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Elsa Murano, a former undersecretary for food safety at USDA who later served a short, rocky tenure as president of Texas A&M University, will be interviewed by President-elect Donald Trump to become secretary of agriculture.

Susan Combs, a former Texas agriculture commissioner and state comptroller, interviewed with Vice President-elect Mike Pence to become agriculture secretary or possible take another role in the Trump administration. Combs has the support of House Agriculture Chairman Mike Conaway&#

Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen will take a seat on the Senate Agriculture Committee when the 115th Congress convenes in January.

Agriculture secretary is a very big deal for President-elect Donald Trump and as with other cabinet positions he wants to make sure he is getting the right person for USDA, said spokesman Jason Miller.

John Glenn's pioneering space flight made him an American icon. But he also compiled a farmer-friendly record that was eclipsed by his other accomplishments in four Senate terms before he retired in 1998. Glenn, an American icon from his pioneering space flight, d

Oklahoma Attorney General Pruitt, who has led legal challenges to the Obama administrationPs Pwaters of the United States ruleP and greenhouse gas regulations, has been tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to run the Environmental Protection Agency. Pruit