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From: "Friedlander, Liz (Agriculture)" <Liz_Friedlander@agriculture.senate.gov>

Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 09:46:44 -0500

Subject: MEDIA ADVISORY: Senate Agriculture Committee to Hold Confirmation Hearing

 

FOR PLANNING PURPOSES

May 18, 2010

Contact: Courtney Rowe or Liz Friedlander, 202-224-2035

 

--Media Advisory--

 

Senate Agriculture Committee to Hold Confirmation Hearing

 

Washington – U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln D-Ark., Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today announced the Committee will hold a hearing to consider the nominations of Elisabeth A. Hagen, Catherine E. Woteki, Sara L. Faivre-Davis, Lowell L. Junkins, and Myles J. Watts.

 

The hearing will take place Wednesday, May 26, 2010 at 9:30 a.m. in the Senate Agriculture Committee Hearing Room, SR-328A.

 

Witness List

Panel I: USDA

Elisabeth A. Hagen, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety

 

Catherine E. Woteki, of the District of Columbia, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics

 

Panel II:  Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation

Sara L. Faivre-Davis, of Texas, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation

 

Lowell L. Junkins, of Iowa, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation

 

Myles J. Watts, of Montana, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation

 

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