Extensions of Remarks E1653 HON. JO ANN EMERSON HON. JOHN
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July 7, 2009 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks E1653 EARMARK DECLARATION Address of Requesting Entity: 214 surrounding states. Approximately, $438,882 Middlebush Hall, Columbia, Missouri 65211 [or 66%] is for salary and fringe to support HON. JO ANN EMERSON Description of Request: Provide $835,000 professional track faculty, research associates, OF MISSOURI for the Rural Policies Institute to provide unbi- field research specialists, graduate and under- IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ased analysis and information on the chal- graduate students; $201,982 [or 31%] for ma- lenges, needs, and opportunities facing rural terials and supplies in support of laboratory Tuesday, July 7, 2009 people and places; and to spur public dialogue and field-based research on campus and at Mrs. EMERSON. Madam Speaker, pursuant and help policymakers understand the impacts five MU farms and centers; $19,137 [or 3%] to the House Republican standards on ear- of public policies and programs on rural peo- for travel. marks, I am submitting the following informa- ple and places. Of the $835,000, $600,000 is Requesting Member: JO ANN EMERSON tion in regards to H.R. 2997, the Fiscal Year for salaries and benefits, and the remaining Bill Number: H.R. 2997 2010 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food $135,000 is for center investments, con- Account: National Institute of Food and Agri- and Drug Administration, and Related Agen- ferences and events, consultants, office ex- culture—Research and Education Activities cies Appropriations Act, 2010 penses and travel. Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Center for Requesting Member: JO ANN EMERSON Requesting Member: JO ANN EMERSON Grapevine Biotechnology at Missouri State Bill Number: H.R. 2997 Bill Number: H.R. 2997 University Account: National Institute of Food and Agri- Account: National Institute of Food and Agri- Address of Requesting Entity: 9740 Red culture—SRG culture—SRG Spring Road, Mountain Grove, Missouri 65711 Legal Name of Requesting Entity: University Legal Name of Requesting Entity: University Description of Request: Provide $422,000 to of Missouri-Columbia of Missouri-Columbia Delta Research Center research the ability of wild grapevines to de- Address of Requesting Entity: 101 Park Address of Requesting Entity: Highway 61, fend themselves against pathogens, and their DeVille Drive, Suite E, Columbia, MO Portageville, MO 63873 capacity to synthesize health-promoting prop- Description of Request: Provide $1,139,000 Description of Request: Provide $556,000 erties. Of the funds available 46% for salary for the Food and Agriculture Policy Research for continued soybean cyst nematode re- and benefits, 21% for other direct costs includ- Institute to provide objective, quantitative eco- search at the University of Missouri—Delta ing materials and supplies, and 25% for F&A. nomic analysis of agricultural policy alter- Research Center. Of the $556,000, 85% is for f natives. Approximately $188,000 or 17% is to salaries and benefits, the remaining 15% is for continue a cooperative agreement with the travel, supplies, and costs for a winter seed EARMARK DECLARATION University of Wisconsin relating to dairy policy; nursery. $140,000 or 12% is to conduct analysis of Requesting Member: JO ANN EMERSON HON. JOHN SHIMKUS rangeland, cattle and hay with the University Bill Number: H.R. 2997 OF ILLINOIS of Nevada—Reno; $811,000 or 71% is to be Account: Animal and Plant Health Inspection IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES divided between the University of Missouri and Service—Salaries and Expenses Tuesday, July 7, 2009 Iowa State University to provide a ten-year Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Bootheel baseline and policy analysis for US and world Resource Conservation and Development, Inc. Mr. SHIMKUS. Madam Speaker, pursuant to agriculture. Address of Requesting Entity: 18450 the Republican Leadership standards on ear- Requesting Member: JO ANN EMERSON Ridgeview Lane, Dexter, MO 63841 marks, I am submitting the following informa- Bill Number: H.R. 2997 Description of Request: Provide $207,000 to tion regarding earmarks I received as part of Account: National Institute of Food and Agri- the USDA–APHIS–Wildlife Services in South- HR 2997. culture—SRG east Missouri. Of the $207,000, 80% would be Requesting Member: JOHN M. SHIMKUS Legal Name of Requesting Entity: University utilized for salaries and benefits, 17% for Bill number: HR 2997 of Missouri-Columbia APHIS–Wildlife Services program support and The Account: Agriculture Salaries and Ex- Address of Requesting Entity: 101 Park 3% for vehicle maintenance and fuel. A por- penses DeVille Drive, Suite E, Columbia, MO tion of the operating budget will also be pro- Requesting Entity: National Corn-to-Ethanol Description of Request: Provide $595,000 vided by local municipalities, commodity orga- Research Center (NCERC) at 400 University for the Food and Agriculture Policy Research nizations and university support. Park Dr in Edwardsville, IL. Institute (FAPRI) and the Agricultural and Requesting Member: JO ANN EMERSON NCERC is the only pilot plant facility in the Food Policy Center (AFPC) to provide Con- Bill Number: H.R. 2997 world that has the flexibility to process any gress with information regarding farm financial Account: General Provision grain based feedstock to fuel ethanol and as- risk and farm structure and the impacts of al- Legal Name of Requesting Entity: Congres- sociated products. Funding will go toward the ternative agricultural policies on these factors. sional Hunger Center research at NRERC which is needed to re- Approximately $244,000 or 41% is for FAPRI Address of Requesting Entity: Hall of States duce our reliance on foreign sources of en- at the University of Missouri to provide Building, 400 North Capitol Street, N.W., Suite ergy. stochastic and deterministic baseline and pol- G100, Washington, DC 20001 f icy scenarios and $351,000 or 59% is for Description of Request: Provide $2,500,000 AFPC at Texas A&M University to provide rep- for the Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellow- THE 100TH BIRTHDAY OF MR. resentative farm analysis. ship Program and the Mickey Leland Inter- JESUS GONZALEZ VILLAGOMEZ Requesting Member: JO ANN EMERSON national Hunger Fellowship Program. Of the Bill Number: H.R. 2997 $2,500,000 in funding 54% would be for sala- HON. SOLOMAN P. ORTIZ Account: National Institute of Food and Agri- ries, benefits, healthcare and other costs as- OF TEXAS culture—SRG sociated with the Emerson National Hunger IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Legal Name of Requesting Entity: University Fellowship Program and 46% for similar costs Tuesday, July 7, 2009 of Missouri-Columbia Delta Research Center associated with the Mickey Leland Inter- Address of Requesting Entity: Highway 61, national Hunger Fellowship Program. Mr. ORTIZ. Madam Speaker, I rise today to Portageville, MO 63873 Requesting Member: JO ANN EMERSON recognize Mr. Jesus Gonzalez Villagomez, Description of Request: Provide $174,000 Bill Number: H.R. 2997 who celebrated his 100th birthday on May 5, for the University of Missouri—Delta Research Account: Agriculture Research Service— 2009, surrounded by family, friends and loved Center to continue research on rice production Salaries and Expenses ones. in the mid-South. Approximately $140,610 will Legal Name of Requesting Entity: University Mr. Villagomez was born on May 5, 1909, in be for multiple personnel costs, $29,000 for of Missouri Center for Agroforestry Villa Morelos, Michoaca´n, Mexico, to a ranch- materials and supplies, and $5,000 for other Address of Requesting Entity: 203 An- ing and farming family—Telesforo and Antonia costs. heuser-Busch Natural Resources Building, Co- Gonzalez Villagomez. Requesting Member: JO ANN EMERSON lumbia, Missouri 65211 When he turned 18, he migrated to the Bill Number: H.R. 2997 Description of Request: Provide $660,000 to United States entering at the Port of Browns- Account: National Institute of Food and Agri- support research on viable alternative produc- ville in Brownsville, Texas, and a few years culture—SRG tion and protection options to help revitalize later returned to Mexico where he met and Legal Name of Requesting Entity: University the economic and environmental health of married his life-long companion, Mariana of Missouri-Columbia rural farms and communities in Missouri and Aguillon Villagomez. Mr. Villagomez and his VerDate Nov 24 2008 05:23 Jul 08, 2009 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00015 Fmt 0626 Sfmt 9920 E:\CR\FM\A07JY8.031 E07JYPT1 wwoods2 on DSK1DXX6B1PROD with REMARKS E1654 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks July 7, 2009 wife returned to the United States and settled mitment to developing a strong and healthy a weapons range. The entity to receive fund- in Fargo, North Dakota. community for his children and others, James ing for this project is the Texas National He joined the United States Army at Kelly even acted as a volunteer referee for local lit- Guard, 2200 West 35th Street, Austin, TX Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, during tle league games. Our children represent our 78763. World War II and was honorably discharged. future, and James has touched the lives of A request for the Mobile Firing Range. The Mr. Villagomez would go on to make a name generations to follow. mobile firing range is a self contained range for himself holding position with the Union Pa- The work of Mr. Kernan is inspiring, and I that allows for the firing of pistol and rifle sys- cific Railroad and the Armour Meat Packing am grateful to him for all that he has accom- tems for the Texas National Guard. Currently Company in Fargo, North Dakota, where he plished. It is the through the efforts of individ- there is no opportunity to fire weapons for retired from. uals such as James Kernan that our nation re- training or qualification without traveling to a He is fluent in English and Spanish and has mains strong and prosperous. I ask my col- certified range on a military installation.