COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, NUTRITION, AND FORESTRY (Senate)

Appointments

Lugar, Senator: ranking member, 1438 [20JA]

Bills and resolutions

Appointments: majority members (see S. Res. 212)

———minority members (see S. Res. 213)

Appropriations: increase amount allocated by S. Res. 80 (see S. Res. 304)

Breaux, Senator: appointment (see S. Res. 212)

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

Karnes, Senator: appointment (see S. Res. 213)

Hearings

Agricultural exports: (testimony from Allan I. Mendelowitz, Orville Freeman, Dean Kleckner, Bart C. Fisher, C. Manly Molpus, and William K. Quarles), D143 [12MR]

Authorizing funds for the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (S. 1516): (testimony), D561 [30JY]

CFTC activities focusing on off-exchange instruments, regulation of foreign futures, options, and program trading: (testimony), D516 [15JY]

Farmers Home Administration loan programs (testimony from Hubert H. Humphrey III, Nicholas J. Spaeth, Roger Tellinghuisen, Robert M. Spire, and Eugene Severens), D136 [11MR]

———(testimony from Jim Massey, Alan Bergman, and Carl Limvere), D136 [11MR]

———(testimony from Vance L. Clark, Brian P. Crowley, Jim Yeager, John Wanska, Ron Albee, Frank Kirschenheiter, and Diane Thomas), D136 [11MR]

Current status of market orientation and farm program outlays: (testimony), D370 [21MY]

Economic problems of rural communities: (testimony), D313 [5MY]

Establish agricultural assistance and trade missions (S. 659), D162 [18MR]

———(testimony from Orville Freeman, Charles Sykes, Peggy Sheehan, Carl Schwensen, and LaVern A. Freeh), D127 [10MR]

Extend date for report required by National Commission on Dairy Policy, D108 [4MR]

Farm Credit Act (S. 1665), D641 [23SE]

Farm Credit Capital Corp. (testimony), D409 [9JN]

Farm credit system (testimony), D197 [26MR]

———(testimony from Eugene Severens, Sam Eberly, Larry Buegler, and Luman W. Holman), D90 [26FE]

———(testimony from Senator Grassley, Frank Naylor, James R. Billington, Marvin R. Duncan, Wayne Rasmussen, Dean Kleckner, David Senter, Grant Buntrock, Leroy Watson, Ray Hankes, H.B. Beasley, Jack Kelsey, and Ron Voth), D90 [26FE]

Farmers Home Administration loan programs: (testimony from Hubert H. Humphrey III, Nicholas J. Spaeth, Roger Tellinghuisen, Robert M. Spire, and Eugene Severens), D136 [11MR]

———(testimony from Jim Massey, Alan Bergman, and Carl Limvere), D136 [11MR]

———(testimony from Vance L. Clark, Brian P. Crowley, Jim Yeager, John Wanska, Ron Albee, Frank Kirschenheiter, and Diane Thomas), D136 [11MR]

Food Security Act: (testimony), D162 [18MR]

Food-borne illness and deaths in U.S.: (testimony), D399 [4JN]

Groundwater contamination from agricultural application of pesticides (testimony), D293 [29AP]

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

Improve the commodity distribution program and to extend the eligibility of school districts to receive assistance for school lunch programs: (testimony), D357 [19MY]

Limitation on direct price support payments: (testimony), D528 [21JY]

Management of inventory properties held by agricultural lenders: (testimony), D576 [4AU]

New uses for farm and forest products: (testimony), D469 [26JN]

Nomination of Roland R. Vautour to be Under Sec. of Agriculture for Small Community and Rural Development and to the Board of Directors of the CCC: (testimony), D812 [16NO]

Nominations, D477 [30JN]

Nutrition of the homeless: (S. 728, 812) (testimony), D225 [2AP]

Payment-in-kind certificates (testimony), D197 [26MR]

Pesticide contamination in groundwater: (testimony), D363 [20MY]

Potential effects of the drawback extension on the sugar program: (testimony), D812 [16NO]

President's proposed budget request for Dept. of Agriculture: (testimony from Richard E. Lyng, Sec. of Agriculture, Peter C. Myers, and Stephen B. Dewhurst), D49 [4FE]

Promote export of U.S. agricultural commodities (testimony from Senators Baucus and Grassley, Thomas O. Kay, Steve McCoy, Vernon Scott, Robert M. Bor, Alex Curtis, and LaVern A. Freeh), D127 [10MR]

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

Reform and modernize the Farmers Home Administration (S. 1179): (testimony), D409 [9JN]

Research program funds for the modification of plants to develop new marketable industrial and commercial products (S. 970): (testimony), D352 [15MY], D890 [15DE]

Watershed plan for the Lower Des Plaines Tributaries, IL: (testimony), D431 [17JN]

Rules of procedure, D108 [4MR]

Rural problems and rural revitalization in the U.S.: (testimony), D236 [7AP]

Status of special supplemental for WIC program: (testimony), D417 [11JN]

Status of the farm program: (testimony), D438 [18JN], D450 [23JN], D462 [25JN]

Status of U.S. foreign food assistance programs in relation to agricultural trade (testimony from Thomas O. Kay, George Pope, Mary Chambliss and Duane Acker), D54 [5FE]

Use and regulation of biotechnology in agriculture focusing on competitiveness, research, patent and regulatory issues: (testimony), D784 [4NO]

Letters

Appropriations: Senator Helms, 36539 [19DE]

Farmers Home Administration regulations, 7666 [1AP]

Meetings

Agricultural Competitiveness and Trade Act (S. 512), D319 [6MY], D325 [7MY], D349 [14MY]

Agricultural Interest Rate Relief Act (S. 57), D299 [30AP], D353 [15MY]

Commodity distribution program and extend the eligibility forms of assistance for school lunch program (S. 305), D462 [25JN], D484 [1JY]

Disaster payments to certain wheat producers (S. 341), D22 [21JA], D37 [29JA]

Emergency Food for the Homeless Act (S. 728), D232 [3AP]

Establish agricultural assistance and trade missions (S. 659), D191 [25MR]

Farm Credit Act (S. 1665), D659 [29SE], D667 [30SE], D673 [1OC], D681 [2OC], D688 [6OC], D694 [7OC], D701 [8OC], D713 [14OC], D732 [20OC], D739 [21OC], D744 [22OC], D774 [30OC], D784 [4NO]

Michigan Wilderness Heritage Act (H.R. 148), D732 [20OC]

Nomination of Ewen M. Wilson to be Assistant Sec. of Agriculture for Economics and a member of the Board of Directors of the CCC, D535 [22JY]

———of Milton J. Hertz to the Board of Directors of the CCC, D535 [22JY]

———of Roland R. Vautour to be Under Sec. of Agriculture for Small Community and Rural Development, and to the Board of Directors of the CCC, D827 [19NO]

Operating expenses (S. Res. 79), D22 [21JA]

Original resolution requesting supplemental funds in operation expenses for the committee, D753 [27OC]

Paid advertising for Florida-grown strawberries under marketing orders (S. 64), D484 [1JY]

Prevent borrower stock impairment and ensure that a borrower-owned and controlled Farm Credit System will provide credit to U.S. agriculture producers (S. 1665), D617 [16SE]

Reorganization and adoption of rules, D349 [14MY]

Research program funds for the modification of plants to develop new marketable industrial and commercial products (S. 970), D456 [24JN]

Rules of procedure, subcommittee assignments, and markup of S. 341, disaster payments to producers prevented from planting certain wheat crop

Setting forth the congressional budget for fiscal years 1988-90 (H. Con. Res. 93), D729 [19OC]

Subcommittee assignments, D37 [29JA]

Notices

Reports filed (see S. 410), 2320 [29JA], 5012 [6MR]

Remarks in Senate

Appointments: majority members (S. Res. 212), 11979 [12MY]

———minority members (S. Res. 213), 11979 [12MY]

Appropriations: increase amount allocated by S. Res. 80 (S. Res. 304), 35619 [15DE], 36537-36546 [19DE]

Expenditures: authorizing (S. Res. 79), 1659 [21JA]

Hearings: notices, 1358 [14JA], 2343 [29JA]

Karnes, Senator: tribute, 11980 [12MY]

Lugar, Senator: ranking member (S. Res. 72), 1460 [20JA]

Meetings: during sessions, 2933 [4FE], 4360 [26FE], 5177 [10MR], 5639 [12MR], 6122 [18MR], 7071 [26MR], 7854 [2AP], 12525 [14MY], 12621 [15MY], 12998 [19MY], 13606 [21MY], 14704 [4JN], 15095 [9JN], 17588 [25JN], 17865 [26JN], 18209 [30JN], 20077 [15JY], 20583 [21JY], 21769 [30JY], 24224 [16SE], 25029 [23SE], 25645 [29SE], 25894 [30SE], 26343 [2OC], 26585 [6OC], 26922 [7OC], 27821 [14OC], 28137 [15OC], 28293 [16OC], 28434 [20OC], 28752, 28753 [21OC], 28991 [22OC], 30364 [30OC], 30786 [4NO], 31543 [10NO], 32841 [19NO]

Notices of hearings, 1668 [21JA], 2343 [29JA], 3812 [19FE], 4638 [3MR], 5064 [6MR], 5639 [12MR], 6407 [19MR], 7192 [27MR], 7652 [1AP], 8878 [9AP], 9273 [22AP], 12022 [12MY], 13605 [21MY], 14369 [2JN], 15221 [10JN], 16669 [18JN], 17588 [25JN], 19260 [9JY], 20255 [17JY], 26185 [1OC], 27128 [8OC], 28136 [15OC], 29481 [27OC], 29657 [28OC], 31154 [5NO]

Subcommittee on Domestic and Foreign Marketing and Product Promotion: notices of hearings, 4360 [26FE]

Reports

Foreign Travel Expenditures, 7939 [3AP], 20232 [17JY], 32803 [19NO], 36192 [18DE]

Reports filed

Acreage Diversion Pilot Program Applicable to Wheat (H.R. 1157), 5723 [16MR]

Agricultural Foreign Aid and Trade Missions (S. 659) (S. Rept. 100-33), 7948 [3AP]

Alternative Agricultural Products Research Act: (S. 970) (S. Rept. 100-122), 20987 [23JY]

Designate Certain Public Lands in Michigan as Wilderness (H.R. 148) (S. Rept. 100-206), 28974 [22OC]

Emergency Food for the Homeless Act (S. 728), 7948 [3AP]

Expenditures (S. Res. 79), 1620 [21JA]

Farm Credit Act Amendment (S. 1665) (S. Rept. 100-230), 33121 [20NO]

Increasing Appropriations (S. Res. 304) (S. Rept. 100-208), 29442 [27OC]

National School Lunch Act (S. 305) (S. Rept. 100-127), 21249 [28JY]

Nomination of Roland R. Vautour, 32810 [19NO]

Nominations, 20633 [22JY]

Promotion of Agricultural Exports: Committee on Agriculture (S. 512) (S. Rept. 100-77), 16844 [19JN]

Resolutions by organizations

Tribute to Edward Zorinsky, 6486 [20MR]

Rules

Procedure, 5645 [12MR]

Summaries

Farmers Home Administration Regulations—Major Concerns Raised During Hearing Before Committee, 7666 [1AP]

Tables

Supplemental requests, 1987, 36544 [19DE]

Texts of

S. Res. 211, appointments, 12022 [12MY]

S. Res. 212, majority appointments, 12022 [12MY]

S. Res. 213, minority appointments, 12022 [12MY]

S. Res. 304, appropriations increase, 29458 [27OC], 36545 [19DE]