WASHINGTON, March 25 -- Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota, issued the following statement: * * * Senator John Hoeven, Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Committee and Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Committee Subcommittee on Commodities, Risk Management, and Trade, released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced additional COVID-19 assistance utilizing the $13 billion in agriculture funding Hoeven secured in the year-end f  more