COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE (House)

Appointments

de la Garza, Representative (H. Res. 39), 983 [8JA]

Members (H. Res. 45), 1760 [21JA]

Members (H. Res. 54), 1828 [22JA]

Bills and resolutions

Foreign trade: accreditation as delegates to negotiations (see H.R. 727)

Investigations and studies: funds (see H. Res. 93)

Hearings

Acreage Diversion Pilot Program Act (H.R. 1157)

Agricultural Credit Act (H.R. 3030): (testimony), D615 [15SE]

Agricultural credit legislative proposals: (testimony), D340 [12MY], D346 [13MY], D350 [14MY], D373 [21MY]

Agricultural exports, D166 [18MR]

Agricultural trade and food assistance programs (testimony), D157 [17MR]

CFTC regulatory activities (testimony), D200 [26MR]

Commodity program decoupling concept: (testimony from Senator Boschwitz and Representative Bruce), D146 [12MR]

Conveyance of certain lands, mineral interests, and release of certain reversionary interests: (testimony from Representative Quillen and George Leonard), D104 [3MR]

Cotton Stabilization Program (H.R. 1622): (testimony), D165 [18MR]

Dark air and dark fire-cured tobacco quotas (testimony), D219 [1AP]

Dept. of Agriculture budget (testimony from Peter Meyers), D131 [10MR]

Dept. of Agriculture recommendations and a GAO report on farm program payment limitations, D290 [28AP]

———(testimony), D269 [22AP], D278 [23AP]

Dept. of Agriculture's alternative procedure for exchanging generic commodity certificates for wheat: (testimony), D818 [17NO]

Dept. of Agriculture use of generic commodity certificates to make payments under commodity programs(testimony), D239 [7AP]

Designate certain national forest lands in Virginia and West Virginia as wilderness areas (H.R. 2878), D669 [30SE]

Effects of consumption of tropical oils on the soybean program: (testimony), D607 [10SE]

Emergency disaster assistance (testimony from Representatives Tallon, Whittaker, and Traxler, Peter C. Myers, and public witnesses), D59 [11FE]

Farm Credit Act amendments: (testimony from Frank Naylor, Jim Billington, and Marvin R. Duncan), D146 [12MR]

Farm Credit System: (testimony), D396 [3JN], D410 [9JN]

Farm Credit System restructuring of nonaccrual loans, D442 [18JN]

Farmers Home Administration policies and activities: (testimony from Vance L. Clark), D117 [5MR]

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act: (testimony), D415 [10JN]

Federal Land Exchange Facilitation Act (H.R. 1860): (testimony), D501 [9JY]

Futures Trading Act implementation (testimony), D200 [26MR]

GAO report on the application of the limitation imposed on farm program payments (testimony), D220 [1AP]

GAO report relative to claims adjustment procedures in the Federal Crop Insurance Program (testimony), D296 [29AP]

GAO proposal of a strategy to assist the Farm Credit System: (testimony), D239 [7AP]

Groundwater quality, D623 [16SE]

———(testimony), D553 [28JY]

Hunger and the homeless (testimony from Representatives Leland and DioGuardi, John Bode, and public witnesses), D58 [10FE]

Impact of Federal Grain Inspection Service's protein measurement on wheat prices, D806 [10NO]

Implementation of marketing loan concept to commodity programs (testimony), D174 [19MR]

Improve administration of Dept. of Agriculture commodity distribution activities: (testimony), D166 [18MR]

Indemnity payments to sunflower producers (H.R. 3549): (testimony), D799 [9NO]

Inspector General overview, and Office of the General Counsel, D97 [27FE]

Lower Des Plaines tributaries project, IA and Food Security Act amendments: (testimony), D255 [9AP]

Mandatory production controls applied to commodity programs (testimony), D214 [31MR]

Meat inspection programs: (testimony), D247 [8AP]

Michigan Wilderness Heritage Act (H.R. 148) (testimony), D166 [18MR]

Montana Natural Resources and Utilization Act (H.R. 2090): (testimony), D486 [1JY]

National forest timber sales, D435 [17JN]

———(testimony), D442 [18JN]

National Institute for New Agriculture and Forestry Industrial Materials Act (H.R. 1197), D890 [15DE]

Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act amendments (H.R. 692, 1176 and 1246) (testimony), D208 [30MR]

Plant stress and water conservation research laboratory and program in Lubbock, TX (H.R. 2663): (testimony), D453 [23JN]

Quality control and fiscal sanctions system in the food stamp program: (testimony), D748 [22OC]

REA and FCIC policies and activities (testimony from Harold V. Hunter and E. Ray Fosse), D139 [11MR]

Recent forest fires in the western U.S.: (testimony), D804 [10NO]

Recent volatility in domestic securities and futures markets: (testimony), D787 [4NO]

Renewable Resources Extension Act reauthorization: (testimony), D373 [21MY]

Renewable Resources Planning Act (testimony), D247 [8AP]

Require pizza products containing imitation cheese and meat to be labled to reflect the fact that imitation cheese is contained therein (H.R. 3232): (testimony), D607 [10SE]

Review EPA's pesticide regulation programs: (testimony), D239 [7AP]

Review of Dairy Termination Program and related issues: (testimony), D420 [11JN]

Review of pesticide certification program for domestic and imported tobacco: (testimony), D420 [11JN]

Role of local governments in the regulation of pesticides: (testimony), D428 [16JN]

Rural Area Revitalization Act (H.R. 1800): (testimony), D360 [19MY]

Rural Development Reorganization Act (H.R. 2026): (testimony), D360 [19MY]

Secondary market for farm real estate mortgages: (testimony), D304 [30AP]

State of agriculture (testimony from Richard Lyng, Sec. of Agriculture), D84 [25FE]

Status and implementation of dairy termination program and trade issues related to livestock, dairy and poultry industries: (testimony from Charles Shaw, Jerry Newcomb, Leo V. Mayer, Susan Early, and public witnesses), D109 [4MR]

———(testimony from Representatives Dorgan, Daub, and Staggers, and Darwin Carter), D109 [4MR]

Targeting farm program payments to family farms: (testimony), D157 [17MR]

Trade and International Economic Policy Reform Act (H.R. 3) (testimony), D214 [31MR]

Transactions involving the Wichita Farm Credit District and the Farm Credit System Capital Corp., D465 [25JN]

U.S. poultry inspection program: (testimony), D392 [2JN]

Uniform Cotton Classing Fees Act (H.R. 2971): (testimony), D531 [21JY]

Water quality and agriculture production, D757 [27OC]

Welfare reform issues involving the Food Stamp Program (testimony), D315 [5MY]

Wheat program announcement for 1988 and loan rates for 1987 wheat crop: (testimony), D508 [13JY]

Meetings

Acreage diversion pilot program applicable to the Wheat Program for certain crops(H.R. 1157), D79 [24FE], D130 [10MR]

Agricultural Commodity Distribution Act (H.R. 1340), D247 [8AP], D392 [2JN]

Authorize the water resources research activities of the U.S. Geological Survey (H.R. 791), D643 [23SE], D669 [30SE]

Budget reconciliation recommendations, D715 [14OC]

charitable donations and payments for blood contributed excluded from income for purposes of the Food Stamp Program and the AFDC program (H.R. 3435), D747 [22OC]

Convey certain national forest lands to Unicoi County, TN (H.R. 1004), release reversionary interest in certain land located in Putnam County, FL (H.R. 1205), D187 [24MR]

Cotton Research and Promotion Act (H.R. 1622), D392 [2JN]

Credit assistance to farmers to strengthen the Farm Credit System (H.R. 3030), D558 [29JY], D565 [30JY], D573 [3AU], D579 [4AU], D586 [5AU]

Expand and improve the optional acreage diversion program for the wheat crop (H.R. 3093), D585 [5AU]

Extend for one year the term of the Scientific Advisory Panel of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (H.R. 3108), D643 [23SE], D669 [30SE]

Extend the authorization of the Renewable Resources Extension Act (H.R. 2401), D537 [22JY], D544 [23JY]

Farm Program Payment Integrity Act (H.R. 3487), D724 [15OC]

Federal Land Exchange Facilitation Act (H.R. 1860), D763 [28OC]

Financial protection to poultry growers and sellers, and to clarify Federal jurisdiction (H.R. 3457), D724 [15OC]

Food Security Act amendment (H.R. 3494), D724 [15OC]

Food Security Improvement Act (H.R. 625), D278 [23AP], D392 [2JN]

Food Stamp Family Welfare Reform Act (H.R. 3337), D614 [15SE], D724 [15OC]

Food Assistance to the Homeless Act amendment (H.R. 177), D79 [24FE], D84 [25FE]

Food Security Act amendment (H.R. 1123), D84 [25FE]

Lower Des Plaines Watershed, IL, D392 [2JN]

Mark O. Hatfield National Forage Seed Production Research Center (H.R. 811), D544 [23JY]

Michigan Wilderness Heritage Act (H.R. 148), D187 [24MR], D219 [1AP]

Montana Natural Resources and Utilization Act (H.R. 2090), D624 [16SE], D643 [23SE]

National forest lands conveyed to Unicoi County, TN (H.R. 1004), D219 [1AP]

100th anniversary of the enactment of the Hatch Act and its role in establishing our Nation's system of State agricultural experiment stations, ordered reported H.J. Res. 3, D46 [3FE]

Organization, D47 [3FE]

Pizza labeling legislation, D724 [15OC]

Plant stress and water conservation research laboratory and program in Lubbock, TX (H.R. 2663), D544 [23JY]

Recognizing the importance of the agricultural export enhancement program (H. Con. Res. 164), D544 [23JY]

Reconciliation recommendations pursuant to the concurrent budget resolution, D724 [15OC], D756 [27OC]

Reduction in net expenditures for milk price support activities required by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act (H.R. 3344), D724 [15OC]

Research on decline in U.S. forest productivity and determine effects of atmospheric pollutants on forest environment (H.R. 2399), D537 [22JY], D544 [23JY]

———(testimony), D410 [9JN]

Reversionary interest in land located in Putnam County, FL, and convey mineral interests of the U.S. in such land to Florida (H.R. 1205), D219 [1AP]

Rural Crisis Intervention Program (H.R. 3492), D724 [15OC][31MR], D219 [1AP]

Uniform Cotton Classing Fees Act (H.R. 2971), D544 [23JY]

Urging the President to make the development of agricultural markets in developing countries a high priority (H. Con. Res. 151), D544 [23JY]

Use of program crop acreage for creating wildlife habitats, feeding areas, and sanctuaries by protecting farm program crop base acreage and program payment yields (H.R. 2752), D724 [15OC]

Remarks in House

Agriculture Credit Act: extension of time to file report (H.R. 3030), 36120 [17DE]

Meetings: during sessions, 27961 [15OC]

Putnam County, FL: permission to file report on H.R. 1205, 9615 [23AP]

Reports: permission to file, 3514 [19FE], 4154 [26FE], 23061 [7AU], 25713 [30SE]

Resignation: Representative Robert L. Thomas, 28613 [21OC]

Reports

Foreign Travel Expenditures, 5092 [9MR], 12417 [14MY], 33055 [20NO]

Reports filed

Activities (H. Rept. 99-1040), 104 [6JA]

Cotton Producers Participation in Measures To Defray Costs of Cotton Research and Promotion Program: Committee on Agriculture (H.R. 1622) (H. Rept. 100-339), 26400 [5OC]

Dept. of Agriculture Recovery of Costs Associated With Cotton Classing Services (H.R. 2971) (H. Rept. 100-242), 21185 [27JY]

Emergency Assistance for the Homeless (H.R. 177) (H. Rept. 100-8), 4449 [2MR]

Enhancing U.S. Competitiveness (H.R. 3) (H. Rept. 100-40), 8121 [7AP]

Establishment of Plant Stress and Water Conservation Research Laboratory and Program in Lubbock, TX (H.R. 2663) (H. Rept. 100-240), 21185 [27JY]

Exclude Charitable Donations and Payments for Blood Donated, From Income Provisions of Certain Programs: (H.R. 3435) (H. Rept. 100-478), 35575 [14DE]

Extend Required Date for Submission of National Commission on Dairy Policy Report (H.R. 1123) (H. Rept. 100-9), 4449 [2MR]

Federal Land Exchange Facilitation Act: (H.R. 1860) (H. Rept. 100-165), 35575 [14DE]

Food Security Act (H.R. 3494) (H. Rept. 100-497), 37626 [21DE]

Food Stamp Program Reform (H.R. 3337) (H. Rept. 100-396), 29209 [26OC]

Michigan Wilderness Designation (H.R. 148) (H. Rept. 100-29), 8121 [7AP]

Milk Price Support Activities Expenditure Reduction (H.R. 3344) (H. Rept. 100-496), 37626 [21DE]

Protection of Poultry Growers and Sellers (H.R. 3457) (H. Rept. 100-397), 29306 [27OC]

Renewable Resources Extension Act (H.R. 2401) (H. Rept. 100-239), 21185 [27JY]

Report (H. Rept. 100-310), 24677 [21SE]

Research on Decline in U.S. Forest Productivity and Effects of Atmospheric Pollutants (H.R. 2399) (H. Rept. 100-241), 21185 [27JY]

Rural Crisis Recovery Program (H.R. 3492) (H. Rept. 100-379), 28346 [19OC]

Unicoi County, TN, Land Conveyance (H.R. 1004) (H. Rept. 100-87), 11864 [8MY]

U.S. Livestock Insects Laboratory, Kerrville, TX, as Knipling-Bushland Research Laboratory: (H.R. 3712) (H. Rept. 100-477), 35575 [14DE]

Water Resources Development Research Activities of Geological Survey (H.R. 791) (H. Rept. 100-155), 25748 [30SE]

West Virginia and Virginia Wilderness Areas: (H.R. 2878) (H. Rept. 100-367), 27715 [13OC]

Rules

Procedure, 3453-3457 [18FE]

Statements

Farm Credit System Reform: Representative Virginia Smith, 21791 [30JY]

Texts of

H. Res. 39, appointment of members to committee, 983 [8JA]