Federal Government Relations

The Government Relations office works with members of Ohio's Congressional Delegation and their staff to obtain support for special projects and in support of the entire Land Grant university system's priorities for research and extension. College faculty and staff who plan to seek funds directly from Members of Congress must contact Gwen Wolford prior to doing so.

A key partner in this work for the College is CARET, the Council for Agricultural Research, Extension and Teaching. CARET is a national group that has up to three volunteer advocates from each state as members. This group is our voice of advocacy in Washington, D.C. These advocates are stakeholders in research and extension programs who use their valuable time to support us. Currently we have two CARET delegates, Nate Andre and Jim Patterson. A big thank you goes to these three individuals for their work to support agriculture and our College!

Links of interest related to federal government relations include:

Thomas Legislative Information on the Internet
This site is a service of the Library of Congress, which allows you to search for any legislation in the current session of Ongress, along with some information on legislation enacted up to 15 years ago. Also includes information such as Congressional Calendars.
http://thomas.loc.gov/

The U.S. House and Senate web sites allow you to search for information and identify your Members of Congress.

U.S. Senate
http://www/senate.gov

U.S. House of Representatives
http://www.house.gov/

The Federal Elections Commission
This includes federal campaign finance information such as contribution amounts reported by candidates and lists of contributors.
http://www.fec.gov

The Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities is a voluntary, non-profit association of public research universities, land-grant institutions, and many state university systems and has member campuses in all 50 states and the U.S. territories.  A portion of their web site is dedicated to the federal budget for land grant agriculture programs including ours here at Ohio State. The web site for this information is:
http://www.aplu.org

Profiles by Ohio Legislative District
http://exurban.osu.edu/leg_profile.htm