Lugar, Baucus head new pro-free trade agriculture group
Former Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Richard Lugar (R-IN) and former Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MN), who also served as ambassador to China under president Obama, have teamed up to found “Farms for Free Trade,” which they describe as a bipartisan, pro-trade agricultural industry group. The two “honorary co-chairs” of the organization “plan to build a grassroots powerhouse that informs, mobilizes and amplifies the voice of U.S. farmers and ranchers who depend on worldwide markets,” they said in a...