 
    when we did the farm bill, with us as well. And they were part of 
    the ongoing saga that we had with getting the bill done, and we all 
    figured out how to work together after a fashion.
So, with that, you have a lot of other people to listen to. So, Frank, 
    congratulations. Great job. And I am just pleased to be here to 
    recognize that and be part of this ceremony.
[Applause.]
Mr. Dunlap. I was going to try to start going through the delegation, 
    but I can't see around the room; there are so many people here. So 
    we are just going to say that--I know the Oklahoma Delegation is 
    here, and Frank is very honored that you would take time to make 
    sure that you are part of this ceremony also.
When I met Frank, we were deskmates, and 5\1/2\ years later a special 
    election came open in Oklahoma. And for about 4 months, my job was 
    to tell him to vote ``yes'' or ``no'' as he ran back onto the floor 
    from raising money. And our districts are very different, and so I 
    would have to tell him to vote ``no'' when I was voting green or 
    vice versa. And he would look at me kind of funny, and I would say, 
    ``Just go do your job.''
And he came back on the floor one day, and he was coming up to 
    Washington, D.C., for a fundraiser for himself that Mr. Gingrich 
    was going to host. And I said, ``Frank, I have known you 5\1/2\ 
    years. I have never heard you talk about that great trip to 
    Washington, D.C., and visiting the Lincoln Memorial and the great 
    times that you had in Washington,'' and this and that. He said, ``I 
    have never been there, Jim.''
I said, ``You are a heartbeat away from being the next Congressman from 
    Oklahoma.'' And he goes, ``Yes, and tonight is going to be--I am 
    going to learn it all in one night and be ready to go.''
[Laughter.]
Mr. Dunlap. I said, ``Okay.'' But, truly, that was who Frank was and is 
    today. And I am very proud to still call him a very close friend.
The next person to make remarks will be the Majority Leader of the U.S. 
    House of Representatives, the Honorable Kevin McCarthy. I hope he 
    has walked in since I have been standing up here.
Not here yet. All right.
So, with that, unless I get the high sign I am in real trouble up here, 
    I am going to ask--you all are being wonderful right now. We have a 
    video that we would like to show, and it is a video of the farm 
    bill. And you are going to have to be very quiet to be able to hear 
    it because we are only doing as much sound on this as we can.
So, with that, we are ready to start the video.
[Video shown.]
[Applause.]
Mr. Dunlap. And before we unveil the portrait, I would now like to ask 
    the Honorable Kevin McCarthy, the Majority Leader of the U.S. House 
    of Representatives, to come forward and make a few comments.
Congressman?
[Applause.]

                REMARKS OF THE HONORABLE KEVIN McCARTHY
Mr. McCarthy. Thank you very much.
It was kind of interesting watching that and reliving that. There were 
    some tough nights.
I will be very brief, but I want to give you a couple perspectives.
When I first came here as a freshman, I served on this Committee. One 
    of the first things I did, I went to former Members and current 
    Members that had been here a while, just to get their advice as a 
    freshman. And it was interesting; I had no perspective on what 
    advice they would give me, but you know the overwhelming advice 
    when I asked who I should listen to? It all came back, ``You should 
    listen to Lucas.''
He was going to sit in the back. And I had former Speakers tell me 
    this: ``He has been there longer than the others. He knows 
    everything that is happening, and he understands it.'' I went to 
    see him. I said, ``I have to come see you. I have never met you 
    before, but you are the number-one person everybody tells me I need 
    to meet.''
And the interesting thing about--we all wonder what someone's character 
    is like. If you really want to see someone's character, give them 
    adversity. And no one had a tougher adversity as my time as being 
    whip as the farm bill.
And I remember that moment when the Ranking Member came over to tell us 
    it was going to go down. And we looked it right in the eye, and 
    Frank came back each time and said, ``We can get this done.'' And 
    no other Chairman has faced a tougher time.
But I have never heard you scream about it. And there were lots of 
    times I saw that you would want to.
[Laughter.]
Mr. McCarthy. But he took adversity and showed the rest of the 
    conference how to handle it. And he brought people that have never 
    voted for a farm bill over to vote for a farm bill. And that was a 
    tough time.
But when we think about leaders and we think about Chairmen, there is a 
    reason why this man will have a portrait, but there is a reason why 
    people will look up to this portrait. It is his character. It is 
    his leadership. And just as Members told me who to go seek out, I 
    think that will be the answer for a lot of freshman classes for 
    here to come in the future.
So I thank you for your leadership, I thank you for your time. And I 
    look forward to how good you look in the painting.
[Applause.]
Mr. Dunlap. At this time, I would like to ask Ms. Lynda Lucas and Ms. 
    Lauren McDaniel to come forward.
And the magic moment has arrived.
[Portrait unveiled.]
[Applause.]
Mr. Dunlap. Ladies and gentlemen, it is a great honor for me to present 
    a friend of 27 years, Frank Lucas.
[Applause.]

                REMARKS OF THE HONORABLE FRANK D. LUCAS
Mr. Lucas. My friends, thank you all for being here today, and thank 
    you for help making this possible.
If you will look at a picture of me from perhaps 3 or so years ago, 
    before the farm bill process----
[Laughter.]
Mr. Lucas.--you might notice the hair is a little darker, you might 
    notice a few less character lines in the face. But I would say 
    this: Of all the challenges that I have been a part of in my life, 
    most assuredly in the legislative process, the fact that we beat so 
    many expectations, the fact that we did such good work, Senator and 
    Senator--I would also note to you, if you notice the enthusiastic 
    look on Lauren McDaniel's face about pulling that string, that kind 
    of describes Speaker Boehner voting for the farm bill.
[Laughter.]
Mr. Lucas. But he knew then what needed to be done, just like Lauren. 
    And thank you, Lauren. He, too, did what needed to be done.
I have always said that I am a product of my background, of my 
    heritage, of my community, of my region. And I have always said 
    that the farm bill process, with its impact on rural America, is 
    just too important to not get right.
My family, my district, my area went through the abyss of the Great 
    Depression and the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, the horrible drought 
    through the 1950s, the economic near-depression in rural America of 
    the early 1980s. And, yes, the last 5 years have been an amazingly 
    dry period in the Southwest.
I have always said that I cannot address Mother Nature and the yield 
    that Mother Nature brings upon us; you will have to talk to the 
    Senators about that. But everything else----
[Laughter.]
Mr. Lucas.--everything else, making sure that perhaps the Federal 
    Government doesn't guarantee everything, contrary to my good friend 
    John Boehner's concerns.
But the real purpose of the farm bill is to make sure that the Federal 
    Government doesn't hurt people out in rural America, doesn't hurt 
    farmers and ranchers, doesn't inhibit the ability of them to do 
    their work, to feed and clothe us and the rest of the world. And 
    that is what my perspective about a farm bill is.
Well, I would be remiss if I didn't say thank you to Mr. Peterson. What 
    a challenge. What a challenge. Or, in all fairness, to the Majority 
    floor leader. As Whip, one of my greatest allies in this struggle. 
    One of my greatest allies in this struggle as we put the votes 
    together.
But, then, everyone in this room had a factor, a part, a piece in that, 
    whether it was my family that tolerated me, the loyal staff in the 
    personal office or in the Committee that tolerated me, my 
    colleagues who served with me, all of you who are in this room 
    trying to represent a perspective back home, trying to make sure 
    that we have an understanding of what we are doing in this body. 
    Thank you all for that help.
Uncle--and he doesn't like that at all, but I cannot help but call the 
    Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee ``uncle.''
[Laughter.]
Mr. Lucas. When he came to Oklahoma in 1994 and took me by the hand in 
    a special election----
Senator Roberts. Godfather.
[Laughter.]
Mr. Lucas. Yes, he took me by the hand, he didn't quite warn me as to 
    what all would be coming somewhere down the road. Although that 
    1996 Farm Bill was a little bit of a challenge, a little bit of a 
    challenge----
Senator Roberts. About a year and a half.
Mr. Lucas. About a year and a half. But it got done. It got done.
And Mr. Conaway has the challenge, working with Mr. Peterson, of 
    preparing to do all this again very shortly. The year and a half, 
    almost 2 years, the 2\1/2\ years on this last one--truly, Mike, 
    maybe you should have started the markup yesterday.
[Laughter.]
Mr. Lucas. Maybe you should have.
But, again, my friends, I said on the floor and I will conclude by 
    saying this: There is a perspective in the outside world that 
    Congress is a broken institution, that we are dysfunctional, all 
    sorts of horrible stuff. I know that is not true. I know I serve 
    with and you work with some of the best people in the world, some 
    of the most sincere folks. Perhaps a few of our colleagues might 
    not have as clear an understanding as we do, say, in rural America, 
    but nonetheless sincere.
And if every committee could be like the Agriculture Committee, working 
    for that common good, fighting by commodity groups, fighting by 
    region, but ultimately for the common good, then this would be a 
    better place, and the country would move forward.
I will now join the group of former Chairmen and give the great deal of 
    benefit of advice to Mr. Conaway as we work through this next 
    process: Never stop whispering in Mr. Peterson's ear. But, again, 
    together, we will work to do the right things for the right 
    reasons.
And thank you all for coming.
I would note that there are two rather substantial assortments of 
    natural, organic, health food drinks on both ends of the balcony 
    out there----
[Laughter.]
Mr. Lucas.--some of the most wonderful calories in the world on this 
    table. Let's enjoy a good time. Let's enjoy in the next few hours 
    as much fun and good fellowship as, shall we say, I created gray 
    hair over the last 2\1/2\ years of the farm bill.
Again, thank you very much.
[Applause.]
[Whereupon, at 5:27 p.m., the ceremony was concluded.]

                                 Guests
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                        COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE

                             113th Congress

                   FRANK D. LUCAS, Oklahoma, Chairman

BOB GOODLATTE, Virginia,             COLLIN C. PETERSON, Minnesota, 
    Vice Chairman                    Ranking Minority Member
STEVE KING, Iowa                     MIKE McINTYRE, North Carolina
RANDY NEUGEBAUER, Texas              DAVID SCOTT, Georgia
MIKE ROGERS, Alabama                 JIM COSTA, California
K. MICHAEL CONAWAY, Texas            TIMOTHY J. WALZ, Minnesota
GLENN THOMPSON, Pennsylvania         KURT SCHRADER, Oregon
BOB GIBBS, Ohio                      MARCIA L. FUDGE, Ohio
AUSTIN SCOTT, Georgia                JAMES P. McGOVERN, Massachusetts
SCOTT R. TIPTON, Colorado            SUZAN K. DelBENE, Washington
ERIC A. ``RICK'' CRAWFORD, Arkansas  GLORIA NEGRETE McLEOD, California
SCOTT DesJARLAIS, Tennessee          FILEMON VELA, Texas
CHRISTOPHER P. GIBSON, New York      MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM, New Mexico
VICKY HARTZLER, Missouri             ANN M. KUSTER, New Hampshire
REID J. RIBBLE, Wisconsin            RICHARD M. NOLAN, Minnesota
KRISTI L. NOEM, South Dakota         PETE P. GALLEGO, Texas
DAN BENISHEK, Michigan               WILLIAM L. ENYART, Illinois
JEFF DENHAM, California              JUAN VARGAS, California
STEPHEN LEE FINCHER, Tennessee       CHERI BUSTOS, Illinois
DOUG LaMALFA, California             SEAN PATRICK MALONEY, New York
RICHARD HUDSON, North Carolina       JOE COURTNEY, Connecticut
RODNEY DAVIS, Illinois               JOHN GARAMENDI, California
CHRIS COLLINS, New York
TED S. YOHO, Florida
VANCE M. McALLISTER, Louisiana

                                 ______

                      Nicole Scott, Staff Director

                     Kevin J. Kramp, Chief Counsel

                 Tamara Hinton, Communications Director

                Robert L. Larew, Minority Staff Director

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