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Archive: Washington – 11 January 2018
1. Various of President-elect Donald Trump and Brooke Rollins (right) during a prison reform roundtable discussion
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Brooke Rollins, former White House aide, nominee for agriculture secretary:
"So, in Texas, we’ve changed our laws, we shut eight prisons down. We’ve decreased our incarceration rate by 20 percent, but the most important part of all of that is that our crime rate is down 31 percent in the state of Texas since we undertook all of these reforms. This works."
3. Pan of roundtable
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4. Still-Brooke Rollins (center) speaks at an America First Policy Institute agenda summit along with Kevin McCarthy (left) and Newt Gingrich (right)
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5. Still- Brooke Rollins speaks during a Life is Winning event
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6. Still – Brooke Rollins speaks at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster
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7. Various Stills- Rollins sworn in for a Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee hearing on her nomination for Secretary of Agriculture
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8. Still -Rollins, left, and Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Ranking Member Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., greet people ahead of a committee hearing on Rollins’ nomination for Secretary of Agriculture
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9. Still -Rollins, right, is hugged by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, before a Senate hearing on her nomination for Secretary of Agriculture
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10. Various Stills- Rollins speaks during a Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee hearing on her nomination for Secretary of Agriculture
STORYLINE:
Conservative lawyer Brooke Rollins was confirmed Thursday as secretary of agriculture, placing a close ally of President Donald Trump into a key Cabinet position at a time when mass deportation plans could lead to farm labor shortages and tariffs could hit agricultural exports.
Rollins, who served as chief for domestic policy during Trump’s first administration, was confirmed overwhelmingly by the Senate in a 72-28 vote.
Rollins will now lead a department tasked with overseeing nearly all aspects of the nation’s food system, including standards on farming practices and livestock rearing, federal subsidies to farmers or agribusinesses and setting nutrition standards for schools and public health officials nationwide.
The Department of Agriculture was at the center of Trump’s trade war in his last administration, when it increased subsidies to farmers growing the nation’s two biggest crops, corn and soybeans, after retaliatory tariffs were levied by China on the grains and international markets were disrupted. The United States is the world’s largest food exporter.
In her Senate confirmation hearing, Rollins acknowledged that Trump’s plans for the mass deportation of people in the country illegally could led to farm labor shortages. Growers of some vegetables and crops such as apples as well as dairy operations are especially dependent on migrant labor.
But Rollins said Americans support Trump’s plans and she would work to help the president while also trying to protect farmers.
Rollins promised that her team “would be at the table fighting for what we believe is necessary for these communities.
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