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April 17, 2013

Washington, D.C. — Congressman Robert Aderholt (AL-04), Chairman of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, released the following statement after the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics and Chief Scientist Dr. Catherine Wotecki, Administrator of the National Agriculture Statistics Service Dr. Cynthia Clark, Administrator of the Economic Research Service Dr.

April 16, 2013
Demands answers on the administration's lack of investment in agriculture exports, creative accounting and false savings
April 12, 2013

Washington, D.C. — Congressman Robert Aderholt (AL-04), member of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on the House Appropriations Committee, today announced that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) awarded the State of Alabama a $1,340,171 grant for the Druid City Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

April 12, 2013

Washington, D.C. — Congressman Robert Aderholt (AL-04), Chairman of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies Subcommittee on the House Appropriations Committee, released the following statement after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Gary Gensler and Commissioner Scott O’Malia (who provided a dissenting opinion to the CFTC’s FY14 budget request) testified before the Subcommittee regarding CFTC’s priorities and FY14 budget request of $315 million, a 53 percent increase over the current levels and a 44 percen

April 10, 2013

Washington, D.C. — Congressman Robert Aderholt (AL-04) today released the following statement in response to the President’s FY14 budget proposal:

“Today the President submitted his budget proposal to Congress,” said Aderholt. “While there are some important funding items in the President’s budget, the reality is his budget will never balance. Further, it includes $1.1 trillion in new taxes and the Administration is once again relying on budget gimmicks, rather than real cuts, to claim their budget reduces our nation’s staggering $16.7 trillion deficit.”

April 10, 2013

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Representatives Bill Posey (R-FL), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Chairman Frank Wolf (R-VA), Robert Aderholt (R-AL), John Culberson (R-TX), Steve Stockman (R-TX), Pete Olson (R-TX), Rob Bishop (R-UT) and Ted Poe (R-TX) have once again reintroduced bipartisan legislation directing NASA to develop a plan for returning to the Moon and establishing a human presence there.

April 4, 2013
Congressional Staff On-Site to Assist Constituents with Federal Casework
April 4, 2013
Congressman Robert Aderholt (AL-04) today announced that the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA) awarded $2,643,730 to the City of Sheffield in Colbert County
April 4, 2013
Congressman Robert Aderholt (AL-04) today announced his office would begin taking submissions for the 2013 Congressional Art Competition.
March 21, 2013
Combating waste, fraud and abuse of federal taxpayer dollars at USDA is no easy task, but it is a critical mission of the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), said Aderholt.