Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Chairman Richard G. Lugar
Witness List
Hearing to Examine the Implications of the Proposed Tobacco Settlement
Opening Statement by Chairman Richard Lugar, U.S.
Senator for Indiana
Thursday, September 18, 1997
The Honorable Bob Etheridge
Representative from North Carolina
The Honorable Eva Clayton
Representative from North Carolina
Panel I
The Honorable Jeffrey A. Modisett
Attorney General, State of Indiana
Indianapolis, Indiana
The Honorable Thomas T. Irvin
Commissioner of Agriculture, State of Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia
Panel II
Dr. William Snell
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky
Dr. Bruce Gardner
Professor of Agriculture and Resource Economics
University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland
Panel III
Mr. Robert Jenkins
President, North Carolina Farm Bureau
Raleigh, North Carolina
Mr. Arnold Hamm
Flue-Cured Stabilization Association
Raleigh, North Carolina
Mr. William Sprague
President, Kentucky Farm Bureau
Louisville, Kentucky
Mr. Rod Kuegel
Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative
Lexington, Kentucky
Ms. Karen Armstrong-Cummings
Commodity Growers Cooperative Association
Lexington, Kentucky