[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 16 (Tuesday, January 31, 2017)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E105]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  RECOGNIZING SCOTT GRAVES, STAFF DIRECTOR OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON 
                              AGRICULTURE

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                         HON. RALPH LEE ABRAHAM

                              of louisiana

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, January 31, 2017

  Mr. ABRAHAM. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize Scott Graves, the 
outgoing Staff Director of the House Committee on Agriculture. You have 
heard a lot of fine things about Scott today, and all of them are 
deserved. Instead of talking about what Scott has done for the members 
of the Ag Committee, or the greater agricultural sector, which would 
keep me here into next week, I would like to recognize Scott for what 
he has meant to my staff and to me.
   When I arrived here some two years ago I knew a fair bit about 
farming. I've been growing rice, corn and soybeans in the fertile lands 
of Northeast Louisiana most of my life. Scott has helped me take that 
experience and apply it to crafting our Nation's agriculture policies. 
Policies that help farmers and producers grow the finest commodities in 
the world and deliver them to dinner tables across the planet. Scott 
and his staff have been instrumental in helping my staff and I 
understand the finer intricacies of these policies and practices. They 
have gone to great lengths to help me, and all the members of the 
Committee, work to make sure the American farmer can not only endure, 
but prosper.
   Scott has spent 12 years working on Ag policy on the Hill, and his 
absence over at 1301 Longworth will be profoundly felt by many, myself 
included.

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