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. A. Blake Brown
Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, North Carolina

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