As of 6:15 PM DC time, on Thursday evening, it is still not entirely clear how the parliamentary mess holding up the Farm Bill will be resolved. When Congressman Mac Thornberry was asked about this earlier today he responded: “Of course, everyone can make a mistake. What’s disturbing about this episode is that there was an attempt by the Democratic leadership in Congress to hide from the mistake, rather than stand up and fix it. Unfortunately, farmers, ranchers, and others involved in agricultur...
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Memorial Day 2008 A Family Chooses to Serve: How we can all learn from the selfless service and unconditional love of Perryton’s Naylor Family By Congressman Mac Thornberry Service to our nation comes in many forms. We, of course, think of the brave men and woman of the Armed Forces, risking their lives to answer the call of our country. But, not every act of service comes with a uniform. Opal and Dick Naylor of Perryton, Texas have showed us a different, but no less admirable, way of serving. O...
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Wichita Falls, Texas - Congressman Mac Thornberry (TX-13) today announced that the House Armed Services Committee has approved a defense authorization bill that includes funding for Sheppard Air Force Base. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (H.R. 5658) was approved by the Armed Services Committee on a unanimous 61 to 0 vote after a day-long hearing that ended after 1:00 a.m. Thursday morning. The bill authorizes spending totaling $531.4 billion for the Department of Defense and the national security programs of the Department of Energy.
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Amarillo, Texas - Congressman Mac Thornberry (TX-13) today announced that the House Armed Services Committee has approved a defense authorization bill that includes funding for Pantex and Bell Helicopter purchases. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (H.R. 5658) was approved by the Armed Services Committee on a unanimous 61 to 0 vote after a day-long hearing that ended after 1:00 a.m. Thursday morning. The bill authorizes spending totaling $531.4 billion for the Department of Defense and the national security programs of the Department of Energy.
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Washington, DC – Congressman Mac Thornberry today voted in favor of the 2008 Farm Bill. “A year after this bill should have been passed the Democratic Leadership in the House finally allowed the bill to come to a vote,” said Thornberry. “This is clearly not the Farm Bill I would have written, but with crops already in the ground producers deserve the certainty this bill provides.”
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Washington, D.C. – Today, the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities marked up the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009, legislation which authorizes budget authority for the Department of Defense and the national security programs within the Department of Energy. Subcommittee Ranking Republican Mac Thornberry (R-TX) released the following opening statement:
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Normally I wouldn’t quote CBS News, but with oil closing at over $119.00 per barrel it is worth noting a recent CBS report on gas prices. How fast are gas prices rising? Well, according to CBS they’ve now nearly doubled in just over three years. A lot of folks in our part of Texas have been asking what Congress is going to do about high gas prices. Unfortunately it seems to me Congress is doing exactly the opposite of what it should be doing to lower energy prices generally and gas prices in particular.
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Thornberry says U.S. ranchers and beef producers, who have been eager to provide high quality U.S. beef to Korean consumers, will again have access to the Korean beef market. According to the office of the U.S. Trade Representative, prior to discovery of BSE in the U.S. in December 2003, South Korea was the third-largest market for U.S. beef and beef variety meat exports, valued annually at $815 million; about 60% of it was bone-in product - beef ribs. On April 18, 2008 the United States and the...
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Washington, DC – Congressman Mac Thornberry today announced that the House has passed H.R. 5813 to provide a clean extension to the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 through April 25, 2008. “The new Majority in Congress has made a habit of waiting until past the last minute to pass important legislation and apparently this year’s Farm Bill will be no exception,” said Thornberry.
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