Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry
Hearing on Interstate Shipment of State-Inspected Meat and Poultry

April 6, 2000

Opening Statement of Chairman Richard G. Lugar
United States Senator for Indiana

Senator Orrin Hatch

PANEL I

Deputy Secretary Richard Rominger
United States Department of Agriculture
Washington, DC

PANEL II

Fred L. Dailey
Director, Ohio Department of Agriculture
President, National Association of State Departments of Agriculture
Reynoldsburg, Ohio

Michael Eickman
Eickman's Processing Co., Inc.
Representing the American Association of Meat Processors, the
   the Illinois Association of Meat Processors, and 18 other state
   meat processing associations
Seward, Illinois

Jolene Heikens
Triple T Country Meats
Representing the American Association of Meat Processors, the Iowa
   Association of Meat Processors, and 18 other state meat processing
   associations
Wellsburg, Iowa

Harry Pearson
President, Indiana Farm Bureau
Representing the American Farm Bureau Federation
Indianapolis, Indiana

Richard T. Nielson
President, Utah Cattlemen's Association
Representing the National Cattleman's Beef Association
Salt Lake City, Utah

Carol Tucker Foreman
Distinguished Fellow and Director of the Food Policy Institute
Consumer Federation of America
Washington, District of Columbia

Patrick Boyle
President and CEO
American Meat Institute
Arlington, Virginia

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