[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 23 (Monday, February 26, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D135]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
FCA NATIONAL CHARTERS
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine issues related to proposed regulations of the Farm 
Credit Administration on national charters, which would remove the Farm 
Credit System's limitation of lending activity to certain geographical 
regions, and allow individual farm credit lending institutions to lend 
to farmers and other agribusinesses nationally, after receiving 
testimony from Representative Leach; Michael M. Reyna, Chairman/Chief 
Executive Officer, Farm Credit Administration; Bobby D. Williams, 
Heritage Land Bank, Tyler, Texas, and Jack Webster, Farm Credit 
Services of America, Omaha, Nebraska, both on behalf of the Farm Credit 
Council; Philip Burns, Farmers and Merchants National Bank, West Point, 
Nebraska, on behalf of the American Bankers Association; Dale Leighty, 
First National Bank of Las Animas, Las Animas, Colorado, on behalf of 
the Independent Community Bankers of America; and Peter J. Barry, 
University of Illinois Center for Farm and Rural Business Finance, 
Urbana.