CREDIT

Addresses

Financial Services Deregulation—Necessity for the Insurance Industry: E. James Morton, 15034 [10JN]

Amendments

Agricultural and Food Assistance Act: enact (S. 1119), 18877 [11JY]

Agriculture: assistance programs (H.R. 2100), 24179 [18SE]

Agriculture, Food, Trade, and Conservation Act: enact (S. 1714), 29186-29191 [25OC], 29280-29282 [28OC], 29497-29514 [29OC], 29754-29758 [30OC], 30056-30082, 30087 [31OC], 32246, 32247, 32255-32257 [18NO], 32360 [19NO], 33408-33427 [22NO]

Farm Credit Administration: reorganize and strengthen (S. 1884), 33877, 33891, 33894-33896, 33901, 33904, 33907, 33909-33911, 33913-33915, 33957, 33978, 33984, 33995, 34004 [3DE], 36853, 36918 [17DE], 37804 [18DE]

Farm Emergency Credit Act: enact (H.R. 1035), 3571 [26FE], 3875 [5MR], 3877, 3882, 3884 [27FE]

Analyses

Agricultural Debt Recovery Act, 5370-5371 [19MR]

Competitive Tied Aid Fund (H.R. 3515), 30180 [1NO]

Credit Accounting Reform Act (S. 502), 3250 [23FE]

Emergency Farm Credit, 3994 [28FE]

Fair Export Financing Act (S. 1763), 27277 [10OC]

Farm Credit Administration Improvement Act (S. 466), 2483 [19FE]

Farm Credit Partnership Act (H.R. 3868), 34770 [5DE]

Farm Credit Partnership Act (S. 1854), 32134 [14NO]

Farm Credit Partnership Act (S. 1906), 34451 [5DE]

Farm Credit Soundness, Stability, and Private Ownership Restoration Act (S. 1790), 29176-29179 [25OC]

Farm Debt Restructuring CA Modified Debt Recovery Program: Communicating for Agriculture, 5837 [20MR]

Articles and editorials

After 3-Year Spending Binge, Consumers Seem To Be Exhausted, 28493 [23OC]

Ag Crisis Kills Faith—The American Dream Suffers, 3009 [21FE]

Amendment Would Squeeze Mexico To Bar Soviet Ships, 23809 [16SE]

Are You Ready for $2.40 Wheat and $2 Corn?, 2459 [19FE]

Bankers Meet, Discuss Farm Loan Proposals, 36825 [17DE]

Banks Fret Over Exposure in Steel Industry, 10687 [7MY]

Big Fed Loan to Continental Not in Budget, 2766 [20FE]

Boschwitz Emerges as Major Figure in Drafting of 1985 Farm Legislation, 23925 [17SE]

Cleansed, 23645 [12SE]

Clues to Crisis in Agriculture Found in World Trade Situation, 29162 [25OC]

College Graduates Depicted as Uncreative, Too Indebted, 24572 [20SE]

Complex Problems and Simple Solutions, 29061 [24OC]

Country Banker Tells How It Is (series), 22982 [5SE]

Credit Cards (excerpt), 34769, 34770 [5DE]

Deaths on the Iowa Prairie—Four New Victims of Economy, 35849 [11DE]

Emergency Farm Credit Assistance, 3278, 3329 [23FE]

Endless Credit, Endless Debt, 33681 [2DE]

Everybody Has a Stake in Nation's Farm System, 5663 [19MR]

Explosion of Private Debt, 23165 [10SE]

Fair Warning to Agriculture, 29062 [24OC]

Farm Community Nourished by Devoted Country Banker, 2516 [19FE]

Farm Debt Crisis—An American Dream Plowed Under (series), 2961-2965 [21FE], 3332 [23FE]

Farm Failures Threaten To Reshape Rural U.S., 1189 [29JA]

Farmer Approval of Reagan Sinks to 24 Percent, 11461 [9MY]

Farms Can't Wait, 6645 [28MR]

Federal Assistance to Farmers (excerpt), 3739 [27FE]

Few Farmers in Survey Fail To Gain Spring Crop Loans, 3744 [27FE]

Fields of Fears, 14198 [4JN]

Financial Crisis in Farming (excerpt), 2946 [21FE]

For Full Production on the Farm, 24695 [24SE]

Great Farm-Belt Bank Crisis, 2989 [21FE]

Grotberg Analyzes House Version of New Farm Bill, 24564 [20SE]

House Sends Farm-Aid Bill to President, 4593 [6MR]

Iowa, National Menace, 14200 [4JN]

More Mid-Size Farms Facing Bankruptcy, 6167 [26MR]

Moynihan's Plan To Raise Cash, 10794 [7MY]

Only 61 Farmers Aided by Loan Guarantees, 6167 [26MR]

Only 73 Farmers Aided by Federal Loan Program, 8817 [23AP]

Portfolio for Sale, 10793 [7MY]

Preventing Debt Disaster, 23166 [10SE]

Riding Out the Storm, 22728 [1AU]

Sale of U.S. Loan Assets (excerpt), 10793 [7MY]

Schroeder ``Farm Bill'', 16929 [24JN]

Selling a Farm Bill of Goods, 24694 [24SE], 27183 [10OC], 28101 [18OC]

Sour Play of the Sugar Lobby, 35821 [10DE]

State Ag Report Estimates 2,300 Now Insolvent, 36824 [17DE]

Struggling Family Farmer Will Be the Victim, 29135 [25OC]

Ten Pillars of Sound Money and Credit (series), 31813 [13NO], 32496 [19NO], 32890 [20NO]

That Farm Bill, 24693 [24SE]

Tom Sawyer Reagan, 10793 [7MY]

U.S. Losing Share of Asian Wheat Market, 3471 [25FE]

Vanishing Dream of the American Farm, 23068 [9SE]

Which Route to Recovery?, 3755 [27FE]

Who Will Farm in 5 Years?, 3754 [27FE]

Why Don't Cash Payers Get Credit They're Due?, 3968 [27FE]

Wright Hits Reagan, Denies Congress Culpable on Deficit, 1190 [29JA]

Bills and resolutions

Agricultural and Food Assistance Act: enact (see S. 1119)

Agricultural Loans for Agriculture Act: enact (see H.R. 3785)

Agriculture: alternatives for lower interest rates on loans (see S. 1565)

———capital assistance to certain banks (see H.R. 2925, 2926)

———commission to study farm credit system (see H.R. 2961)

———consolidation of farm credit assistance programs (see S. 435)

———correct enrollment of H.R. 2100, credit assistance for farmers (see H. Con. Res. 264)

———credit assistance for farmers (see H.R. 2100, 2112)

———crop loans (see S. 433)

———emergency assistance (see S. 371; S. Res. 67; H.R. 946)

———emergency credit and debt adjustment relief (see H.R. 1035)

———emergency loans for those affected by natural disasters (see H.R. 543)

———emergency measures (see H.R. 3274)

———emergency operating credit (see H.R. 1539, 1749)

———emergency operating credit and debt adjustment relief (see S. 458, 459, 460; S.J. Res. 49; S. Res. 79; H.R. 1119, 1153, 1155, 1184, 1189)

———erosion of local control and participation in farmer- and rancher-owned farm credit system (see S. Con. Res. 57; H. Con. Res. 177)

———establish an export credit revolving fund (see H.R. 2105)

———establish National Commission on Farm Credit System (see S. Con. Res. 64; H. Con. Res. 190)

———expand overseas markets for U.S. commodities (see H.R. 2465)

———expanding overseas markets for U.S. commodities (see S. 171)

———FDIC protection of agreement worked out with borrower prior to bank's failure (see S. 1824)

———guaranteed production loans (see H.R. 1034)

———large-scale consolidation and mergers of production credit associations within farm credit system (see S. Con. Res. 57; H. Con. Res. 177)

———opportunity for borrowers to restructure loans from commercial lenders (see S. 1854, 1906; H.R. 3868)

———protection for borrowers (see H.R. 3811)

———resources (see H.R. 2609)

———tax relief for certain insolvent farmers (see S. 1341)

AID: coordination with Eximbank's tied aid credit program (see S. 1763; H.R. 3296, 3515)

Bankruptcy: proceedings involving debtors who are family farmers (see S. 1516)

Banks and banking: credit assistance for farmers (see H.R. 2107)

———obligations of Federal intermediate credit banks, land banks, and land bank associations (see H.R. 2824)

Communist countries: prohibit extensions of credit, investment guarantees, or grants (see H.R. 97)

Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act: limit maximum interest rate applicable to loans (see H.R. 2328)

Consumer credit files: reduce period of time to keep certain adverse information (see H.R. 2967)

Consumer Credit Protection Act: amend (see H.R. 2322)

Credit cards: ceiling on interest rates (see S. 1922)

———limit rate of interest (see H.R. 1197)

———national ceiling on interest rates (see S. 1603)

———prohibit surcharges (see S. 212)

Emergency Farm Credit Authority: establish (see H.R. 3274)

Equal Credit Opportunity Act: amend (see S. 1486; H.R. 1575)

Executive departments: proper budgetary treatment of credit transactions (see S. 502; H.R. 1216)

Eximbank: coordination with AID's tied aid credit program (see S. 1763; H.R. 3296, 3515)

Fair Debt Collection Practices Act: amend (see S. 951)

Family Farm Homestead Protection Act: enact (see S. 1196)

Family Farm Reorganization Act: enact (see S. 705)

Family Farm Survival Act: enact (see H.R. 2330)

Family Farmer Reform Act: enact (see H.R. 2318)

Farm Aid Day: designate (see H.J. Res. 384)

Farm Credit Act: amend (see S. 1884; H.R. 1217, 1463, 3792)

Farm Credit Administration: abolish (see H.R. 3274)

———authority over cease and desist orders (see S. 466)

———reorganize and strengthen (see S. 1884; H.R. 3792)

Farm Credit Relief Act: enact (see S. 1151)

Farm Credit System: long-term stability and private control of banking entities (see S. 1790)

———obligations (see H.R. 3618)

———purchase of foreclosed farmland (see H.R. 3619)

———renegotiate problem loans (see H.R. 3620)

Farm credit system: additional resources (see S. 1598)

———authority to repurchase certain obligations and to pay associated costs (see H.R. 3561)

———commission to study structure (see S. 1599)

———Government guarantees for certain obligations (see H.R. 3231)

———list of members and stockholders of institutions (see S. 1589)

———need to maintain and assist (see S. Res. 211)

Farm Credit System: U.S. guarantees for certain obligations (see S. 1738)

Farm Emergency Credit Act: enact (see H.R. 1814)

Foreign trade: expanding overseas markets for U.S. commodities (see S. 171)

Hospitals: final regulations mortgage insurance for public facilities (see H.R. 3859)

Housing: requirements and restrictions relative to consumer credit agency's furnishing or retention of information (see H.R. 2525)

Industrial mortgages: establish secondary market (see H.R. 3954)

Investment credit: refund of that which exceeds liability for tax (see H.R. 450)

Leases and rental purchase agreements: amend (see H.R. 2730)

Loans: post interest rate charges of certain (see H.R. 287)

Reagan, President: authority to stabilize economic indicators (see H.R. 225)

Small business: limit maximum interest rate applicable to loans (see H.R. 2328)

Student aid: supplemental loan program with repayment obligation based on postschool income level and borrowing history (see H.R. 2733)

Tax: backup withholding from interest and dividends (see H.R. 852)

Taxation: credit unions (see H. Res. 273)

Booklets

Prelude to the Crash of '87, 29268 [28OC]

Books

``Unsettling of American Culture and Agriculture,'' Wendell Berry (excerpt), 3389-3391 [25FE]

Chronologies

Farm credit, 3598 [26FE]

Essays

Wise Use of Consumer Credit: Mona M. Morgan, 11871 [14MY]

Explanations

Agriculture, Food, Trade, and Conservation Act (S. 1714)—Lugar/Dole compromise, 30088 [31OC]

Emergency Farm Credit Assistance Act (S.J. Res. 49), 2499 [19FE]

Farm Credit Administration reorganization (S. 1884): Zorinsky amendment, 33895 [3DE]

Factsheets

Fair Export Financing Act (S. 1763), 27277 [10OC]

Letters

Advance recourse farm loans: Charles L. Frazier, 3750 [27FE]

———Robert J. Mullins, 3750 [27FE]

Agricultural assistance programs: sundry, 29052, 29053 [24OC]

Agriculture: Steven D. Brokaw, 6962 [1AP]

Agriculture reform: President Reagan, 24696 [24SE]

Congressional hearings on the economic crisis in agriculture: Delmar K. Banner, 28034 [18OC]

———Donald E. Wilkinson, 28034 [18OC]

———Frank W. Naylor, Jr., 28034 [18OC]

Delinquent borrowing in the Farmers Home Administration: Ralph W. Perlone, 2500 [19FE]

Economic hardships of the small farmer: McCook County, SD, dairy farmer, 2391 [19FE]

Emergency farm credit assistance: John R. Block, Sec. of Agriculture, 3594 [26FE]

———sundry, 3356-3360 [25FE]

Extension of bankruptcy chapter 13 to farmers: Frank R. Kennedy, 16927 [24JN]

———George C. Paine II, 16925 [24JN]

———Herbert M. Graves, 16924 [24JN]

Fair Export Financing Act (S. 1763): Dept. of the Treasury, 27278 [10OC]

Farm credit: Allan Wiese, 24263 [19SE]

Farm Credit Administration Improvement Act (S. 466): Donald E. Wilkinson, 2483 [19FE]

Farm credit crisis: Federal Land Bank Association, 26785 [8OC]

Farm Credit Partnership Act, 32138 [14NO]

Farm Credit System: Representative de la Garza, 36856 [17DE]

Farm Credit System (H.R. 3792): Production Credit Association of Northern Ohio, 36325 [12DE]

Farm debt: FDIC (excerpt), 33078 [21NO]

Farm economic crisis: sundry, 33093 [21NO]

Farm program: Calvin O. Hultman and Delwyn Stromer, 28384 [22OC]

Financial crisis in farming: Duane Massey (excerpt), 2775 [20FE]

———Frank Conway (excerpt), 2772 [20FE]

———Representative Lindsay Thomas, 2624 [20FE]

———Senator Boren, 3389 [25FE]

———(sundry), 2458, 2460, 2463-2467 [19FE], 2787 [20FE]

———Thomas H. Olson, 3413 [25FE]

Funding for CCC: Senator Zorinsky, 19777 [19JY]

Impact of interest rates on farmers: Kevin Freese, 3849 [27FE]

Implementation of emergency farm credit assistance legislation: John R. Block, Sec. of Agriculture, 4594 [6MR]

———M.B. Oglesby, Jr., 4594 [6MR]

———Senator Boren, 4594 [6MR]

———several Members of Congress, 4597 [6MR]

Investment proposal by Consolidated Family Farms: Robert T. Stephan and Jeffrey S. Southard, 20433 [25JY]

———Senator Pressler, 20432 [25JY]

Overview of economic conditions in the Upper Minnesota Valley region: Otto Schmid, 33098 [21NO]

Reduction of principal and interest on restructured farm loans: Kansas Bankers Association, 3598 [26FE]

Sale of U.S. loan assets: H. James Toffey, 10783 [7MY]

———James D. Robinson III, 10784 [7MY]

———Peter A. Roberts, 10783 [7MY]

T.C. Lee farm: Collier Lee, Jr., 15280 [12JN]

Lists

Principles of sound money and credit, 32633 [20NO]

Manual

Bank Examination Policies: FDIC (excerpt), 3601 [26FE]

Memorials of legislature

Arizona, 10535 [6MY]

Arkansas, 4299 [4MR], 4811 [7MR], 5876 [20MR]

California, 3425 [25FE]

Colorado, 16123 [18JN]

Idaho, 6686 [28MR], 7028 [2AP]

Indiana, 7803 [15AP], 8568, 8569 [22AP]

Iowa, 2433 [19FE], 3425 [25FE], 15710 [13JN]

Kansas, 7028 [2AP]

Louisiana, 17519 [26JN], 17629 [27JN]

Massachusetts, 5728 [20MR], 7803 [15AP]

Michigan, 4401 [5MR], 5814, 5815 [20MR], 7025 [2AP]

Nebraska, 5175 [14MR]

North Dakota, 5987 [21MR], 8570 [22AP]

South Carolina, 9940 [30AP], 10023 [1MY]

Wyoming, 5728 [20MR], 6686, 6688 [28MR]

Motion

Agriculture: emergency farm credit assistance (H.R. 1189), recommit, 4146 [28FE]

Agriculture, Food, Trade, and Conservation Act: enact (S. 1714), recommit with instructions, 30087 [31OC]

Papers

Overview of Supervisory and Regulatory Aspects of Farm Credit System, 32136 [14NO]

Petitions

Farm crisis: Pennington County, MN, Commissioners, 26691 [8OC]

Federal deficit: South Carolina Association of Independent Banks, 17036 [25JN]

Financial assistance for farmers: American Farm Bureau Federation, Washington, DC, 4704 [6MR]

Rural economic crisis: Lincoln, NE, Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, 12823 [21MY]

Press releases

St. Paul announces 9 months financial results: Farm Credit Services, 29739 [30OC]

Proposals

Farm debt restructuring—modified debt recovery program: Communicating for Agriculture (organization), 2461-2463 [19FE]

Provisions

Farm Credit Administration reorganization (S. 1884): Helms amendment, 33878-33888 [3DE]

Questions and answers

Agricultural marketing loans, 9832 [30AP]

Remarks in House

Agricultural Export Expansion Act: enact (H.R. 1517), 5924 [20MR]

Agriculture: assistance programs (H.R. 2100), 24227, 24273-24279 [19SE], 24521-24530, 24532-24564 [20SE], 24597 [20SE], 24796 [24SE], 24877, 24886 [24SE], 24970-25038 [26SE], 25230 [26SE], 25323 [30SE], 25418-25467 [1OC], 25726-25736 [2OC], 25782 [2OC], 25889 [3OC], 25965 [7OC], 26028 [8OC], 26030 [7OC], 26035 [4OC]-26096 [3OC], 26143 [3OC], 26425-26465 [7OC], 26529 [8OC], 26532, 26546 [9OC]-26581, 26655 [8OC], 26665 [10OC]-26668 [8OC], 27032, 27038, 27045 [9OC], 27340 [10OC], 35821 [10DE], 38725 [19DE]

———crisis, 22981 [5SE]

———economic crisis, 1275 [30JA], 2370-2396 [19FE], 3356-3360 [25FE], 29052, 29061 [24OC]

———emergency farm credit assistance, 2370-2396 [19FE], 3356-3360 [25FE], 3850 [27FE], 24259-24264 [19SE], 29076 [24OC]

———emergency farm credit assistance (H.R. 1035), 3476 [25FE]

———emergency farm credit assistance (H.R. 1189), 4111-4113, 4133-4147 [28FE], 7130 [2AP]

———emergency farm credit assistance (H.R. 1189), recommit, 4146 [28FE]

———erosion of local control and participation in farmer-and rancher-owned farm credit system (H. Con. Res. 177), 19988 [23JY]

———establish a task force to make recommendations to Congress to solve farm credit crisis (H. Con. Res. 190), 23494 [12SE], 28738 [24OC], 29071, 29076 [24OC]

———issues, 2257-2261 [7FE], 24573-24579 [20SE]

———loan availability, 10613 [7MY]

———price supports (H.R. 2595), 13432 [23MY]

———provide for emergency credit, 2815 [20FE], 2878 [21FE], 3852-3854-3888 [27FE], 4328, 4394-4398 [5MR], 4654 [6MR], 14802-14804 [6JN]

———provide for emergency credit (H.R. 1397), 9383 [24AP]

———U.S. policy, 22971 [5SE]

AID: coordination with Eximbank's tied aid credit program (H.R. 3515), 30179 [1NO]

American Agricultural Defense Act: enact (H.R. 2595), 13432 [23MY]

Bankruptcy: extend chapter 13 for family farmers (H.R. 2211), 16923-16930 [24JN], 32483 [19NO]

Cards: finance charges (H.R. 1197), 2885 [21FE], 3065 [21FE]

Credit Card Interest Rate Limitation Act: enact (H.R. 3408), 24590 [20SE]

Credit cards: interest rates, 33681 [2DE]

———issuance of unsolicited, 34769 [5DE]

———permanent ban on surcharges (H.R. 24), 817 [22JA]

Dairy industry: proposed import quotas, 24877 [24SE]

Dairy Unity Act: enact (H.R. 2100), 26035 [4OC]

Debts: collection practices (H.R. 237), 33583 [2DE]

Emergency Farm Credit Relief Act: enact, 3851 [27FE]

Emergency Home Foreclosure Relief Act: enact (H.R. 3306), 23492 [12SE]

Equal Credit Opportunity Act: clarify application (H.R. 1575), 9262 [24AP], 13290 [22MY]

Eximbank: coordination with AID's tied aid credit program (H.R. 3515), 30179 [1NO]

Fair Credit Reporting Act: amend (H.R. 2967), 18929 [11JY]

Fair Debt Collection Practices Act: attorney accountability (H.R. 237), 1365 [31JA]

Family Farm Bankruptcy Act: enact, 19249 [16JY]

Family Farm Survival Act: enact (H.R. 2330), 10375 [2MY]

Family farms: economic assistance, 25419-25443 [1OC]

Farm credit: user fee, 15477 [12JN]

Farm Credit Administration: reorganize and strengthen (H.R. 3792), 32886 [20NO], 35174, 35175 [9DE], 35563, 35564-35589 [10DE], 35820 [10DE], 36325 [12DE], 37507 [17DE]

———reorganize and strengthen (S. 1884), 35606 [10DE], 37804-37809 [18DE]

Farm Credit Partnership Act: enact (H.R. 3868), 34770 [5DE]

Farm credit system, 26023 [3OC]

Farm Emergency Credit Act: enact, 24028 [17SE]

———enact (H.R. 1035), 3853 [27FE], 3875 [5MR]-3888 [27FE], 4274 [28FE], 5659, 5663 [19MR], 5935 [20MR], 9384 [24AP], 9773 [29AP], 10199 [1MY], 10581 [6MY], 21650 [30JY]

———enact (H.R. 1035), making certain engrossment changes, 3887 [27FE]

———enact (H.R. 1035), Senate amendment (H. Res. 92), 4347-4361 [5MR]

———enact (H.R. 1035), veto, 4394-4397 [5MR], 4654 [6MR], 4954, 4957-4959, 4960-4984, 5010, 5037 [7MR]

Farm policy: investigate credit system, 18907 [11JY]

Farmers: marketing loans, 25419, 25443 [1OC]

Farmers Home Administration: eligibility criteria, 26030 [3OC]

———interest rates on loans (H.R. 31), 415 [3JA]

———making certain administrative changes, 26024 [3OC]

Farmland Protection Policy Act: amend, 27032 [9OC]

Federal Financing Bank Act: amend (H.R. 1216), 3090 [21FE]

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.: anniversary, 20662 [25JY]

Federal Reserve Board: monetary policy, 8433 [18AP]

First Things First Credit Act: enact (H.R. 1553), 5597 [19MR]

FRS: impact of monetary policy, 13011 [22MY]

House of Representatives: credit union consumer loan costs, 22663 [1AU]

Mexico: debt servicing and prime rate, 13014 [22MY]

Minorities: equal access (H.R. 1575), 9262 [24AP], 13290 [22MY]

Money: economic crisis, 32633 [20NO]

Mortgages: secondary market, 20165 [23JY]

Sec. of Agriculture: request for meeting with farmers denied, 3852 [27FE]

Small Farmer Training and Technical Assistance Program: continue, 26024 [3OC]

Soil Conservation Act: enact (H.R. 2108), 8522 [18AP]

South Africa: U.S. policy, 22997, 22998 [9SE]

Stockman, David A.: farm policy, 1844, 1845, 1846 [6FE]

Student loans: consolidation of certain, 34170 [4DE]

Women: equal access (H.R. 1575), 9262 [24AP], 13290 [22MY]

Remarks in Senate

Agricultural Food, Trade, and Conservation Act: enact (S. 1714), 26249 [4OC]

Agriculture: assistance programs, 33362-33374 [22NO]

———consolidation of farm credit assistance programs (S. 435), 2165-2166 [7FE]

———continued participation by farmer/ranchers in the Farm Credit System (S. Con. Res. 57), 19606 [18JY]

———correct enrollment of H.R. 2100, credit assistance for farmers (H. Con. Res. 264), 38562 [19DE]

———credit, 31967 [14NO]

———credit crisis, 919 [24JA]

———crop loans (S. 433), 2080 [7FE]

———debt restructuring, 33076-33080 [21NO]

———economic assistance from rural banks, 2516 [19FE]

———economic crisis, 1188 [29JA], 1889-1892 [6FE], 2075, 2212 [7FE], 2438, 2439-2441, 2458-2467 [19FE], 2682, 2685, 2687, 2689-2690, 2695, 2717, 2765-2809 [20FE], 2946, 2954-2965, 2986-2999, 3005-3024 [21FE], 3105-3106, 3113, 3116, 3119-3146, 3223, 3241 [22FE], 3243-3245 [23FE], 3380, 3388-3391, 3402-3415, 3471 [25FE], 3573-3576, 3579, 3581-3602, 3609 [26FE], 3717-3755 [27FE], 4950 [7MR], 5736-5746, 5876 [20MR], 6167 [26MR], 6645 [28MR], 11298, 11460 [9MY], 12017 [15MY], 12352 [16MY], 13444 [23MY], 14198 [4JN], 20305 [24JY], 20742 [26JY], 23068 [9SE], 23167 [10SE], 23645 [12SE], 23915 [17SE], 24501 [20SE], 24955 [25SE], 26785 [8OC], 27183 [10OC], 29738-29741 [30OC], 29981 [31OC], 32865 [20NO], 36217 [12DE], 38565 [19DE]

———economic crisis in dairy industry, 22233 [1AU]

———emergency farm credit assistance, 1586 [31JA], 2438, 2439-2441, 2458-2467 [19FE], 3265-3291 [23FE], 3411-3415 [25FE], 3573-3576, 3581-3602 [26FE], 3717-3755 [27FE], 3992, 3993, 3995, 3999 [28FE], 4593, 4597 [6MR], 4836 [7MR], 5276 [18MR], 5369 [19MR], 33611 [2DE], 34458 [5DE]

———emergency farm credit assistance, veto, 4779 [7MR]

———emergency farm credit assistance (S. 371), 1567 [31JA]

———emergency farm credit assistance (S. 458), 2476 [19FE]

———emergency farm credit assistance (S. 459), 2478 [19FE]

———emergency farm credit assistance (S. Res. 67), 1990 [6FE]

———emergency farm credit assistance (S. Res. 79), 3327-3337 [23FE]

———emergency farm credit assistance (S.J. Res. 49), 2496 [19FE]

———establish debt adjustment program (S. 388), 1778 [5FE]

———family farm debt reorganization (S. 705), 5823 [20MR]

———family farm debt reorganization (S. 719), 5837 [20MR]

———farm legislation, 24693 [24SE]

———farm program, 27183 [10OC], 28384 [22OC]

———FDIC protection of agreement worked out with borrower prior to bank's failure (S. 1824), 30420 [4NO]

———impact of economic crisis on local governments, 24786 [24SE]

———intermediate export credits, 30087 [31OC]

———issues, 28101 [18OC]

———limit farm credit expenditures under act to assist African famine victims, 3730-3734 [27FE]

———opportunity for borrowers to restructure loans from commercial lenders (S. 1854), 32129, 32135-32138 [14NO], 32261 [18NO]

———opportunity for borrowers to restructure loans from commercial lenders (S. 1906), 34991 [6DE]

———pay levels of Farm Credit System officials, 30499 [5NO]

———postponement of hearings on economic crisis, 28033 [18OC]

———proposal by private investors to aid debt-stricken farmers, 20432 [25JY]

———protect borrowers and investors of farm credit system (S. 466), 2479 [19FE]

———protect purchasers of farm products from existing liens (S. 744), 6189 [26MR], 26237 [4OC]

———provide advance recourse loans, 3737-3746, 3749 [27FE]

———provide advance recourse loans (S. 776), 6665 [28MR], 8817 [23AP]

———provide credit (S. 1598), 22397 [1AU]

———provide income protection through crop management (S. 1083), 10834-10847 [7MY]

———provide marketing loans, 9831 [30AP]

———response of Lutheran Church to economic crisis, 8821 [23AP]

———status of guaranteed loan program, 8817 [23AP]

———study of alternatives for lower interest rates on loans (S. 1565), 22327 [1AU]

———study on farm credit system, 29263 [28OC]

———tax relief for certain insolvent farmers (S. 1341), 16792 [21JN]

Agriculture, Food, Trade, and Conservation Act: enact (S. 1714), 29284-29286 [28OC], 30087, 30088 [31OC], 31015-31018 [7NO], 38544-38547 [19DE], 38774 [20DE]

———enact (S. 1714), motion to recommit, 30087 [31OC]

Bankruptcy: proceedings involving debtors who are family farmers (S. 1516), 20952 [29JY]

Banks and banking: extend Net Worth Certificate Program, 25629 [2OC]

Boschwitz, Senator: efforts on drafting farm legislation, 23925 [17SE]

Budget: include CCC loans in sequester order, 27218, 27223 [10OC]

Business: establish prohibitions against credit discrimination (S. 1486), 19972 [23JY], 20303 [24JY], 22232, 22458 [1AU]

CCC: making urgent supplemental appropriations (H.J. Res. 342), 19777 [19JY]

Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act: enact (S. 1730), 27676-27680 [16OC]

Credit Cardholder Act: enact (S. 1922), 35928 [11DE]

Credit cards: prohibit surcharges (S. 212), 675 [21JA], 932 [24JA]

Dept. of Agriculture: improve administration of loan program (S. 1243), 14412 [5JN]

———marketing loans for soybeans, 33223, 33237 [22NO]

———require loan guarantees and grants to nonprofit national rural development and finance corporations, 33088 [21NO]

Dept. of Agriculture, rural development, and related agencies: reduce amounts authorized in H.R. 3037, making appropriations, 27663-27670 [16OC]

Economic conditions: public and private debt, 28492 [23OC]

Emergency Agricultural Marketing and Sales Act: enact (S. 1040), 10266 [2MY]

Executive departments: budgetary treatment of credit transactions (S. 502), 3246-3248 [23FE]

Eximbank: direct loan program, 11306 [9MY]

Fair Export Financing Act: enact (S. 1763), 27276, 27278 [10OC]

Family Farm Homestead Protection Act: enact (S. 1196), 13260 [22MY]

Farm Credit Administration: reorganize and strengthen (S. 1884), 33404-33406 [22NO], 33876-33932 [3DE], 34989, 34991 [6DE], 36843-36859 [17DE]

Farm Credit Partnership Act: enact (S. 1854), 32224 [18NO]

———enact (S. 1906), 34451 [5DE]

Farm Credit Relief Act: enact (S. 1151), 12295 [16MY], 20342 [24JY]

Farm Credit System: district boards of directors, 33891, 33894 [3DE]

———local control and stockholders' rights, 37536-37538 [18DE]

———long-term stability and private control of banking entities (S. 1790), 29175 [25OC]

———prevent consolidation of local boards, 31943-31946 [14NO]

———restructure of agricultural loans, 33896-33909, 33912, 33915-33921 [3DE]

———U.S. guarantees for certain obligations (S. 1738), 26249 [4OC]

———voluntary mergers of associations, 33909 [3DE]

Farm credit system: list of members and stockholders of institutions (S. 1589), 22377 [1AU]

———need to maintain and assist (S. Res. 211), 22490 [1AU]

Farm Credit System Review Commission: establish (S. 1599), 22397 [1AU]

Farmers Home Administration: expedite loan processing, 3576 [26FE], 3725 [27FE]

———loans, 33311-33313 [22NO]

———requirements for reduction of principal and interest on restructured farm loans, 3581 [26FE], 3717-3730 [27FE]

FDIC: provide equity to agricultural banks and their customers (S. 795), 6740 [28MR]

———reform bank liquidation procedures (S. 1199), 13584 [23MY]

Federal aid programs: credit fees, 14208 [4JN]

Government: sale of loan assets, 10782-10795 [7MY]

Government loan asset portfolio: sell, 29194 [25OC]

Latin America: ban loans relative to port access allowed to certain Soviet naval ships, 23751 [13SE], 23806-23813 [16SE]

Morgan, Mona M.: essay contest winner, 11871 [14MY]

Multifamily Housing Preservation Loan Act: enact (S. 1775), 28094-28096 [18OC]

National Advisory Commission on Rural America: establish, 33089-33100 [21NO]

National Commission on the Farm Credit System: establish (S. Con. Res. 64), 23777 [13SE]

National Credit Card Consumer Protection Act: enact (S. 1603), 22401 [1AU]

REA: exemptions from certain financing restrictions, 29147-29149 [25OC]

Sec. of Agriculture: authorize acquisition of easements on land that secures delinquent loans owed to Farmers Home Administration (S. 626), 4873 [7MR]

Reports

Agricultural Price Support, Export, Conservation, Credit, Research, Food Assistance: Committee on Rules (H.R. 2100; H. Res. 267) (H. Rept. 99-284), 24287 [19SE]

Agricultural Price Support, Export, Conservation, Credit, Research, and Food Assistance Programs: Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (H.R. 2100) (H. Rept. 99-271), 24177 [18SE]

———Committee on Rules (H.R. 2100; H. Res. 267) (H. Rept. 99-284), 24287 [19SE]

Agricultural Price Support, Exports, Conservation, Credit, Research, and Food Assistance Programs: Committee on Agriculture (H.R. 2100) (H. Rept. 99-271), 23696 [13SE]

Agriculture Assistance Programs: committee of conference (H.R. 2100) (H. Rept. 99-447), 37486 [17DE]

Bankruptcy Proceedings Involving Debtors Who Are Family Farmers: Committee on the Judiciary (H.R. 2211) (H. Rept. 99-178), 16580 [20JN]

Expand Export Markets for Agricultural Commodities, Provide Price and Income Protection for Farmers, and Continue Food Assistance: Committee on the Budget (S. 1714; S. Res. 235), 27263 [10OC]

Family Farmer Bankruptcy Reform Act (excerpt), 16925 [24JN]

Farm Credit System: Committee on Agriculture (excerpt), 35582 [10DE]

Farm Debt Restructuring: Dept. of Agriculture, 3728 [27FE]

Farm Emergency Credit Act: Committee on Agriculture (H.R. 1035) (H. Rept. 99-6), 3377 [25FE], 3568 [26FE]

———Committee on Rules (H.R. 1035; H. Res. 79) (H. Rept. 99-7), 3568 [26FE]

Farm Producer Emergency Credit: Committee on Rules (H.R. 1189; H. Res. 85) (H. Rept. 99-8), 3948 [27FE]

Farm Producer Funds to Forgo Foreclosure and Defer Indebtedness: Committee on Appropriations (H.R. 1189) (H. Rept. 99-1), 2938 [21FE]

Farmers Home Administration: Commission on Civil Rights (excerpt), 26026 [3OC]

Improve U.S. Farm Output Under Agricultural Productivity Act: Committee on Rules (H.R. 1383; H. Res. 201) (H. Rept. 99-173), 16121 [18JN]

Increase Participation by U.S. in International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Finance Corp., and African Development Fund: Committee on Foreign Relations (S. 684) (S. Rept. 99-38), 9444 [25AP]

Increased U.S. Participation in Sub-Saharan African Economic Affairs: Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs (H.R. 2253) (H. Rept. 99-122), 12008 [15MY]

Interstate Acquisitions of Depository Institutions: Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs (H.R. 2707) (H. Rept. 99-174), 16121 [18JN]

Monetary Policy: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (S. Rept. 99-22), 7029 [2AP]

Protect Agricultural Purchasers of Farm Products From Existing Liens: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (S. 744) (S. Rept. 99-147), 25851 [3OC]

Reorganize and Strengthen Farm Credit Administration: Committee on Agriculture (H.R. 3792) (H. Rept. 99-425), 34885 [6DE]

Sense of Congress in Support of Farm Aid Concert, Champaign, IL: Committee on Agriculture (H. Con. Res. 185) (H. Rept. 99-273), 23912 [17SE]

Trade Policy Perspectives—Setting the Stage for 1985 Agriculture Legislation: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (excerpt), 2690 [20FE]

Reports to constituents

Simon, Senator: Credit for Farmers Needed, 3216 [22FE]

Rulings of the Chair

Agriculture: assistance programs (H.R. 2100), 25025 [26SE]

———emergency farm credit assistance (H.R. 1189), 4146 [28FE]

Food Security Act: enact (H.R. 2100), 25419, 25455 [1OC]

Statements

Administration Policy Relative to the Farm Credit System, 35577 [10DE]

Agri-Community Crisis: Lutheran Church Midwest bishops, 8821 [23AP]

Budget, Deficits, and American Agriculture: Representative Wolpe, 2391 [19FE]

Emergency Farm Credit Assistance: Senator Johnston, 4142-4144 [28FE]

Farm Credit (sundry), 24259-24264 [19SE]

Farm Credit System: Dept. of the Treasury (excerpt), 35577 [10DE]

Farm Debt Restructuring: N. Rollie Lake, Communicating for Agriculture, Inc., 1586-1588 [31JA]

Farm Economic Crisis: sundry, 33091 [21NO]

Financial Crisis in Farming: American Bankers Association, 3880 [27FE]

———Arlan Meaders, 2958 [21FE]

———Bill Treadwell, 2956 [21FE]

———Darrel Riggins, 2957 [21FE]

———Farm Credit Administration (sundry excerpts), 3880 [27FE]

———James R. Eatherly, 2686 [20FE]

———Jim Montgomery, 2959 [21FE]

———Oklahoman farmer, 3870 [27FE]

———Robert McCord, 2959 [21FE]

———Senator Pryor, 2775 [20FE]

———(sundry), 3132 [22FE]

———William Crawford, 2685 [20FE]

Importance of Farming to Civilization: William Jennings Bryan, 5747 [20MR]

Joint Statement on Agricultural Policy by Former Secretaries of Agriculture, 19246 [16JY]

Mass Mailing of Credit Cards: Charles A. Agemian, 34770 [5DE]

Monetary Instability: Daniel Webster (1832), 32633 [20NO]

Retention of Eximbank Direct Loan Program (H.R. 1787): Representative Neal, 11307 [9MY]

Rural America and Small Business: Bob Meyer, 5274 [18MR]

Target prices for farm products: Dept. of Agriculture (excerpt), 10375 [2MY]

Temporary Farm Assistance Program: Bank of America, 3410 [25FE]

U.S. Agricultural Policy Analysis Issues and an Alternative Price Support and Supply Management Program: Raymond Daniel, 5741-5743 [20MR]

Summaries

Agricultural and Food Assistance Act Amendment (S. 1119), 18877 [11JY]

Agricultural and Food Assistance Act (S. 1119), 11532 [9MY]

Agricultural Loan Guarantee and Debt Restructuring Act, 2376 [19FE]

Agriculture, Food, Trade, and Conservation Act (S. 1714), 38546 [19DE]

Emergency Farm Credit Assistance (S. Res. 79), 3331 [23FE]

Farm Credit Soundness, Stability, and Private Ownership Restoration Act (S. 1790), 29176 [25OC]

Farm Emergency Credit Act (H.R. 1035), 2391 [19FE], 3861 [27FE], 4349 [5MR]

Farm Emergency Credit Act (S. 458), 2477 [19FE]

Homestead Protection Act (S. 388), 1780 [5FE]

Surveys

Agricultural Conditions (excerpt), 38545 [19DE]

Community Fighting an Economy—A Short Case Study of Current Rural and Agricultural Problems: Upper Minnesota Valley Regional Development Commission, 33095-33098 [21NO]

Tables

Agricultural debt-to-asset ratio, 4395 [5MR]

Agricultural loans, 3281 [23FE], 3722 [27FE]

Direct loan transactions of the Federal Government, 10788-10792 [7MY]

Distribution of farm debt, 29739 [30OC]

Farm financial situation, 33900 [3DE]

Farm real estate debt, by Farm Credit System district, 32135 [14NO]

Increase in the number of State and local farmland protection programs since 1980, 27032 [9OC]

Net farm income v. total farm debt, 2076 [7FE]

Testimonies

Impact of Farm Crisis: Bryce Luchterhand, 24588 [20SE]

Texts of

Agricultural Debt Recovery Act, 5369 [19MR]

Emergency farm credit assistance (excerpt), 3388 [25FE]

H.R. 31, Family Farm and Ranch Opportunity Act, 416 [3JA]

H.R. 1035, Farm Emergency Credit Act, 3876 [27FE]

H.R. 1197, lower finance charges on credit cards, 3066 [21FE]

H.R. 1517, Agricultural Export Expansion Act, 5924 [20MR]

H.R. 2211, Family Farmer Bankruptcy Reform Act, 16923 [24JN]

H.R. 3408, Credit Card Interest Rate Limitation Act, 24590 [20SE]

H.R. 3792, amendments to reorganize and strengthen the Farm Credit System, 35564-35574 [10DE]

H.R. 3868, Farm Credit Partnership Act, 34771 [5DE]

S. 212, prohibit surcharges on credit cards, 675 [21JA]

S. 371, emergency farm credit assistance, 1568 [31JA]

S. 388, Homestead Protection Act, 1779 [5FE]

S. 433, agricultural crop loans, 2082 [7FE]

S. 435, consolidation of farm credit assistance programs, 2166-2170 [7FE]

S. 458, emergency farm credit assistance, 2477 [19FE]

S. 459, emergency farm credit assistance, 2478 [19FE]

S. 466, protect borrowers and investors of farm credit system, 2480 [19FE]

S. 502, Credit Accounting Reform Act, 3248-3250 [23FE]

S. 626, authorize Sec. of Agriculture to acquire easements on land that secures delinquent loans owed to Farmers Home Administration, 4873 [7MR]

S. 705, Family Farm Reorganization Act, 5824 [20MR]

S. 719, Modified Agricultural Debt Recovery Act, 5837 [20MR]

S. 776, Farm Emergency Credit Act, 6666 [28MR]

S. 795, provide equity to agricultural banks and their customers, 6740 [28MR]

S. 1083, Farm Policy Reform Act, 10834-10847 [7MY]

S. 1119, Agricultural and Food Assistance Act, 11506-11532 [9MY]

S. 1151, Farm Credit Relief Act, 12295 [16MY]

S. 1199, Bank Liquidation Reform Act, 13585 [23MY]

S. 1341, Agricultural Land Value Tax Act, 16795 [21JN]

S. 1486, establish prohibitions against business credit discrimination, 19972 [23JY]

S. 1516, bankruptcy proceedings involving debtors who are family farmers, 20952 [29JY]

S. 1565, study of alternatives for lower interest rates on agricultural loans, 22328 [1AU]

S. 1603, National Credit Card Consumer Protection Act, 22401 [1AU]

S. 1763, Fair Export Financing Act, 27276 [10OC]

S. 1775, Multifamily Housing Preservation Loan Act, 28094 [18OC]

S. 1854, Farm Credit Partnership Act, 32130-32134 [14NO]

S. 1884, Farm Credit Administration reorganization, 33921-33932 [3DE]

S. 1884, reorganize and strengthen Farm Credit System, 36843-36853 [17DE]

S. 1906, Farm Credit Partnership Act, 34452-34453 [5DE]

S. 1922, Credit Cardholder Act, 35929 [11DE]

S. Con. Res. 17, emergency farm credit, 2755 [20FE]

S. Con. Res. 57, continued participation by farmer/ranchers in the Farm Credit System, 19605 [18JY]

S. Con. Res. 64, establish the National Commission on the Farm Credit System, 23777 [13SE]

S. Res. 67, emergency farm credit assistance, 1989 [6FE]

S. Res. 79, emergency farm credit assistance, 3336 [23FE], 3598 [26FE]

S. Res. 160, establish commission to study economic crisis in agriculture, 11537 [9MY]

S. Res. 211, maintain and assist farm credit system, 22491 [1AU]

S.J. Res. 49, emergency farm credit assistance, 2497-2499 [19FE]

Uniform Commercial Code (excerpt), 6189 [26MR]