RURAL AREAS related term(s) Agriculture

Addresses

Rural Electric Association's Anniversary: Leo Flynn, 15227 [11JN]

Amendments

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]

Dept. of Agriculture, rural development, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 3037), 25308 [30SE], 27462, 27463, 27464, 27559 [15OC], 27661, 27663, 27669, 27673, 27684, 27704 [16OC]

Analyses

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

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

Making Technical and Conforming Changes in U.S. Code Relative to Shipping (S. 597), 10494 [6MY]

Appointments

Conferees: H.R. 3037 making appropriations for the Dept. of Agriculture, rural development, and related agencies, 35174 [9DE]

———H.R. 3037, Dept. of Agriculture, rural development, and related agencies appropriations, 27699 [16OC]

Articles and editorials

1935—The Year the Lights Came on in Rural Georgia, 10667 [7MY]

ARC's Mandate Not Yet Fulfilled, 11373 [9MY]

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

Census Bureau Says Rural Growth Slackening, 33092 [21NO]

City-Rural Coalition Sought, 9549 [25AP]

Cleansed, 23645 [12SE]

Complex Problems and Simple Solutions, 29061 [24OC]

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

County Wants To Know How, Which Farmers, To Help, 32868 [20NO]

Derailing the Maine Central?, 38554 [19DE]

Easing by Fed Called at an End, 3364 [25FE]

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

Enterprise Zones Are Showing Some Success, 6246 [26MR]

Fair Warning to Agriculture, 29062 [24OC]

Family Sees Farm Slip Away, 32868 [20NO]

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

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

Farm Earnings Plummet 62 Percent in State in 1984, 32866 [20NO]

Farm Failures Threaten To Reshape Rural U.S., 1144 [28JA], 1189 [29JA]

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

Farmers' Health Jeopardized by Stress, 32867 [20NO]

Farms Can't Wait, 6645 [28MR]

Farms' Crisis Endangering Rural Towns, 32865 [20NO]

Fed Stops Easing Monetary Policy, 3364 [25FE]

Federal Funding Is Vital, 1152 [28JA]

Fields of Fears, 14198 [4JN]

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

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

Gunboat Economics, 3362 [25FE]

Hands of Anger, Frustration, Humiliation, 37857 [18DE]

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

Iowa, National Menace, 14200 [4JN]

Jackson Visits Sugar Ditch Residents, 19588 [18JY]

Louisville's Zone Targets People, 28597 [23OC]

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

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

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

REA Is 50—More Power To It, 10665 [7MY]

REA Was Different—A Partnership, Not a Handout, 11989 [15MY]

Rural Southern Towns Find Manufacturing Boom Fading, 19589 [18JY]

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

Small Town Story, 24955 [25SE]

Small Towns Can't Wait for Agricultural Comeback, 24787 [24SE]

State Will Spend $703,000 To Save 200 Farming Acres, 33087 [21NO]

Sugar Sickens Free Traders, 5761 [20MR]

Sugar Workers' Role, 4950 [7MR]

That Farm Bill, 24693 [24SE]

Thatcher Leaves Her Woes Behind, 3366 [25FE]

Top Kenyon Area Farmer Faces Tough Financial Problems, 32869 [20NO]

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

Unpaid Mortgages Burden for Town, 13863 [24MY]

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

Vogel and Kohl Clip Off Political Wings of West German Parties, 3363 [25FE]

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

Bills and resolutions

Aeronautics: support of essential service (see H. Con. Res. 71)

Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service: county and local committee selection procedures (see H.R. 542)

Agriculture: bankruptcy proceedings relative to farmers (see H.R. 1397, 1399)

———crop loans (see S. 433)

Airports: reserved slots for service to small communities (see H.R. 2207)

Alaska: transportation of cargo to remote communities by fishing industry vessels (see S. 597)

Appalachian Regional Development Act: amend (see H.R. 10)

———extend (see S. 847)

Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act: amend (see H.R. 987)

———limit maximum interest rate applicable to loans (see H.R. 2328)

Corporations: community impact statements on mergers (see H.R. 960)

Dept. of Agriculture and Rural Development: establish Rural Development Administration (see S. 1243; H.R. 1842, 2803)

Development programs: authorize appropriations (see H.R. 3037)

Economic conditions: prenotification and assistance for dislocation of business concerns (see H.R. 1212)

———President's emergency declaration (see H. Res. 93)

Electric cooperatives: qualified cash or deferred arrangement included in defined contribution plan (see S. 896; H.R. 1615)

Enterprise Zone Employment and Development Act: enact (see H.R. 38)

Enterprise zones: establish (see H.R. 4008)

Family Farmers and Rural America (see H. Con. Res. 84)

Farmers: debt adjustment program for guaranteed loans (see S. 388)

Farmers Home Administration: interest rates on loans (see H.R. 31)

Hazardous substances: prohibiting land disposal and availability of funds to equalize cost of landfill and treatment (see H.R. 919)

Job Corps Program: continuation (see H. Res. 72)

Medicare: implement revised prospective payment wage index for hospitals (see S. 1096)

———increase payment for inpatient services in certain high cost hospitals (see H.R. 3767)

———requirement for service provided by clinical psychologist in rural health clinic (see S. 1244)

———treatment of rural osteopathic hospitals under prospective payment system (see S. 1317; H.R. 2680)

Medicare/medicaid: coverage of services provided by clinical psychologist in rural health clinic (see H.R. 3281)

National Conference on Cities and Towns: authorize (see H.R. 3833)

National Health Service Corps: revise and extend program (H.R. 2237), provide for consideration of (see H. Res. 287)

Postal Service: local government discretion to assign mailing addresses to sites within their jurisdictions (see H.R. 3582)

———tax deduction by mail carriers for use of private vehicles (see S. 855; H.R. 1884)

Public Works and Economic Development Act: amend (see H.R. 10)

REA: anniversary (see S. Res. 148; H. Res. 144)

———support (see S.J. Res. 16)

Roads and highways: billboard restrictions adjacent to interstate and Federal-aid primary highways (see S. 1494)

Rural Development Administration: establish (see S. 1243; H.R. 1842, 2803)

Technology: Dept. of Agriculture grants for development centers (see H.R. 1841)

Transportation: access to medical care and social service programs (see S. 1601)

Water: Farmers Home Administration's standards of eligibility for certain system construction grants (see S. 382)

Water systems facilities: exemption from certain right-of-way rental payments (see H.R. 3617)

Booklets

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

Books

``Next Greatest Thing—50 Years of Rural Electrification in America'': National Rural Electric Cooperatives Association (excerpt), 10662 [7MY]

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

Essays

Quirk in My Personality: Oklahoma college student, 24501 [20SE]

Explanations

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

Letters

Advice for the farm family: Agnes Kubik, 13445 [23MY]

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

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]

Emergency farm credit assistance: sundry, 3356-3360 [25FE]

Farm credit: Allan Wiese, 24263 [19SE]

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

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

Farm economic crisis: sundry, 33093 [21NO]

Financial crisis in farming: Senator Boren, 3389 [25FE]

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]

Low-power television broadcasts: Dorothy Schrader, 21421 [30JY]

———Senator Mathias and Representative Kastenmeir, 21420 [30JY]

Medicare coverage of mental health services in rural health clinics: Carolyne K. Davis, 14413 [5JN]

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

Reimbursement payment system to rural hospitals under medicare (sundry), 6578, 6581 [28MR]

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

Memorials of legislature

Arkansas, 5876 [20MR]

California, 9440 [25AP], 22898 [4SE]

Federated States of Micronesia, Kolonia, Ponape, Eastern Caroline Islands, 10696 [7MY]

Hawaii, 6686 [28MR], 11497 [9MY], 12010 [15MY]

Idaho, 5584 [19MR], 6686 [28MR]

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

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

Kansas, 5584 [19MR], 8057 [16AP]

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

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

Michigan, 5814, 5815 [20MR]

Micronesia, Federated States of, 11499 [9MY]

Minnesota, 14738 [6JN]

Nebraska, 5584 [19MR]

Nevada, 14738 [6JN], 16251 [19JN]

New Mexico, 7814 [15AP], 8568 [22AP]

North Dakota, 7027 [2AP], 8569 [22AP]

Oregon, 11497 [9MY], 15710 [13JN]

South Carolina, 9939 [30AP], 10023 [1MY]

Wyoming, 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]

Petitions

Economy of rural America and other farming programs: Public Power District, Stanton County, NE, 1507 [31JA]

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

Farmers and financial crisis: National Association of State Departments of Agriculture, 34885 [6DE]

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

Soil Conservation Service: Florence, SC, County Council, 20476 [25JY]

Pledge

4-H Clubs, 27442 [15OC]

Prayers

Petition on Behalf of the Farmers of Our Land: Henry Greiner, 36218 [12DE]

Seed-Time and Harvest-Time: Jene Miller, 12352 [16MY]

Press releases

Actresses testify on farm crisis: House Democratic Caucus Task Force, 11300 [9MY]

Questions and answers

Agricultural marketing loans, 9832 [30AP]

Remarks in House

Aged: overview of survey of rural services, 8789 [22AP]

Agricultural Credit and Rural Development Act: enact (H.R. 2107), 8475 [18AP]

Agriculture: crisis, 22981 [5SE]

———economic crisis, 1275 [30JA], 3356-3360 [25FE], 6026, 6027, 6028 [25MR], 6909, 6919 [1AP], 7585, 7597-7604 [4AP], 29052, 29061 [24OC]

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

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

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

———establish centers for rural technology and development: (H.R. 1841), 6860 [28MR]

———issues, 24573-24579 [20SE]

———provide for emergency credit, 3852-3854-3888 [27FE], 4328, 4394-4398 [5MR], 4654 [6MR]

Alaska: transportation of cargo to remote communities by fishing industry vessels (S. 597), 10493 [6MY]

Budget: response to proposals to eliminate revenue sharing, 1152 [28JA]

Centers for rural technology development: establish, 17560 [26JN]

Dept. of Agriculture, rural development, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 3037), 20219-20242 [24JY], 20833-20836 [26JY], 22048 [31JY]

———making appropriations (H.R. 3037), appointment of conferees, 35174 [9DE]

———making appropriations (H.R. 3037), permission to file conference report, 36175 [12DE]

———making appropriations (H.R. 3037), waiving certain points of order against consideration (H. Res. 232), 20217 [24JY]

Dept. of Agriculture and Rural Development: establish (H.R. 1842), 6860 [28MR]

Dept. of Agriculture Reorganization Act: enact, 17955 [27JN]

Economic conditions: foreign trade policy, 6026, 6027, 6028 [25MR]

Enterprise zones: proposed, 13006 [22MY]

Farm Emergency Credit Act: 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]

Federal Employee Recruitment and Retention Improvement Act: enact (H.R. 2836), 16758 [20JN]

Fountain, William E.: California Medical Association Frederick K.M. Plessner Memorial Award recipient, 6513 [27MR]

Job Corps Program: continuation (H. Res. 72), 6474 [27MR]

———funding, 3850 [27FE]

Medicare: hospital reimbursement plan, 6577 [28MR]

———prospective rural hospitals payment rates, 6997 [1AP]

———reimbursements to rural hospitals (H.R. 3767), 32204 [14NO]

———rural hospital reimbursement, 5010-5042 [7MR]

Moniteau County, MO: anniversary, 7532 [3AP]

National Health Service Corps: revise and extend program (H.R. 2237), 9551 [25AP]

Osteopathic rural hospitals: enable certain to qualify for status as rural referral centers under medicare (H.R. 2680), 14537 [5JN]

Railroads: service, 6866 [28MR]

REA: anniversary, 10643-10670 [7MY], 11176, 11189 [8MY], 11593, 11595, 11605 [9MY], 11923, 11934 [14MY], 11989 [15MY], 12194 [15MY], 12409 [16MY], 13309, 13345 [22MY]

———anniversary (H. Res. 144), 9560 [25AP]

———engineering specifications standardization, 7515 [3AP]

Reagan, President: economic policy relative to rural areas, 1657 [4FE]

Regan, Donald: Soviet grain embargo and farm policy, 19992 [23JY]

Rural electric cooperatives: allow defined contribution plan to include qualified cash or deferred arrangement (H.R. 1615), 5895 [20MR]

Rural hospitals: expand the swing bed program, 19053 [15JY]

Rural Housing Escrow Procedures Act: enact (H.R. 2584), 13862 [24MY]

Social Security: psychologist's services (H.R. 3281), 23534 [12SE]

Social services: effect of budget cuts on senior citizens and handicapped, 7548 [3AP]

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

Speed limit: permit increase on rural interstates, 3852 [27FE]

Television: scrambling of news transmissions signals to prevent reception by earth stations, 32208 [18NO]

Unemployment: reduce, 3853 [27FE]

Veterans: provide educational assistance for apprenticeship and other on-the-job training programs (H.R. 3282), 23534 [12SE]

Water systems facilities: exemption from certain right-of-way rental payments (H.R. 3617), 29056 [24OC]

Remarks in Senate

Agriculture: credit, 31967 [14NO]

———crop loans (S. 433), 2080 [7FE]

———dairy price support program, 24419 [20SE]

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

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

———economic crisis, 1188 [29JA], 2075, 2212 [7FE], 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, 3265-3291 [23FE], 3411-3415 [25FE], 4593, 4597 [6MR], 4836 [7MR], 5276 [18MR], 5369 [19MR], 34458 [5DE]

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

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

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

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

———farm legislation, 24693 [24SE], 27712 [16OC]

———farm productivity, 23167 [10SE]

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

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

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

———issues, 28101 [18OC]

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

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

———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]

———strengthen use of stabilization and conservation committee system to administer farm programs (S. 355), 1542 [31JA]

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

———sugar price support program, 5761 [20MR]

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]

Alaska: transportation of cargo to remote communities by fishing industry vessels (S. 597), 4608 [6MR]

American Jewish Committee: denouncement of activities of Christian Indentity groups, 24501 [20SE]

Appalachian Regional Commission: authorizing appropriations (S. 847), 7821 [15AP]

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

Budget: Community Development Block Grant Program funding, 11371-11378, 11443-11446 [9MY]

———provide that deficit reductions not be made disproportionately from programs targeted for less populated areas, 26733 [8OC]

Burr, Dale: murder/suicide, 36217 [12DE]

Conrail: sale, 38552 [19DE]

Cooperative societies: qualified cash or deferred arrangements included in defined contribution plan (S. 896), 7645 [4AP]

Dept. of Agriculture: appointments to the Joint Council on Food and Agricultural Sciences, 29266 [28OC]

———appointments to the National Agricultural Research and Extension Users' Advisory Board, 29266 [28OC]

———farm program, 20774-20777 [26JY]

———funding for eradication of grasshoppers and mormon crickets, 33106-33108 [21NO]

———funding for research, 10795-10798 [7MY]

———importance of extension service, 19610 [18JY]

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

———leasing authority of Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, 16671 [20JN]

———prohibitions on closing of Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service's local offices, 27459 [15OC]

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

———requirements for commodity purchases and procurement of transportation services, 25308 [30SE]

Dept. of Agriculture, rural development, and related agencies: making appropriations (H.R. 3037), 25308 [30SE], 27447-27467 [15OC], 27660-27676, 27680-27686, 27696-27699 [16OC]

———making appropriations (H.R. 3037), appointment of conferees, 27699 [16OC]

———making appropriations (H.R. 3037), unanimous-consent agreement, 27672 [16OC]

———reduce amounts authorized in H.R. 3037, making appropriations, 27663-27670 [16OC]

Dept. of HHS: implement prospective payment wage index for hospitals under medicare (S. 1096), 11008 [8MY]

Economic conditions, 32865 [20NO]

———maintain Economic Assistance Development Program, 11451 [9MY]

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

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

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

Farm Credit System: prevent consolidation of local boards, 31943-31946 [14NO]

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

Farmers Home Administration: permit sale of development rights to certain land, 33086 [21NO]

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

Fountain, William E.: award recipient, 7945 [16AP]

FRS: require impact statement relative to the effects of monetary policies on agriculture and small business (S. 589), 4480 [5MR], 4947 [7MR]

Housing: funding, 11397-11404 [9MY]

Jews: antisemitic activities by rural extremist groups, 24784 [24SE]

Kentucky: enterprise zone legislation, 28597 [23OC]

Larson, Randi: tribute, 27442 [15OC]

McColly, Robert: tribute, 16204 [19JN]

Medicare: payment for psychological services provided in rural health clinics (S. 1244), 14413 [5JN]

———payments to sole community hospitals, 31733-31735 [13NO]

———treatment of rural osteopathic hospitals under prospective payment system (S. 1317), 16028 [18JN]

Missouri: success of enterprise zones, 6246 [26MR]

Motor vehicles: raise speed limits (S. 329), 1529 [31JA]

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

National Commission on Rural America: establish, 35426 [9DE]

National 4-H Week: observance, 27442 [15OC]

National Self-Help Housing Day: designate (S.J. Res. 55), 2745 [20FE]

Postal Service: relief for certain employees (S. 855), 7347 [3AP]

Poverty: conditions in South, 19587 [18JY]

REA: anniversary, 10566 [6MY], 10886-10896 [7MY], 10939, 11043, 11058 [8MY], 11311 [9MY], 12172 [15MY], 13652 [23MY], 14421 [5JN]

———commemorating anniversary (S. Res. 148), 9677 [29AP], 20773 [26JY]

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

———funding, 11485 [9MY]

———support (S.J. Res. 16), 321 [3JA]

Research: funding for plant and animal studies center, 27685 [16OC]

South Dakota: authorize Lyman-Jones and West River water projects (S. 1471), 19603 [18JY]

Television: clarify status of low-power transmissions (S. 1526), 21420 [30JY]

Transportation: clarify funding formula (S. 1601), 22399 [1AU]

Tronson, Melissa: tribute, 27442 [15OC]

Willer, Jeff: tribute, 27442 [15OC]

Reports

Appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies: Committee on Appropriations (H.R. 3037) (S. Rept. 99-137), 24757 [24SE]

Appropriations for Indian Health Care Services: Committee on Energy and Commerce (H.R. 1426) (H. Rept. 99-94), 13435 [23MY]

Appropriations for the Dept. of Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies (H.R. 3037): Committee on Appropriations (excerpt), 27460 [15OC], 27673, 27674 [16OC]

Commemorate Anniversary of REA: Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (S. Res. 148), 14156 [4JN]

Dept. of Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations: Committee on Appropriations (H.R. 3037) (H. Rept. 99-211), 19670, 19700 [18JY]

———Committee on Rules (H.R. 3037; H. Res. 232) (H. Rept. 99-218), 20137 [23JY]

———committee of conference (H.R. 3037) (H. Rept. 99-439), 36202-36208, 36209 [12DE]

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]

Extend Programs for National Health Service Corps: Committee on Energy and Commerce (H.R. 2237) (H. Rept. 99-144), 13435 [23MY]

Extend Referendum Time for National Marketing Quota for Wheat: Committee on Agriculture (H.R. 1614) (H. Rept. 99-146), 13435 [23MY]

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]

Housing Act: Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs (H.R. 1) (H. Rept. 99-230), 22897 [4SE]

Housing Law Extension: Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs (H.R. 1) (H. Rept. 99-230), 20837 [26JY]

Improve Productivity of American Farmers: Committee on Agriculture (H.R. 1383) (H. Rept. 99-126), 12009 [15MY]

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

National Agriculture Day: Committee on the Judiciary (S.J. Res. 70), 6171 [26MR]

National Health Service Corps Program Extension: Committee on Rules (H.R. 2237; H. Res. 287) (H. Rept. 99-302), 26108 [3OC]

National School Lunch and Nutrition Program Improvement: Committee on Rules (H.R. 7; H. Res. 262) (H. Rept. 99-263), 23442 [11SE]

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

Transportation of Cargo to Remote Alaskan Communities by Fishing Industry Vessels: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (S. 597) (S. Rept. 99-26), 7812 [15AP]

Reports to constituents

Hamilton, Lee H.: Rural Economy, 13343 [22MY]

Rulings of the Chair

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

Statements

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

Benefits of Electrification (sundry), 10644, 10649, 10650, 10651, 10652 [7MY]

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

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

Farm Economic Crisis: sundry, 33091 [21NO]

Financial Crisis in Farming: Arlan Meaders, 2958 [21FE]

———Bill Treadwell, 2956 [21FE]

———Darrel Riggins, 2957 [21FE]

———Jim Montgomery, 2959 [21FE]

———Robert McCord, 2959 [21FE]

Human Dimensions of the Farm Crisis: Jane Fonda, 11298 [9MY]

———Jessica Lange, 11298 [9MY]

———Sally Field, 11298 [9MY]

———Sissy Spacek, 11299 [9MY]

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

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

Rural Electrification: Robert McColly, 16204 [19JN]

Rural electrification: Eva Reese, 10891 [7MY]

———Lois Faulkner, 10889 [7MY]

———Maxine Brown, 10891 [7MY]

Soviet Grain Embargo and Farm Policy (Donald Regan), 19992 [23JY]

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]

Studies

Impact of EEC Sweetener Policies on U.S. and World Producers: Economic Perspectives, Inc. (excerpt), 5762 [20MR]

Summaries

Agricultural Credit and Rural Development Act (H.R. 2107), 8475 [18AP]

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

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

Farm Emergency Credit Act (H.R. 1035), 4349 [5MR]

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]

Comparative statement of new budget authority, 38433-38438 [19DE]

Comparison of recommendations in the agriculture appropriations (H.R. 3037), with budget authority authorized in the farm bill, 27669 [16OC]

Comparison of the agriculture appropriations (H.R. 3037), with the congressional budget, the House-passed bill, and the President's budget request, 27697 [16OC]

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

Texts of

Agricultural Debt Recovery Act, 5369 [19MR]

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

H.R. 1615, allow defined contribution plan in rural electric cooperatives to include qualified cash or deferred arrangement, 11615 [20MR]

H.R. 2107, Agricultural Credit and Rural Development Act, 8475-8477 [18AP]

H.R. 2836, Federal Employee Recruitment and Retention Improvement Act, 16759 [20JN]

H.R. 3037, Dept. of Agriculture, rural development, and related agencies appropriations, 20231 [24JY]

H.R. 3037, making appropriations for the Dept. of Agriculture, rural development, and related agencies, 27447-27456 [15OC]

H.R. 3281, clinical psychologist's services in rural areas under medicare and medicaid, 23534 [12SE]

H.R. 3282, educational assistance for apprenticeship or other on-the-job training programs, 23535 [12SE]

H.R. 3617, exempt rural water systems facilities from certain right-of-way rental payments, 29057 [24OC]

S. 329, raise highway speed limits, 1530 [31JA]

S. 355, strengthen use of stabilization and conservation committee system to administer farm programs, 1542 [31JA]

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

S. 589, require impact statement by FRS relative to effects of monetary policies on agriculture and small business, 4480 [5MR]

S. 597, making technical and conforming changes in U.S. Code relative to shipping, 10493 [6MY]

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. 855, relief for certain rural Postal Service employees, 7348 [3AP]

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

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

S. 1244, medicare payments for psychological services provided in rural health clinics, 14413 [5JN]

S. 1282, funds for primary medical care, 15335-15337 [12JN]

S. 1526, clarify status of low-power television transmissions, 21420 [30JY]

S. 1601, clarify funding formula for rural transportation systems, 22400 [1AU]

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

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

S. Res. 148, commemorating anniversary of REA, 9677 [29AP], 20774 [26JY]

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

Transcripts

Hate Groups: 20/20 (ABC News), 24784-24786 [24SE]