From Rural Updates of Defenders of Wildlife
Forwarded by Jane Clark

OUT THE DORR

In a huge victory for family farmers, environmentalists and other
rural advocates, President Bush's  nomination of Thomas Dorr's as
the USDA undersecretary of Rural Development has been declared
dead on arrival.  Dorr, a long- time advocate of factory farming and
corporate agriculture had been awaiting review of his nomination
by the Senate Agriculture committee for over a year.  Yesterday
that committee voted to send Dorr's nomination to the full Senate
without a recommendation.  "There are not the votes here for him.
That's the end of it," said Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman
Tom Harkin of Iowa. In a long, blistering statement to the
committee, Harkin said Dorr was  unfit for the USDA job, both
because of his violations of farm subsidy rules as well as evidence
that he was insensitive to the needs of rural areas and minorities.
Though the message seemed emphatic, according to the
Congressional Dailey, a USDA official said "the Bush
administration wasn't giving up on his  nomination.

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