Opening Statement by Chairman, Richard G. Lugar
United States Sentor for Indiana

Rainer Nomination

Mr. William Rainer
Nominee for Commissioner and Chairman of the
Commodity Futures Trading Commission

FARMLAND PROTECTION PROGRAM

Panel 1

Mr. Richard Rominger
Deputy Secretary of Agriculture

Panel 2

Samuel E. Hayes, Jr.
Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture

Gus Seelig
Executive  Director
Vermont Housing and Conservation Board

Michael Fitzpatrick
County Commissioner, Bucks County Pennsylvania

Panel 3

Guy Donaldson
President, Pennsylvania Farm Bureau

Ralph Grossi
President
American Farmland Trust

Wayne Dillman
Legislative Director
Indiana Farmers Union

Joe Gergela
Executive Director
Long Island Farm Bureau, Inc. (New York)