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USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins

After getting a slow start to the nomination process, Brooke Rollins is now the confirmed USDA Secretary, by virtue of a 72-28 confirmation vote last week.   She’s just the second woman to head the agency as Ann Veneman of California was Secretary in 2001 during President George W. Bush's first term. On Friday, Rollins  delivered opening remarks at the Department of Agriculture to more than 400 USDA employees, stakeholders, and Congressional members and staff as she was welcomed to her first full day on the job. "It is the honor of a lifetime to serve as the nation’s thirty-third Secretary of Agriculture ‒ and a privilege beyond description to have the trust of President Donald J. Trump, and the opportunity to adv...

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