Witness List
Review of the Federal Crop Insurance Program
Tuesday, March 10, 1998

Opening Statement by Chairman Richard Lugar, U.S. Senator for Indiana
 

The Honorable Earl Pomeroy
Member of Congress, North Dakota

The Honorable Collin Peterson
Member of Congress, Minnesota

Panel I

Dallas Smith, Deputy Under Secretary, Farm and Foreign Agricultural Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture
 
Ken Ackerman, Administrator, Risk Management Agency
U.S. Department of Agriculture (will be available to answer questions)

Panel II

Ernest Ross, Chairman, American Association of Crop Insurers

Roger Swartz, American Farm Bureau Insurance Services, Inc., on behalf of the Crop Insurance Research Bureau  (Due to a severe snowstorm Mr. Swartz was unable to appear at the hearing but did submit testimony)

Robert Fulwider, Independent Insurance Agents of America
and, on behalf of the National Association of Crop Insurance Agents

Ed Vaughan, Lone Star Corn Growers Association, on behalf of the National Corn Growers Association, American Farm Bureau Association, American Soybean Association, National Association of Wheat Growers, National Barley Growers Association and National Grain Sorghum Producers

Phil Cyre, Vice President, South Dakota Farmers Union, on behalf of the National Farmers Union

Rawle King, an analyst with the Congressional Research Service, was available to answer Senators’ questions about federal insurance programs, other than crop insurance, and how States regulate private lines of insurance.