A Ceremony 

Unveiling the Portrait 

of 

THE HONORABLE 

FRANK D. LUCAS 

Tuesday, June 23, 2015 

1300 Longworth Building 

Washington, D.C. 


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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 

PROCEEDINGS 

before the 

COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE 

U.S. House of Representatives 

June 23, 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. 

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 

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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 

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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. 

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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.] 

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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 21⁄2 years to pass a farm 

bill, he probably would have shot me. If somebody had told me it was 

going to take 21⁄2 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.] 

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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 21⁄2 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. 

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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 51⁄2 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 51⁄2 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? 

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[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. 

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[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. 

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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 21⁄2 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. 

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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 21⁄2 years of the farm bill. 

Again, thank you very much. 

[Applause.] 

[Whereupon, at 5:27 p.m., the ceremony was concluded.] 

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COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE 

113TH CONGRESS

FRANK D. LUCAS, Oklahoma, Chairman 

BOB GOODLATTE, Virginia, 

Vice Chairman 

STEVE KING, Iowa 

RANDY NEUGEBAUER, Texas 

MIKE ROGERS, Alabama 

K. MICHAEL CONAWAY, Texas 

GLENN THOMPSON, Pennsylvania 

BOB GIBBS, Ohio 

AUSTIN SCOTT, Georgia 

SCOTT R. TIPTON, Colorado 

ERIC A. ‘‘RICK’’ CRAWFORD, Arkansas 

SCOTT DESJARLAIS, Tennessee 

CHRISTOPHER P. GIBSON, New York 

VICKY HARTZLER, Missouri 

REID J. RIBBLE, Wisconsin 

KRISTI L. NOEM, South Dakota 

DAN BENISHEK, Michigan 

JEFF DENHAM, California 

STEPHEN LEE FINCHER, Tennessee 

DOUG LAMALFA, California 

RICHARD HUDSON, North Carolina 

RODNEY DAVIS, Illinois 

CHRIS COLLINS, New York 

TED S. YOHO, Florida 

VANCE M. MCALLISTER, Louisiana 

COLLIN C. PETERSON, Minnesota, Ranking 

Minority Member 

MIKE MCINTYRE, North Carolina 

DAVID SCOTT, Georgia 

JIM COSTA, California 

TIMOTHY J. WALZ, Minnesota 

KURT SCHRADER, Oregon 

MARCIA L. FUDGE, Ohio 

JAMES P. MCGOVERN, Massachusetts 

SUZAN K. DELBENE, Washington 

GLORIA NEGRETE MCLEOD, California 

FILEMON VELA, Texas 

MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM, New Mexico 

ANN M. KUSTER, New Hampshire 

RICHARD M. NOLAN, Minnesota 

PETE P. GALLEGO, Texas 

WILLIAM L. ENYART, Illinois 

JUAN VARGAS, California 

CHERI BUSTOS, Illinois 

SEAN PATRICK MALONEY, New York 

JOE COURTNEY, Connecticut 

JOHN GARAMENDI, California 

NICOLE SCOTT, Staff Director 

KEVIN J. KRAMP, Chief Counsel 

TAMARA HINTON, Communications Director 

ROBERT L. LAREW, Minority Staff Director 

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