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  • Jul 24, 2007

    Chairman Harkin

  • Jun 14, 2007

    Impact of Agriculture Policy on Rural America

    *Statement of Glenn English CEO National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
    Committee on House Small Business*

    Madam Chairwoman and Members of the Committee:

    My name is Glenn English, and I am the Chief Executive Officer of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA). As a former member of the House Agriculture Committee, I fully appreciate your responsibility to oversee the programs of the Small Business Administration and also ensure that federal programs and agencies work with and benefit America’s thousands of small businesses. In today’s era of utility mergers and international purchases of domestic utilities, electric cooperatives are the small businesses of the electricity sector. I am honored to be invited here today to offer electric cooperative perspectives on the pending 2007 Farm Bill and other legislation in the 110th Congress that will impact small business in rural America.

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  • May 18, 2007

    Can You Hear Rural America Now?

    By Thomas D. Rowley

    You’ve seen the ads. The guy with the cell phone repeating ad nauseam “Can you hear me now?” Well, it’s time for rural America to ask that question of our elected representatives. Can you hear us now?

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