House Agriculture Committee Members will hear May 23 from USDA Secretary Ann Veneman and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick on agriculture's opportunities within the world's largest potential free trade zone, the Western Hemisphere. The Committee's May 23 hearing will be an opportunity for the Secretary and the Trade Representative to present a public report on the Bush Administration proposals, timetable for negotiations and discussion of the significant meaning the negotiations can have to American agricultural interests.
American farmers are the pioneering leaders of safe and dependable food.
The Agriculture Committee intends to assess the impact on American producers for agricultural markets opened within the democracies of the Western Hemisphere.