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Georgia Democrat David Scott cleared a major hurdle to becoming the next chairman of the House Agriculture Committee, installing new leadership for the committee as it prepares to begin work on a new farm bill.

Ajit Pai, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, said Monday he plans to step down from his post as a commissioner on January 20 after eight years at the agency.

President-elect Joe Biden has announced his nominees for and appointees to key national security and foreign policy posts and has tapped former Secretary of State John Kerry to be the special presidential envoy for climate.

Jenny Holtermann is now the new executive director of the Water Association of Kern County and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., has announced she will not pursue leadership on the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Kailee Tkacz Buller is leaving USDA, Gary Woodward has taken a job off Capitol Hill, and a familar PR farm hand calls it a career.

A pair of lobbyists advocating for farm and food workers have received waivers that will allow them to serve on the Biden-Harris transition team.

President-elect Joe Biden has named the people charged with heading up the transition efforts at different government departments, and the USDA and EPA rosters include a deep slate of Obama administration alums.

Almond Board of California has hired Drew Wolter as the new pest management senior specialist and Agri-Pulse brings on Danielle Brinkmann as a western sales associate.

Robert Bonnie, who oversaw USDA natural resource programs during the Obama administration, is leading the department’s transition effort for President-elect Joe Biden, while several EPA alumni are assisting with setting up the new administration’s operations at that agency.

Agri-Pulse is pleased to announce that Danielle Brinkmann has joined the digital media company as its western sales associate.