America’s Sugar Industry Thanks Congressmen

The Sugar Productors magazine - USA - April 26, 2006 - Wednesday 26 April 2006

WASHINGTON, D.C.—America’s sugar producers thanked Congressmen Collin Peterson (D-MN.) and Mike Simpson (R-ID) for starting a House Sugar Caucus to help promote and maintain America’s no-cost sugar program in the 2007 Farm Bill.

Simpson, a member of the House Appropriations and Budget Committees, and Peterson, the top Democrat on the House Agriculture Committee, sent a letter to their colleagues about the new caucus, and they are actively recruiting new members. Wallace expects numerous members of Congress to join. A similar Senate caucus has been in existence for more than 15 years, and Senators Larry Craig (R-ID), Mary Landrieu (D-LA.), Kent Conrad (D-ND), and Mel Martinez (R-FL) are serving as joint chairs for 2006. The American Sugar Alliance is the national coalition of growers, processors, and refiners of sugarbeets and sugarcane, accounting for 146,000 American jobs in 19 states.