[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 130 (Monday, October 11, 2004)]
[Senate]
[Page S11229]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




INSTRUCTING CONFEREES ON AGRICULTURE, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, FOOD AND DRUG 
                             ADMINISTRATION

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order the Senate will 
proceed to consideration of S. Res. 465, which the clerk will report by 
title.
  The assistant legislative clerk read as follows:

       A resolution (S. Res. 465) to instruct conferees to the 
     Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, 
     and related agencies appropriations bill, 2005, or on a 
     consolidated appropriations measure that includes the 
     substance of that act.

  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Under the previous order, the resolution is 
agreed to, and the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table.
  The resolution (S. Res. 465) was agreed to, as follows:

                              S. Res. 465

       Resolved, That for the purpose of restoring the provisions 
     governing the Conservation Security Program to those enacted 
     in the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act and restoring 
     the practice of treating agricultural disaster assistance as 
     emergency spending, the Senate instructs conferees to the 
     Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, 
     and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2005, or a 
     Consolidated Appropriations Measure that includes the 
     substance of that act, to insist that the conference report 
     contain legislative language striking subsections (e) and (f) 
     of section 101 of division B of H.R. 4837, An Act Making 
     Appropriations for Military Construction, Family Housing, and 
     Base Realignment and Closure for the Department of Defense 
     for the Fiscal Year ending September 30, 2005 and for Other 
     Purposes.

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