71st Congress |

1929 (1st Session) |
|

May 3 |
To Provide Further Relief for Farmers and Fruit Growers in Flood Stricken Areas, 24 Pp. (Not Printed) |

May 28 |
Mississippi River Flood Relief, 12 Pp. (Not Printed) |

1930 (2nd Session) |
|

Jan 31 |
To Abolish the Federal Farm Loan Board and Transfer Functions to the Federal Farm Board, 45 Pp. (Not Printed) |

Mar 4 |
For Purchase of Wheat or Flour for Relief of the Starving People of China, 12 Pp. (Not Printed) |

Mar 6 |
Chinese Famine Relief, 29 Pp. (Vol. 1) (Not Printed) |

Mar 12 |
Chinese Famine Relief, 70 Pp. (Vol. 2) (Not Printed) |

Mar 27 |
Superior National Forest, 15 Pp. (Not Printed) |

1931 (3rd Session) |
|

Jan 20 |
To Make Applicable in 1931 in the States of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida the Act of Congress Approved March 3, 1930, for Relief for Farmers in the Flood or Drought Stricken Areas, 16 Pp. (Not Printed) |

Jan 20 |
To Excuse Certain Persons From Residence Upon Homestead Lands During 1929 and 1930 in the Drought-Stricken areas, 7 Pp. (Not Printed) |

Jan 26 |
Organization of Agricultural Credit Corporation, 15 Pp. (Not Printed) |

Feb 14 |
Losses from Fruit Fly, 11 Pp. (Not Printed) |


79th Congress |

1945 (1st Session) |
|

Mar 26 |
[Food Supplies and Government Policies Investigation] Volume 1, (Not Printed) |

Mar 27 |
[Food Supplies and Government Policies Investigation] Volume 2, (Not Printed) |

Mar 28 |
[Food Supplies and Government Policies Investigation] Volume 3, (Not Printed) |

Apr 3 |
[Food Supplies and Government Policies Investigation] Volume 4 (Not Printed) |

Apr 4 |
[Food Supplies and Government Policies Investigation] Volume 5 (Not Printed) |

Apr 5 |
[Food Supplies and Government Policies Investigation] Volume 6 (Not Printed) |

Apr 12 |
[Food Supplies and Government Policies Investigation] Volume 9 (Not Printed) |

Apr 13 |
[Food Supplies and Government Policies Investigation] Volume 10 (Not Printed) |

Apr 17 |
[Food Supplies and Government Policies Investigation] Volume 12 (Not Printed) |

Apr 20 |
[Food Supplies and Government Policies Investigation] Volume 14 (Not Printed) |

Apr 22 |
[Food Supplies and Government Policies Investigation], 144 Pp. (Not Printed) |

Apr 25 |
[Food Supplies and Government Policies Investigation] Volume 17 (Not Printed) |

Apr 26 |
[Food Supplies and Government Policies Investigation] Volume 18 (Not Printed) |

Apr 27 |
[Food Supplies and Government Policies Investigation] Volume 19 (Not Printed) |

Jun 22 |
Nomination of John B. Hutson to be Under Secretary of Agriculture, Volume 1, 54 Pp. (Not Printed) |

Jun 23 |
Nomination of John B. Hutson to be Under Secretary of Agriculture, Volume 2, 84 Pp. (Not Printed) |

Sep 21 |
[Surplus Construction Machinery for Soil and Water Conservation] 50 Pp. (Not Printed) |

Oct 11 |
[Food Supplies and Government Policies Investigation] Volume 20 (Not Printed) |

Oct 12 |
[Food Supplies and Government Policies Investigation] Volume 21 (Not Printed) |

Oct 24 |
[Food Supplies and Government Policies Investigation] Volume 19 (Not Printed) |

Oct 30 |
[Disposal of Surplus Agricultural Commodities] Volume 1, (not Printed) |

Nov 7 |
[Disposal of Surplus Agricultural Commodities] Volume 2, (Not Printed) |

Dec 7 |
[Food Supplies and Government Policies Investigation] Volume 17 (Not Printed) |

Dec 8 |
[Food Supplies and Government Policies Investigation] Volume 18 (Not Printed) |

1946 (2nd Session) |
|

Jan 17 |
Missouri Valley Authority Act, 13 Pp. (Not Printed) |

Feb 1 |
[Tobacco Acreage Allotments] 83 Pp. (Not Printed) |

Feb 1 |
[Industrial Use of Surplus Agricultural Commodities] 32 Pp. (Not Printed) |

Mar 19 |
An Act to Adapt the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act to the Needs of Veterans and Low Income Farmers, 31 Pp. (Not Printed) |

Mar 20 |
[Farm Parity Law Revisions and Price Control Extension] 84 Pp. (Not Printed) |

Apr 2 |
[Consolidation of Agricultural Credit Agencies] 36 Pp. (Not Printed) |

May 6 |
[Consolidation of Agricultural Credit Agencies] Volume 1, (Not Printed) |

May 7 & 8 |
[Consolidation of Agricultural Credit Agencies] Volume 2, (Not Printed) |

May 9 |
[Consolidation of Agricultural Credit Agencies] Volume 3, (Not Printed) |

May 10 |
[Consolidation of Agricultural Credit Agencies] Volume 4, (Not Printed) |

May 14 |
[Industrial Use of Surplus Agricultural Commodities] 120 Pp. (Not Printed) |

June 19 |
[To Abolish the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge in Essex County, Massachusetts] 11 Pp. (Not Printed) |

Jul 19 |
[Conservation of Wildlife in Federal Water Projects, 60 Pp. (Not Printed) |

Jul 19 |
[Agricultural Marketing Research and Services Programs] Volume 1, 22 Pp. (Not Printed) |

Jul 25 |
[Agricultural Marketing Research and Services Programs] Volume 2, 84 Pp. (Not Printed) |

Jul 30 |
Cotton, 104 Pp. (Not Printed) |


80th Congress |

1947 (1st Session) |
|

Jan 23 |
To Establish a Farm Price Support Program |

Feb 10-12 |
Foot-and-Mouth Disease in Mexico (Not Printed) |

Feb 15 |
Nomination of Dillard B. Lasseter to be Administrator, Farm Home Administration (Not Printed) |

Feb 24, 26-27, & Mar 5 |
To Continue the Commodity Credit Corporation |

Mar 7-8, & 12 |
Farm Labor Supply Program |

Mar 21 |
Extension of Authority under Second War Powers Act, (Not Printed) |

Mar 26-29, 31, & Apr 1 |
Price Support Program for Wool |

May 12-15 |
Land Bank Commissioner Loans |

May 21 |
Contributions from Foreign Governments for Graduate School U.S. Department of Agriculture (Not Printed) |

May 24 |
To Regulate the Marketing of Economic Poisons and Devices (Not Printed) |

May 26-29, Jun 2-4, & 24-27 |
National Fertilizer Program |

Jun 12-13 |
Eradication of Cattle Grubs |

Jun 17-19 |
Permanent Farm Labor Program |

Jun 20 |
Federal Crop Insurance |

Jul 2 |
Nomination of James E. Wells, Jr. to be Cooperative Bank Commissioner, Farm Credit Administration (Not Printed) |

Oct 6-8 |
Long-Range Agricultural Policy |

Oct 9-10, 20-25, 27-28, Nov 3-5, 7-8, 10, 19-21, & Dec 11 |
Long-Range Agricultural Policy and Programs |

Nov 25 |
Emergency Food Situation (Not Printed) |

Dec 17 |
Loans to Fur Farmers (Not Printed) |

1948 (2nd Congress) |
|

Jan 14 |
Government-Owned Industrial Alcohol Plants |

Jan 19-21, & Mar 15-16 |
Commodity Credit Corporation Charter |

Feb 5 |
Research on Foot-and-Mouth Disease |

Feb 11-12, 16-17 |
Margin Requirements on Commodity Exchanges |

Mar 8-12 |
Marketing Agreements and Orders |

Mar 17-18 & 24 |
To Make Virginia Fire-Cured Tobacco, Type 21, a Separate Kind of Tobacco (Not Printed) |

Mar 25, & 30-31 |
Revolving Fund for the Purchase of Agricultural Commodities |

Mar 31 |
Meat-Inspection Service of the Department of Agriculture (Not Printed) |

Apr 12-17, & 19-24 |
Agricultural Act of 1948 |

May 5-6, & 9 |
Banks for Cooperatives |

May 27 |
Nomination of Charles Franklin Brannan to be Secretary of Agriculture (Not Printed) |

Jun 4 |
To Amend the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act (Not Printed) |

Sep 20-24 |
Problems of the Citrus Fruit Industry |


81st Congress |

1949 (1st Session) |
|

Feb 16-18, & 23-24 |
Amend CCC, Storage Facilities, etc |

Mar 9 |
Remount Station, Pomona, Cal., Etc. (Not Printed) |

Feb 8-10 |
Investigate Matters Re Farm Program etc (ECA Purchase Program) |

Feb 4 |
Cotton Acreage Allotments for 1949 (Not Printed) |

Feb 24 |
Disaster Loans (Not Printed) |

Apr 27- Nov 30
Various dates |
Utilization of Farm Crops
- Corn
- Industrial Alcohol
- Fats and Oils
- Price Spreads
- Price Spreads - Coffee
- Milk and Dairy Products
- Price Spreads - Meat
|

May 17 |
Amend Peanut Marketing Quotas (Not Printed) |

May 25, & 31 |
Forestry Bills |

Jun 8 |
Swan Island Quarantine (Not Printed) |

Jun 11, Aug 3-5, & 8-10 |
Rural Telephone Bills |

Jun 14-15, 22, & 27 |
Cotton Marketing Quotas and Allotments |

Jun 17-18, & Jul 6 |
Price Support for Hogs |

Jul 7-11-15, & 18-19 |
Brannan Farm Plan |

Aug 22-25 |
Stabilize Prices of Agricultural Commodities |

Sep 15, & 19-20 |
Repeal Price-Support Provisions on Irish Potatoes and Eggs |

1950 (2nd Session) |
|

Jan 16 |
Butter (Not Printed) |

Jan 19, & Aug 23 |
Secretary of Agriculture Convey Certain Mineral Interests (Not Printed) |

Jan 24-25, Feb 13-17, & Mar 15-17 |
CCC, Increase the Borrowing Power |

Jan 31 |
Potatoes (Not Printed) |

Feb 2, & 6-7 |
Cotton and Peanut Acreage Allotments |

Feb 3 |
Nomination of CCC Board of Directors |

Mar 15-17, & 20-21 |
Price Support for Potatoes, Amend AAA-38 |

Mar 23 |
Tobacco-re Cigar Wrapper Type 61-62 |

Apr 28 |
Technical Services for Private-Forestry Landowners |

May 13 |
Cancellation of Feed and Seed Loans (Not Printed) |

May 25 & 26 |
Interstate Movement of Cattle Reacting to Tests for Brucellosis (Not Printed) |

May 26 |
Importation of Pork Products from Non-ECA Countries (Not Printed) |

Jun 19 |
Agricultural Program for the Virgin Islands (Not Printed) |

Jun 20 |
Report of Subcommittee on Coffee Prices |

Aug 8-11 |
Cotton and Peanut Acreage Allotments |

Sep 20 |
Establish Additional Office, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture (Not Printed) |

Sep 21 & 22 |
International Wheat Agreement |

1951 (2nd Session) |
|

Jan 2 |
Foot-and-Mouth Disease in Mexico (Not Printed) |


83rd Congress |

1953 (1st Session) |
|

Jan 15 |
Ezra Taft Benson, Secretary of Agriculture-Designate |

Jan 27 |
Nominations of True D. Morse, of Missouri to be Under-Secretary of Agriculture, and J. Earl Coke of California to be Assistant Secretary of Agriculture |

Jan 29, May 13, 15, Oct 8-9, & 13-14 |
Importation of Wheat Classified as "Wheat, unfit for Human Consumption" under Tariff Act of 1930 (2 Volumes) |

Feb 2 |
Nominations to the Board of Directors, Commodity Credit Corporation |

Feb 4 |
General Farm Situation |

Feb 23 |
Commodity Inventories of the Commodity Credit Corporation |

Mar 10 & 11 |
Grain Sanitation Program of the Food and Drug Administration |

Mar 23 & 24 |
Extension of Mexican Farm Labor Program |

Mar 23 |
Policies and Programs of the Department of Agriculture |

Apr 7 |
Nomination of Ancher Nelson of Minnesota to be Administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration |

Apr 9-10, 14-17, 20-22, & 27 |
Foreign Trade in Agricultural Products: General (Part 1) |

Apr 23, & May 8 |
Foreign Trade in Agricultural Products: Grains (Part 2) |

Apr 24, 30, May 1, 6, & 8 |
Foreign Trade in Agricultural Products: Cotton, Livestock and Wool (Part 3) |

Apr 28 |
Appropriations for Cooperative Agricultural Extension Work |

May 2 |
Agricultural Imports at Parity Prices (Not Printed) |

May 4-6 |
Foreign Trade in Agricultural Products: Dairy (Part 4) |

May 11-12, & 26 |
Farm Credit Act of 1953 |

May 14, 18-19, & Jun 15 |
Foreign Trade in Agricultural Products: Fruits and Vegetables, Fats and Oils, and Tobacco (Part 5) |

Jun 12 |
Wheat for Pakistan |

Jun 25 & 26 |
Wheat Acreage Allotments |

Jun 29 |
Nomination of Robert B. McLeaish, of Texas, to be Administrator of the Farmer's Home Administration (Not Printed) |

Jun 30, Jul 1, 10-11 |
Cotton Acreage Allotments |

Jul 15 |
Nomination of John H. Davis and Romeo E. Short to be Assistant Secretaries of Agriculture, and Carl Raymond Arnold to be Governor of the Farm Credit Administration (Not Printed) |

Jul 16 |
Relief of Famine in Foreign Countries |

Sep 11, 15, & 17 |
Grazing Policies and Range Improvements in the National Forests |

1954 (2nd Session) |
|

Jan 13 |
Nomination of the Members of the Federal Farm Credit Board, Farm Credit Administration, and Ross Rizley, of Oklahoma, to be Assistant Secretary of Agriculture (Not Printed) |

Jan 14-15, & Feb 15 |
Cooperative Soil Conservation and Flood Prevention Projects |

Jan 18 & 19 |
Agricultural Outlook and the President's Farm Program |

Jan 21 & 22 |
Administration of the National Forests |

Jan 25 |
Borrowing Power of the Commodity Credit Corporation |

Feb 2 |
Regulation of Coffee Futures Trading |

Feb 2, & May 10 |
Investigation of Price Spreads (Executive Session, Confidential) |

Feb 19 |
Wool Program |

Mar 4-5, 9-12, 15-17, 22, 24, & 26 |
General Farm Program (Part 1) |

Mar 23 |
Emergency Assistance to Drought Areas |

Mar 29, 31, Apr 1-2, 5-7, 9, 12, 14, & 20-21 |
General Farm Program (Part 2) |

Apr 23 |
Emergency Loans for Farmers |

May 5 |
Extension of Water Facilities Act |

Jun 8 |
Diverted Acreage Program (Executive Session, Confidential) |

Dec 2 & 3 |
Price Spreads on Poultry and Eggs |


84th Congress |

1955 (1st Session) |
|

Jan 19 |
1955 General Farm Situation and Exporting of Surplus Agricultural Commodities |

Jan 21 |
Durum Wheat Acreage Allotments |

Feb 7, & 22 |
Export of Privately Owned Commodities under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (Executive Session, Not Printed) |

Feb, 25, 28, Mar 1-4 |
Disposal of Agricultural Surpluses, Cotton (Part 1) |

Mar 3, 10, & 14 |
Tobacco |

Mar 5, & 7 |
Additional 1955 Cotton Acreage Allotments |

Mar 9-11, 14-15, 17, 21, 25, 28, Apr 1, May 24, & Jun 2 |
Disposal of Agricultural Surpluses, General (Part 2) |

Mar 23 |
Acreage Allotments and Conservation Payments |

Mar 23 |
Allocation of REA Funds |

Apr 28 |
Federal Crop Insurance |

May 2 |
Purchasers of Fungible Goods |

May 6 |
Interest Rate on Disaster Loans |

May 12 |
Processing of Commodity Credit Corporation Commodities |

May 19 & 20 |
Farm Credit Act of 1955 |

May 23-26 |
Rice Programs |

Jun 1, 3, 7, 9, 16-17, 21-24, 30, & Jul 1 |
Price Support Program, (Part 1) |

Jun 13-14, Nov 14-15, & Jun 11-12, 1956 |
Administration of Farm Programs by Farmer Committees |

Jun 30 |
Disposal of Agricultural Surpluses, General (Executive Session, Printed) |

Jul 25 |
Farm Credit Act of 1955 (Executive Session, Not Printed) |

Jul 28 |
Cotton Acreage Allotments for Small Farms (Executive Session, Printed) |

Jul 28 |
Rice Acreage Allotments (Executive Session, Not Printed) |

Jul 28 |
Borrowing Power of the Commodity Credit Corporation (Executive Session, Not Printed) |

Oct 24-26 |
Price Support Program (Held in St. Paul, Minnesota, Worthington, Minnesota, and Des Moines, Iowa) (Part 2) |

Oct 27-28, & 31 |
Price Support Program (Held in Brookings, South Dakota, Minot, North Dakota, and Pendleton, Oregon) (Part 3) |

Nov 2, & 4-5 |
Price Support Program (Held in Fresno, California, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Fort Worth, Texas) (Part 4) |

Nov 7-10 |
Price Support Program (Held in Hutchinson, Kansas, Stillwater, Oklahoma, and Alexandria, Louisiana (Part 5) |

Nov 12, & 14-15 |
Price Support Program (Held in Macon, Georgia, Columbia, South Carolina, and Raleigh, North Carolina) (Part 6) |

Nov 18 & 19 |
Price Support Program (Held in Montpelier, Vermont, and Utica, New York) (Part 7) |

1956 (2nd Session) |
|

Jan 12, 17-21, & 23 |
Price Support Program (Part 8) |

Feb 7 |
Tobacco Acreage Allotments (Not Printed) |

Apr 19 |
Price Support Program (Part 9) |

Apr 23 & 24 |
Farm Credit Act of 1956 |

May 1-3 |
Processed Tobacco (Not Printed) |

May 7, & 29 |
Watershed Projects |

May 8, 17, & 24 |
Farmers' Home Administration Operating and Housing Loans |

May 9 & 10 |
Humane Slaughtering of Livestock and Poultry |

Jun 18-19, & 26 |
Compulsory Inspection of Poultry and Poultry Products |

Jun 20 |
Increase in Borrowing Power of the Commodity Credit Corporation (Executive Session, Not Printed) |

Jun 20 |
Foreign Sales and Barter of Surplus Agricultural Commodities (Executive Session, Not Printed) |

Jun 20 |
Nominations of Glen A. Boger and David A. Hamil |

Jun 25 |
Regulation of Livestock Auction Markets (Not Printed) |

Jun 26 |
Mandatory Checkoffs for Beef Promotion Program (Not Printed) |

Jul 6 |
Industrial Uses of Agricultural Products |

Jul 16 |
Sale of Surplus Cotton to Domestic Mills |


85th Congress |

1957 (1st Session) |
|

Jan. 25 |
Durum Wheat Acreage Allotments for 1957 |

Jan. 29 & Feb. 6 |
Agricultural Situation and Farm Programs |

Feb. 27 & Feb. 28 |
Poultry Products Inspection Act |

Mar. 1 |
Tobacco Support Price Adjustments |

Mar. 4 |
Corn Program |

Mar. 18 & 19 |
Drought Disaster Relief |

Mar. 21 |
Extension of Public Law 480 |

Mar. 25-27, & Apr. 1-3 |
Tobacco Poundage-Acreage Allotments |

Apr. 2 |
Meat Promotion Program (Not Printed) |

Apr. 29 |
Cranberry Marketing Orders |

May 8 |
Transfer of Wheat Acreage Allotments |

May 15 |
Farm Program |

May 21 & 22 |
National Potato Grade Labeling Act |

Jun 11-12, 20-21, Jun 26-28 & Jul 16, 18-19 |
Policies and Operations Under Public Law 480 |

Mar. 12, & Jun 24-25 |
Cotton Programs |

Jul 8-9, 16 & 18 |
Relief from CCC Claims (Not Printed) |

Jul 20 & Aug 6 |
Nomination of Don Paarlberg |

Aug 12, 1957, Mar 20-21, & 24-26, 1958 |
Onion Futures Trading |

1958 (2nd Session) |
|

Jan 17 & 27 |
Farm Program: General (Part 1) |

Feb 17 & 18 |
Farm Program: Cotton (Part 2) |

Feb 20 & 21 |
Farm Program: Corn and Feed Grains (Part 3) |

Feb 24 & 25 |
Farm Program: Milk and Dairy Products (Part 4) |

Feb 27 & 28 |
Farm Program: Wheat (Part 5) |

Mar 3 & 4 |
Farm Program: Rice and other Commodities (Part 6) |

Jan 23 & 27 |
Loans in Disaster Areas (Not Printed) |

Jan 29 |
Cotton Situation (Not Printed) |

Feb 5 & 11 |
Public Law 480 Extension |

Feb 6 & 7 |
Extension of the National Wool Act |

Apr 16 & Jun 9 |
Meat Promotion Program |

Apr 17 |
Regulation of the Meat Industry (Executive Session) |

Apr 28-30 & May 1 |
Humane Slaughtering of Livestock |

May 26-29 |
Long-Range Farm Program: Corn and Feed Grains, Cotton, Wheat and Rice (Part 1) |

Jun 2 & 3 |
Long-Range Farm Program: Dairy Self-Help Programs (Part 2) |

Jun 4 |
Long-Range Farm Program: Increased Industrial Uses of Agricultural Commodities (Part 3) |

Jun 5 |
Long-Range Farm Program: All Commodities (Part 4) |

Jul 10 & 11 |
National Turkey Marketing Act |

Jul 14 |
Dairy Export Program |

Jul 22 & 23 |
Importation of Wild Animals |

Dec 16 |
Marketing of Loose and Tied Tobacco |


86th Congress |

1959 (1st Session) |
|

Feb 16 & 17 |
President's Farm Message |

Feb 24 |
Leasing of Acreage Allotments |

Mar 5 & 6 |
Rural Electrification Administration and Loans |

Mar 19 |
Production of Durum Wheat |

Mar 20, 23-25 & Apr 22 |
Wheat Programs |

Apr 8 & 20 |
Farm Credit Administration |

Apr 16 |
Peanut Programs |

Apr 24 |
Enrichment of School Lunch Foods |

May 21 |
Conveyance of real property to Sophronia Smiley Delaney and Her Sons |

May 21 |
Protection Against Livestock and Poultry Diseases |

May 21 |
Relief of the Heirs of J. B. White |

Jun 4-5 & 8 |
Food Distribution Programs |

Aug 13-14 & 17 |
Farmer Cooperatives |

Dec 10 |
1960 Cotton Program |

1960 (2nd Session) |
|

Jan 12-14, Mar 9, 11, 14, 23, Apr 28, May 12, 17, & 26 |
Investigation of Grain Storage Operations of the Commodity Credit Corporation (Jan 13, Mar 9, and Mar 14 hearings of the Committee were held in Executive Session). |

Jan 22 |
Special School Milk Program |

Feb 3, & Apr 20-21 |
Wheat Act of 1960 |

Feb 25 & 26 |
National Poultry Stabilization Act |

Apr 7 |
Board of Directors, Central Bank for Cooperatives |

May 10 |
Farmers Home Administration Loans |

May 19 & 20 |
Dairy Price Supports |

May 27 |
Rights-of-Way in National Forests |


87th Congress |

1961 (1st Session) |
|

Jan 13 |
Hon. Orville L. Freeman, Sec. Of Ag.-Designate |

Feb 15 |
Nominations of John P. Duncan and Frank J. Welsh |

Feb 23 |
Special Feed Grain Program for 1961 |

Mar 1 |
Nomination of Norman M. Clapp |

Mar 15 |
Nominations of Charles S. Murphy and James T. Ralph |

Mar 24 |
Sale of Surplus Agricultural Commodities for Foreign Currencies |

Mar 28 |
Nominations to the Board of Directors, Commodity Credit Corporation, and General Council, Department of Agriculture |

Apr 19 |
Nominations of Howard Bertsch, Julian B. Thayer and Joe B. Zeug |

May 3-5, 8-12, 15-19, 22-25, & Jun 1-2, & 5 |
Agricultural Act of 1961 |

Jun 6, 9 & 14 |
Farm Loan System Regulated by the Farm Credit System |

Jun 12 & 13 |
Extension of Mexican Farm Labor Program |

Jun 19 |
Harvesting of Hay on Conservation Reserve Acreage (Not Printed) |

Jul 26 |
Eradication of Hog Cholera |

Aug 8 |
Marketing of Perishable Agricultural Commodities |

Sep 5 |
Watershed Projects |

1962 (2nd Session) |
|

Feb 19-23, & 26-28 |
Food and Agriculture Act of 1962 |

Mar 1 |
1962 Dairy Price Supports |

Mar 5 |
Seven Watershed Projects Submitted Sept. 20, 1961 (Not Printed) |

May 15 |
Napa River, CA, and Saltlick Creek, WV, Watershed Projects |

Jun 19 |
National School Lunch Funds |

Jun 26 |
Bonding of Meat Packers |

Jun 28 |
Government Stocks of Extra Long Staple Cotton |

Jun 29 |
Rural Telephone Service |

July 9 |
Emergency Loans to Oyster Planters |

Aug 10 |
Agricultural Land Development in Alaska |

Sep 19 |
State Agricultural Experiment Station Facilities |


89th Congress |

1965 (1st Session) |
|

Jan 15 & 16 |
Importation of Foreign Agricultural Workers |

Feb 9 & 10 |
Acreage-Poundage Marketing Quotas for Tobacco |

Mar 31 |
Flood Water Detention Capacity of Watershed Project Structures |

Apr 1 |
Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area |

May 5 |
Deferment of Principal and Interest Payments on Emergency Loans |

May 5 |
Federal Intermediate Credit Banks |

May 6 |
Farmers Home Administration Loans on Leased Lands |

May 6 |
Insured Farm Loans |

Jun 16-18, 21-22, |
Food and Agriculture Act of 1965 (Part 1) |

Jun 23-26, 28-29, & Jul 15 |
Food and Agriculture Act of 1965 (Part 2) |

Jun 18 |
Water Supply Systems and Insured Farm Loans |

Sep 9 |
Expansion of Beef Exports |

1966 (2nd Session) |
|

Jan 25 |
Economic Disaster Loans |

Feb 1 & 2 |
Minimum Resale Price of Commodity Credit Corporation Wheat |

Feb 3 & 4 |
Egg Marketing Orders |

Feb 24 |
Simplification of Farm Credit Administration Laws |

Mar 2-4, 7-8, & Jun 15 |
Food for Freedom Program and Commodity Reserves |

Mar 9-11 |
Community Development District Act of 1966 |

Apr 5 |
Emergency Food Relief for India |

Apr 25 & 26 |
Cotton Research and Promotion Act |

May 12 |
Special School Milk Program |

Jun 14-16, & Sep 28 |
Discrimination Against Members of Farmer Cooperatives |

Jun 21 |
School Milk and School Breakfast Programs |

Jun 23 |
Eradication of Screw-Worms in Mexico |

Aug 15-19 |
Supplemental Financing of REA Programs |

Oct 11 |
Classification of Department of Agriculture Budget |

Oct 11 |
Approval of Cherry Marketing Orders |


90th Congress |

1967 (1st Session) |
|

Mar 1 |
Food Aid for India |

Mar 1 & 2 |
Administration of Farm Programs |

Apr 25 |
Food Stamp Appropriations Authorization |

May 2, 4 & 11 |
Agricultural Producers Marketing Act |

May 16, & 18-19 |
Dairy Import Act of 1967 |

Jul 12 & 13 |
Community Centers and FHA Loans and Grants |

Aug 29 |
User Charges for Inspection Services |

Sep 26 |
Extension Services for the District of Columbia |

Sep 26 |
World Farm Center |

Nov 2 |
Interest Rates |

Nov 9-10, & 14-15 |
Meat Inspection |

Nov 13 |
Crude Pine Gum Act of 1967 |

1968 (2nd Session) |
|

Jan 23 & 24 |
Extra-Long Staple Cotton Imports |

Jan 25 & 26 |
Management and Regulation of Stockyards |

Jan 30 & 31 |
Commodity Reserves |

Feb 2 |
FHA Emergency Loans |

Feb 29 |
FHA Loans to Cooperatives |

Mar 13-15 |
Extension of Public Law 480 |

Mar 21 |
Financial Assistance for Watershed Projects |

Apr 3-5, 8-10, & 24 |
Farm Program and Farm Bargaining |

Apr 25 |
Young Farmers Investment Act |

Apr 30 |
Capitalization of Federal Intermediate Credit Banks |

Jun 17 |
Grain Standards |

Jun 24-26 |
Agriculture Act of 1968 |

Jul 1 & 2 |
Wholesome Poultry Products Act |

Jul 18 & 19 |
Peanut Marketing Act of 1968 |

Sep 11 |
Handler Approval of Cherry Marketing Orders |

Sep 11 |
Potato Research and Promotion Act |

Sep 12 |
Retirement of Government Capital in Certain Farm Credit Institutions |

Oct 7 |
Milk Marketing Order Class I Base Plan and Market Promotion |


91st Congress |

1969 (1st Session) |
|

Jan 16 |
Prospective Nominations of Dr. Clifford M. Hardin, J. Phil Campbell, And Clarence D. Palmby |

Feb 26 |
Nominations of Richard E. Lyng, David A. Hamil, and James V. Smith |

May 8 |
Potato Research and Promotion Act |

May 22-23, & 26-27 |
Food Stamp Program and Commodity Distribution |

Jun 10 |
Potato Marketing Orders |

July 17 |
Uniform Standards and Procedures for Certifying Seed |

Jul 24 |
Tulelake Area Durum Wheat Acreage Allotments |

Jul 29 |
FHA Insured Operating Loans |

Sep 29-30, & Oct 1 |
School Lunch and Child Nutrition Programs |

Oct 14 |
Attorneys for FHA Borrowers |

Oct 21 |
National Timber Supply Act |

Nov 6 |
Rural Telephone Bank |

Nov 14 |
Egg Products Inspection Act |

Nov 20 & Dec 9 |
Agricultural Marketing and Bargaining Act |

Dec 8 |
International Quarantine Station |

1970 (2nd Session) |
|

Jan 20, 26-27, & Mar 16-17 |
Consumer Agricultural Food Protection Act |

Feb 18-20, 23-26 & Mar 23 |
Agricultural Act of 1970 |

Apr 16, 27 |
Custom Slaughtering Operations and State Meat Inspection |

Jun 11 |
Plant Variety Protection Act |

Jul 16 & 17 |
Inspection of Meat Imports |

Sep 28 |
Loans for Mink Farmers |

Dec 8 |
Burley Tobacco Acreage Allotment |


92nd Congress |

1971 (1st Session) |
|

Mar 2 |
Poundage Quotas for Burley Tobacco |

Mar 9 |
Insured FHA Operating Loans |

Mar 15 & 16 |
Upland cotton Program |

Mar 18 |
Citrus Exports |

Mar 23-26 & Mar 7-8, 1972 |
Federal Environmental Pesticide Control Act |

April 23 |
Rural Development, Part 1 |

Apr 29, & Jun 16-17 |
" " Part 2 |

May 3 & 4 |
" " Part 3 (Held in Sioux City, Iowa and Vermillion, South Dakota) |

May 17-18, & 20 |
Farm Credit Act of 1971 |

May 26 |
Cooperative Federal State Meat Inspection |

Jun 8 |
Child Nutrition Programs |

Jul 8 & 9 |
Rural Development, Part 3, Continued (Held in Montgomery, Alabama, and Clifton, Georgia) |

Jul 14 |
Crop Insurance |

Jul 23, & Sep 21-24 |
Rural Development, Part 4 |

Sep 9 & 10 |
Rural Development, Part 5 (Held in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and Lincoln, Nebraska) |

Sep 16 |
School Lunch Regulations |

Sep 20 |
Rural Development, Part 6 |

Sep 28 |
Inspection of Meat Imports |

Sep 30, & Oct 1 |
Pest Control Research |

Oct 26 & 27 |
Financial Needs of Rural Electric Cooperatives |

Nov 5 |
Effect on Agriculture of the Labor-Management Dispute in the Shipping &Industry |

Nov 10 |
Price Support Loans for Wheat and Feed Grains and Commodity Reserves |

Nov 15-16, & 22-23 |
Farm Bargaining |

Nov 17-19 |
Nomination of Earl Lauer Butz |

Dec 14 |
Rural Development, Part 7 (Held in Bowling Green, Ohio) |

1972 (2nd Session) |
|

Jan 24 |
Commodity Reserves and Wheat and Feed Grain Programs |

Feb 15, & 17 |
Egg Industry Adjustment Act |

Feb 22 & 23 |
Tobacco Exports |

Feb 29 |
Vermejo Ranch |

Apr 17 |
Forestry Programs |

May 4 |
Wheat and Wheat Foods Research, Education, and Promotion Act |

Jul 5 |
Food Prices (Held in Tallahassee, Florida) |

Jul 6 |
Farm Program Administration (Held in Raleigh, North Carolina) |

Jul 20 & 21 |
Wild Areas in the National Forests |

Jul 26 & 27 |
Restrictions on Cattlehide Exports |

Jul 28 |
Extension of Child Nutrition Programs |

Sep 7 |
Pear Marketing Orders |


93rd Congress |

1973 (1st Session) |
|

Jan 29 & 30 |
Boxcar Shortage |

Feb 1-2, & 5-6 |
Impoundment of Funds for Farm and Rural Programs |

Feb 27-28, Mar 1-2, 8-9, 13-14, & 29 |
Extension of Farm and Related Programs (Part 1) |

Mar 1, & 27-28 |
Implementation of Rural Development Act (Part 1) |

Mar 6 |
Nomination of Robert W. Long |

Apr 6 & 7 |
Extension of Farm and Related Programs Part 2 (Held in Chickasha, Oklahoma and Ardmore, Oklahoma) |

Mar 15 |
1973 Dairy Price Supports |

Mar 23, Apr 4-5, 16, & 30 |
U.S. Foreign Agricultural Trade Policy |

Apr 4 |
Nominations of Luther W. Jennejahn and Alfred Underdahl to be Members of the Federal Farm Credit Board (Executive Session) |

Apr 13 |
Tobacco Marketing Quotas |

Apr 18 |
Extension of Farm and Related Programs Part 3 (Held in Montgomery, Alabama) |

Apr 19 |
Part 4 (Held in Ames, Iowa) |

Apr 19 & 20 |
Part 5 (Held in Waynesboro, Georgia, Macon, Georgia, and Tifton, Georgia) |

Apr 27 |
Part 6 (Held in Huron, South Dakota) |

Jun 12 & 13 |
Impact of Fuel Shortages on Agriculture |

Jun 14 |
State Meat Inspection Standards |

Jun 26 & 27 |
Forest Service Reorganization and Forestry Programs |

Jul 11 |
Export Control Policy |

Sep 13 |
School Lunch and Breakfast Programs |

Sep 20 |
Interstate Shipment of Meat |

Sep 27 |
Animal Health Research |

Oct 17 & 18 |
U.S. and World Food Situation |

Nov 20 |
Forest and Rangeland Environmental Management Act Amendment |

Dec 4 |
Co-op Loans (Held in Madison, South Dakota) |

1974 (2nd Session) |
|

Jan 16 & 17 |
Livestock Feeding Problems (Held in Sioux Center, Iowa and Maquoketa, Iowa) |

Feb 4 |
Grain Supplies and Demand |

Feb 19 |
Fertilizer Supply, Demand, and Prices (Part 1) |

Feb 21 |
National Feed Grain Acreage Allotment for 1974 |

Mar 8 |
Fertilizer Supply, Demand, and Prices (Part 2) (Held in Omaha, Nebraska) |

Mar 13 & 14 |
Farm and Retail Prices for Beef |

Mar 21 & 22 |
Consumer and Marketing Reserves |

Mar 25 & 26 |
Farm Fuel Situation |

Apr 4 |
Foreign Food Assistance |

Apr 11 |
FHA Loans and Forward Contracts |

Apr 19 |
Western Agriculture -- Prospects, Problems, and Solutions (Held in Salt Lake City, Utah) |

May 8 & 9 |
Implementation of Rural Development Act (Part 3) |

May 13-17, & 20-22 |
Commodity Futures Trading Commission Act |

Jun 17 |
Guaranteed Livestock Loans |

Jun 27 |
Implementation of Conservation Programs - REAP and RECP |

Jul 12 |
Egg Research and Consumer Information Act |

Jul 18 |
Exemption of Guaranteed REA Loans from Securities and Exchange Commission Regulation |

Jul 24 & 25 |
Future Supply-Demand Situation for Fertilizer, Fuel, and Pesticides |

Aug 15 |
Current Supply-Demand Situation for Food and Fiber |

Aug 19 |
Weather Modification Grants (Held in Lawton, Oklahoma) |

Sep 16 |
Ambulance Services in Rural Areas (Held in Edmond, Oklahoma) |

Sep 30 |
Dairy Price Situation |

Oct 3 |
Noxious Weed Act |

Dec 3 |
Rice Act of 1974 |

Dec 10, & 12 |
U.S. Food Situation and Foreign Commercial and Food Aid Demands |

Dec 11 & 12 |
Tobacco Price Supports |


94th Congress |

1975 (1st Session) |
|

Jan 22, & Mar 6 |
Implementation of the Rural Development Act (Part 4) |

Feb 3-7, & 17-21 |
Agriculture and Anti-Depression Act of 1975, Parts 1-3 |

Mar 4, & 14 |
Agriculture and Anit-Depression Act of 1975, Part 4 (Field Hearings in Des Moines, Iowa and Kingsley, Iowa) |

Feb 17 |
Farm Credit and Livestock Situations (Field Hearing in Sioux Falls, South Dakota) |

Feb 27-28, & Mar 3 |
Food Market Structure and Marketing Costs (Field Hearings in Denver, Colorado, Dallas, Texas, and Louisville, Kentucky) |

Apr 10 |
Nominations to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission |

Apr 14 |
Beef Research and Consumer Information Act (S. 772) |

Apr 17 |
Foreign Food Assistance and Agricultural Development |

Apr 22, & 24 |
Child Nutrition Programs (S. 850, S. 882, S. 891, S. 894, and S. 1309) |

Apr 30 |
REA Generation and Transmission Loans |

May 1 |
Implementation of World Food Conference Recommendations |

May 13 |
Transfer of Flue-Cured Tobacco Acreage (S. 700) |

May 20, & Oct 28-29 |
Extension of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (S. 1629, and H.R. 8841) |

May 22 |
Exemption of Foreign-Owned Reserves from Export Controls (S. 1354) |

Jun 3 |
Importation of the African/Brazilian Honeybee |

Jun 9 |
CCC Loans for Wet Storage (S. 1331) |

Jun 19 |
Grain Inspection, Part 1 (S.J. Res. 88, S. 2256, S. 2297, S. 2326, S. 3055, and Continuing Investigation) |

Jul 8 |
Grain Inspection, Part 2 |

Jul 11 |
Quarterly Agricultural Review |

Jul 19, & 25 |
Livestock Marketing (S. 1532, and S. 2034, Field Hearing in Omaha, Nebraska) |

Jul 21 |
Medical Facilities, Concerted Services, and Employment Projects in Rural Areas (S. 1353, S. 1807, and S. 1916) |

Jul 31 |
Health Manpower for Rural Areas (S. 989, S. 990, S. 991, S. 996, and H.R. 5546) |

Aug 14, & 15 |
Grain Inspection, Part 3 (Field Hearings in Bondurant, Iowa and Walcott, Iowa) |

Sep 4 |
Russian Grain Sale |

Sep 9 |
Impact of Energy Decontrol on Agriculture |

Sep 25 & 26 |
Grain Inspection, Part 4 |

Sep 28 & 29 |
Bristol Cliffs Wilderness (S. 2308) |

Sep 29 |
Farm Production Costs (S. 1857, and S. 1858) |

Oct 7-10, & 20 |
Food Stamp Reform, Part 1 |

Oct 21& 22 |
Will the Family Farm Survive in America? (Select Committee on Small Business and Committee on Public Works) |

Nov 10 |
Land and Water Resources Conservation Act of 1975 (S. 2081) |

Nov 14 |
Rice Programs (S. 1645, S. 2260, and S. 2385) |

Nov 17 & 20 |
Food Stamp Reform, Part 2 (S. 1993, S. 2369, S. 2451, and S. 2537) |

Dec 1 |
ASCS Farmer Committeemen (S. Res. 272) |

Dec 2 |
Nomination of William H. Walker, III |

Dec 9 & 10 |
Nomination of John A. Knebel |

1976 (2nd Session) |
|

Jan 21 |
Food Stamp Vendor Fraud |

Jan 22-23, & 26-27 |
Kepone Contamination |

Jan 22 & 23 |
Who's Making U.S. Foreign Agricultural Policy? |

Jan 27-29, & Feb 4-5 |
Joint session with House Agriculture Committee, FmHA Management Capability |

Feb 16 |
Success Stories in Rural Health Care Delivery (Field Hearing in Burlington, Vermont) |

Feb 20 |
Grain Inspection, Part 5 |

Mar 4 |
Oversight Budget and Needs of Commodity Futures Trading Commission |

Mar 11 |
Grain Inspection, Part 6 |

Mar 12 |
Grain Inspection, Part 7 |

Mar 15-16, & 22 |
Forest and Rangeland Management (S. 2851, S. 2926, and S. 3091) |

Mar 16 |
Grain Inspection, Part 8 |

Mar 18 |
Meat and Dairy Import Restrictions (S. 588, and S. 2598) |

May 11 |
Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (S. 1650) |

May 12 |
Farmer to Consumer Direct Marketing Act (S. 1985, S. 2610, and H.R. 10339) |

Jun 10 & 11 |
Young Farmers Homestead Act (S. 2589) |

Jun 17 |
Requirements for Imported Tomatoes (S. 2440) |

Jun 21 |
Default of Futures Contracts for Maine Potatoes |

Jun 23, & 25 |
National Food Marketing Commission (S. 3004, and S. 2045) |

Jun 24 |
Grain Export Policy Management |

Jul 1 |
Disaster Program Evaluation |

Jul 6 |
Federal Soil Conservation Cost-Sharing Program (Field Hearings in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Sioux City, Iowa) |

Aug 16 & 17 |
Agricultural Potential in Alaska (Field Hearings in Palmer, Alaska, and Fairbanks, Alaska) |

Aug 18, & 21 |
National Forest Problems Unique in Alaska (Field Hearings in Juneau, Alaska, Sitka, Alaska, and Ketchikan, Alaska) |

Aug 20 |
Rural Development Oversight (Field Hearing in Long Grove, Iowa) |

Sep 17 |
Modification of REA Loan Criteria (H.R. 12207) |

Oct 12, 14, & 17-19 |
Rural Health Services (Field Hearings in Grimes, Iowa, Treynor, Iowa, Moville, Iowa, Traer, Iowa, Mechanicsville, Iowa,and Eldridge, Iowa) |


95th Congress |

1977 (1st Session) |
|

Jan 11 |
Nomination of Bob Bergland to be Secretary of Agriculture |

Feb 4-5, 12, 14-18, & 26 |
General Farm and Food Legislation (Field Hearings in Fairfax and Ankeny, Iowa, Sergeant Bluff, Iowa, Goodland, Kansas, Manhatten, Kansas, Hutchinson and Winfield, Kansas, Decatur, Alabama, Raleigh, North Carolina, Dothan, Alabama, Montgomery, Alabama, and Sioux Falls, South Dakota) |

Feb 22-25, 28, Mar 1, 3-4, 7-11, 14, 23, 31, & Apr 7 |
General Farm and Food Legislation |

Mar 15 |
Nomination of John C. White to be Deputy Secretary of Agriculture |

Mar 15-16, & 21 |
Nomination of Carol T. Forman to be an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture and a Member of the Board of Directors of the Commodity Credit Corporation |

Apr 6 |
Nominations of John C. White, Howard W. Hjort, Malcolm Rupert Cutler, Dale Ernest Hathaway, Robert Haldeman Meyer, and Alex P. Mercure |

1978 (2nd Session) |
|

Jan 16, & Feb 4 |
The State of American Agriculture, Part 2 (Field Hearings in Kansas City, Kansas, and Columbia, South Carolina) |

Jan 24 |
The State of American Agriculture, Part 1, Secretary Bergland |

Jan 30-31, & Feb 1 |
Joint Hearing with Small Business Committee on Disaster Assistance Programs |

Feb 23, 27-28, & Mar 1-3 |
The State of American Agriculture, Part 3 |

Feb 24 |
Nomination of P.R. Smith, of Georgia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture |

Mar 6-10 |
The State of American Agriculture, Part 4 |

May 17 |
Nomination of David G. Gartner, Commissioner-Designate, Commodity Futures Trading Commission |

Jun 28 |
Appointment of David G. Gartner, Commodity Futures Trading Commission |

Dec 11 |
Problems of Entry into Family Farming |


96th Congress |

1979 (1st Session) |
|

Jan 24 |
The State of American Agriculture |

Feb 9 |
American Agriculture Movement |

Feb 22 |
Nominations of James H. Williams to be Deputy Secretary of Agriculture And a member of the Board of Directors of the Commodity Credit Corporation |

Feb 26 |
Multilateral Trade Negotiations Briefing |

Mar 7 |
Nomination of Dale Ernest Hathaway to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for International Affairs and Commodity Programs |

Apr 4 |
Nominations of James M. Stone to be a member and Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission |

Apr 25 |
Nomination of Reed P. Dunn, Jr., to be a member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission |

May 7 |
Review of Multilateral Trade Negotiations |

May 23, & Jun 20 |
Nominations of Thomas F. McBride to be Inspector General, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Daniel Marcus to be General Counsel, U.S. Department of Agriculture |

Jun 27 & 28 |
Impact of MTN on Agriculture |

Jul 14 |
RARE II Wilderness Proposals (Field hearing in Middlebury, Vermont) |

Aug 14 & 15 |
Impact of Fuel Shortages During Harvest (Aug 14 Field Hearing held in Tupelo, Mississippi, Aug 15 Field Hearing held in West Memphis, Arkansas) |

Sep 19 |
Nominations of Dwight L. Tripp, Jr., and Jewell Haaland |

Oct 17 |
Nomination of James C. Webster to be an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture |

Nov 27 |
Amendments to the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 |

1980 (2nd Session) |
|

Jan 22 |
Embargo on Grain Sales to the Soviet Union |

Feb 25-27, & Mar 6 |
Emergency Agricultural Act of 1980 |

Mar 12 |
Increase in Minimum Level Price Support on 1980 and 1981 Quota Peanuts |

Aug 20 |
Nominations of Ralph Raikes and William D. Wampler |

Aug 28-30 |
1981 Farm and Food Legislation (Field Hearing in St. Paul, Minnesota) |

Sep 16 |
Effects of the Drought on Georgia Farmers and the Agricultural Economy |

Oct 7 |
Effects of Drought on Arkansas farmers (Field hearing in Pine Bluff, Arkansas) |


97th Congress |

1981 (1st Session) |
|

Jan 6 |
Nomination of John R. Block to be Secretary of Agriculture |

Feb 18 |
Nominations of Richard E. Lyng to be Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, and C.W. McMillan to be Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Marketing and Transportation Services |

Mar 2-6, 9-13, 19-20, 23, 24, & Apr 1, 8-9 |
Proposed Reauthorization of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 Part I |

Mar 6, Apr 2, & 6 |
Proposed Reauthorization of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 Part II |

Mar 28 |
Proposed Reauthorization of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 (Field Hearing in Lincoln, Nebraska) |

Mar 31 |
Nominations of Seeley G. Lodwick, William Gene Lesher, John B. Crowell, Jr., and C.W. McMillan |

Apr 13, & 16-17 |
Proposed Reauthorization of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 (Field Hearing in Urbana, Illinois, Columbus, Mississippi, and Memphis, Tennessee) |

May 13 |
Nominations of Frank Wesley Naylor, Jr., to be Undersecretary for Small Community and Rural Development; Mary C. Jarratt, to Assistant Secretary for Food and Consumer Services; and A. James Barnes, to be General Counsel, U.S. Department of Agriculture |

May 20 |
Nominations of Kenneth Gilles, of Minnesota, to be Administrator of the Federal Grain Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; and Philip Johnson of Illinois, to be a Commissioner and Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission |

Jul 20 |
Nomination of John B. Graziano, of Virginia, to be Inspector General, U.S. Department of Agriculture |

Jul 29 |
Nominations of Harold V. Hunter to be Administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration and Charles Wilson Shuman to be Administrator of the Farmers Home Administration |

Oct 21 |
Nominations of Dr. Susan M. Phillips to be a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Everett M. Rank to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Commodity Credit Corporation |

Oct 28 |
Administrator's Recommendations for a Comprehensive Soil and Water Conservation Act Program |

Dec 9 |
Nominations of Ralph Ball, of Kansas, and W. Proctor Scarboro, of North Carolina, to be members of the Federal Farm Credit Board, Farm Credit Administration |

Dec 15 |
Nomination of Kalo A. Hineman, of Kansas, to be a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission |

1982 (2nd Session) |
|

Feb 12 |
Oversight on the Tobacco Price Support Program, (Joint Field Hearing with the Subcommittee on Tobacco and Peanuts, U.S. House of Representatives in Raleigh, North Carolina) |

Mar 12 |
Soviet Bloc Debt and Financial Integrity of the CCC |

Mar 15 |
Oversight on the Tobacco Price Support Program, (Field Hearing in Lexington, Kentucky) |

Mar 29 |
Reauthorization of the Food Stamp Program |

May 3 |
Proposed Eligibility of the People's Republic of China for Participation in the Food for Peace Program |

Jun 21 & 22 |
Reauthorization of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (S. 2245, S. 2620, and S. 2621) |

Aug 7 |
Nominations of Wilmer D. Mizell, Sr., Leonard R. Fouts, and Tom H. Carothers |

Sep 29 |
Nominations of Fowler C. West and Orville G. Bentley |

Dec 2 |
Assessment of General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) Conference |


98th Congress |

1983 (1st Session) |
|

Feb 17, & 25 |
Agricultural Export Trade (S. 14, S. 18, S. 77, S. 100, S. 124 (Title V), S. 251, S. 398, S. 490, and S. 575 (Title XI)) |

Feb 28 |
Federal Grain Storage Insurance Act of 1983 (S. 550; S. Hearing 98-120) (Field Hearing in West Memphis, Arkansas) |

Mar 7 |
Nomination of John J. Franke, Jr., of Kansas, to be an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture (S. Hearing 98-71) |

Mar 16 |
Mandatory Workfare Program for Able-Bodied Food Stamp Recipients (S. Hearing 98-285) |

Apr 11 |
Administration's Budget Proposals for the Food and Nutrition Service Programs (S. Hearing 98-300) |

Apr 19 |
Prohibition of Incentive Payments for Crops Produced on Highly Erodible Land (S. 663, S. Hearing 98-341) |

May 11 |
Nomination of Daniel G. Amstutz, of New York, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for International Affairs and Commodity Programs (S. Hearing 98-210) |

Jun 14 |
Proposed Changes in the Federal Tobacco Program (S. Hearing 98-320) |

Jul 20 |
Improved Standards for Laboratory Animals (S. 657, S. Hearing 98-470) |

Jul 21 |
Federal Meat and Poultry Products Inspection Act of 1983 (S. 593, S. Hearing 98-471) |

Jul 26 |
Nominations of Paul I. Enns, of California, and Joseph Alison Kyser, of Alabama, to be members of the Federal Farm Credit Board, Farm Credit Administration (S. Hearing 98-325) |

Sep 14 |
Private Sector Initiatives to Feed America's Poor (S. Hearing 98-490) |

Nov 9 |
Nominations of Susan Meredith Phillips, of Iowa, to be Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; Daniel Oliver, of Connecticut, to be General Counsel of the Department of Agriculture; and William E. Seale, of Virginia, to be a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (S. Hearing 98-615) |

Nov 15 |
Collectivization and Its Impact on the Ukranian Population and on Soviet Agricultural Productivity (S. Hearing 98-959) |

Dec 2 |
Strengths and Weaknesses of the Federal Crop Insurance Program (Field Hearing in Des Moines, Iowa, S. Hearing 98-902) |

1984 (2nd Session) |
|

Jan 23 |
Potential Health Effects in Human Populations from Exposure to Ethylene Dibromide (Field Hearing in Orlando, Florida, S. Hearing 98-660) |

Jan 25 |
North Carolina Wilderness Areas (H.R. 3960, S. Hearing 98-715) |

Feb 1 |
Food Stamp Optional Block Grant Act (S. 1279, S. Hearing 98-98-765) |

Feb 22 |
Review of the Grace Commission Report on the Department of Agriculture (S. Hearing 98-734) |

Mar 12, & Apr 4 |
Review and Authorization of Certain Child Nutrition Programs (S. Hearing 98-948) |

Mar 5, & Apr 9 |
Evaluation and Reauthorization of the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), (S. Hearing 98-985) |

Mar 19 |
Oversight on the Food Stamp Program (Field Hearing in Raleigh, North Carolina) |

Mar 21, & Apr 30 |
Oversight on the Food Stamp Program (S. Hearing 98-973) |

Apr 25 |
Oversight of Food and Nutrition Service Programs: Food Stamps, Child Nutrition, and Commodity Distribution (S. Hearing 98-995) |

Jun 12 |
The Civil Rights Act of 1984 (S. 2568), (Investigating the Possible Effects on the Agricultural Community)(S. Hearing 98-1065) |

Sep 12 |
Nominations of Melvin A. Ensley, of Washington, and Crete B. Harvey, of Illinois, to be members of the Federal Farm Credit Board, Farm Credit Administration and Robert R. Davis, of Illinois, to be a commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (S. Hearing 98-1113) |

Oct 1 |
Citrus Canker (Field Hearing in Orlando, Florida, S. Hearing 98-1167) |


99th Congress |

1985 (1st Session) |
|

Jan 12, Apr 10, Mar 12, 14, 19-20, & May 1 |
Framework and Analysis for Agricultural Policy in 1985 (S. Hearing 99-55) |

Feb 11, Mar 18, & Apr 12 |
Reauthorization of the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981, Part III (Field Hearings in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Montpelier, Vermont, and Fresno, California) |

Mar 7, 21-22, 25, & 27-29 |
Reauthorization of the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981, Part I (S. Hearing 99-115) |

Mar 27 |
Nomination of John R. Morton III, of Arizona, to be Deputy Secretary of Agriculture (S. Hearing 99-137) |

Apr 1-4, 15, 18, & 24-25 |
Reauthorization of the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981, Part II |

Apr 4 |
Agricultural Trade Amendment Act of 1985 (S. 721, S. Hearing 99-96) |

Apr 8 |
Oversight of the Farm Credit System and Production Credit Associations (Field Hearing in Missoula, Montana, S. Hearing 99-1057) |

Apr 22 |
Nominations of Peter C. Myers, of Missouri, to be an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment, and Robert L. Thompson, of Indiana, to be an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Economics (S. Hearing 99-88) |

Apr 27 |
Reauthorization of the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981, Part IV (Field Hearings in Helena, Montana, Lincoln, Nebraska, Malta, Montana and Ogallala, Nebraska) Not Printed. |

Jun 24 |
Nomination of John W. Bode, of Oklahoma, to be an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture (S. Hearing 99-162) |

Jul 22 |
Tobacco Program Improvement Act of 1985 (S. Hearing 99-284) |

Sep 9 |
Nominations of Susan Meredith Phillips, of Iowa, to be a Commissioner and Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; Vance L. Clark, of California, to be Administrator of the Farmers Home Administration; and Larry L. DeVuyst, of Michigan, to be a member of the Federal Farm Credit Board, Farm Credit Administration (S. Hearing 99-370) |

Oct 31, & Nov 1 |
Examination of the Financial Condition of the Farm Credit System (S. Hearing 99-533) |

Nov 11 |
Big Rivers Electric Cooperative Foreclosure (Field Hearing in Henderson, Kentucky, S. Hearing 99-484) |

Nov 12 |
Examination of the Soviet Vessel __Marshal Konev__ and Agricultural Commodities relating to Grain Purchases (S. Hearing 99-447) |

1986 (2nd Session) |
|

Jan 30 |
FmHA Loan Servicing Regulations and a GAO Report on FmHA's Farm Loan Portfolio (S. Hearing 99-563) |

Feb 19 & 20 |
Reauthorization of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (S. 2045, S. Hearing 99-628) |

Mar 4 |
Nomination of Richard E. Lyng, of Virginia, to be Secretary of Agriculture (S. Hearing 99-614) |

Apr 2 |
International Agricultural Trade Negotiations in the Mid-1980's (Field Hearing in Sacramento, California, S. Hearing 99-658) |

Apr 22, & 30 |
To Amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (S. Hearing 99-687) |

May 6 |
To Examine the Effects of the European Community Enlargement on U.S. Agricultural Exports (S. Hearing 99-775) |

May 15 |
Nominations of Frank Naylor, of Virginia, and Marvin Duncan, of Missouri, to be Members of the Farm Credit Administration Board (S. Hearing 99-736) |

May 15 |
Possible Impact on Agriculture of the Explosion of the Nuclear Plant at Chernobyl (S. Hearing 99-718) |

May 21 |
Nominations of Peter C. Myers, of Missouri, to be a Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, and Christopher Hicks, of Maryland, to be General Counsel, U.S. Department of Agriculture (S. Hearing 99-719) |

Jun 5 |
Nomination of George S. Dunlop, of North Carolina, to be an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture (S. Hearing 99-776) |

Jun 18 |
Nominations of Kalo A. Hineman, of Kansas, to be a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission; Kenneth A. Gilles, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture; Kathleen W. Lawrence, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Small Community and Rural Development; and Robert W. Beuley, of Virginia, to be Inspector General, Department of Agriculture (S. Hearing 99-1030) |

Aug 28 |
Review of the Implementation of the Food Security Act of 1985 (Field Hearing in Lincoln, Nebraska) |

Sep 10 |
Nomination of Walker Kirk Miller, of Wisconsin, to be Administrator of the Federal Grain Inspection Service (S. Hearing 99-945) |

Sep 17 |
Current Financial Condition of the Farm Credit System (S. Hearing 99-974) |

Sep 24 |
Nomination of Jim R. Billington, of Oklahoma, to be a Member of the Farm Credit Administration (S. Hearing 99-946) |

Oct 21 |
U.S./Japan Rice Trade (S. Hearing 99-1051) |


100th Congress |

1987 (1st Session) |
|

Feb 4 |
Department of Agriculture's Budget Request for 1988 (S. Hearing 100-133) |

Feb 9-11, & Mar 30 |
Examination of Problems Affecting the Farm Community (Field Hearings in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Bismark, North Dakota, Omaha, Nebraska, Underwood, Iowa, Garretson, South Dakota, and Tifton, Georgia, S. Hearing 100-401) |

Mar 11 |
Proposed Changes in Farmers Home Administration Credit Regulations (S. Hearing 100-175) |

Mar 18 |
The 1985 Farm Bill Revisited: Competing Views (S. Hearing 100-206) |

Mar 26 |
Generic Payment-in-Kind Certificates (S. Hearing 100-219) |

Apr 7 |
Rural Area Revitalization: The Economic Problems of Rural Communities (S. Hearing 100-355) |

Apr 29, May 30, & July 30 |
Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, Parts I and II (S. Hearing 100-394) |

May 5 |
Rural Area Revitalization: Rural America; Jobs and Economic Revitalization (S. Hearing 100-355) |

May 15 |
Alternative Agricultural Products Research Act of 1987 (S. 970, S. Hearing 100-208) |

Jun 4 |
Foodborne Illnesses and Deaths (S. Hearing 100-396) |

Jun 9 |
Reform and modernization of the Farmers Home Administration (S. 1179, S. Hearing 100-409) |

Jun 30 |
Nominations of Milton J. Hertz and Ewen M. Wilson (S. Hearing 100-523) |

Jul 15 |
Oversight Hearing on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (S. Hearing 100-676) |

July 27 |
Rural Agricultural Issues in the State of Vermont (Field Hearing in Winooski, Vermont, S. Hearing 100-597) |

Nov 4 |
The Use and Regulation of Biotechnology in Agriculture, Joint Hearing before the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, and the Subcommittee on Technology and the Law of the Committee on the Judiciary (S. Hearing 100-565) |

Nov 16 |
Nomination of Rolland R. Vautour (S. Hearing 100-589) |

1988 (2nd Session) |
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Feb 3 |
Nomination of Wendy L. Gramm (S. Hearing 100-675) |

Mar 1 |
Hunger in America (S. Hearing 100-710) |

Mar 17, & Apr 27 |
Oversight Hearings--Matter Relating to the October 19, Market Break (S. Hearing 100-763) |

Mar 22 |
Department of Agricultureï¿½s Budget Request for Fiscal Year 1989 (S. Hearing 100-794) |

Apr 28, & May 11 |
The National Dairy Program (S. Hearing 100-828) |

May 24 |
The United States-Canada Free-Trade Agreement (S. Hearing 100-896) |

Jun 7 |
Reappointment of Fowler C. West and Nomination of William W. Erwin (S. Hearing 100-831) |

Jul 12 |
Drought Legislation (S. 2631, S. Hearing 100-950) |

Sep 13 |
Nominations of John R. Dahl, George J. Bentson, Derryl J. McLaren, Gordon C. Southern, and Edward c. Williamson, Jr. (S. Hearing 100-929) |

Dec 1 |
The Potential Impact of Global Warming on Agriculture (S. Hearing 100-980) |


101st Congress |

1989 (1st Session) |
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Feb 2 |
Nomination of Clayton Yeutter, of Nebraska, to be Secretary of Agriculture (S. Hearing 101-27) |

Feb 23, Mar 9, & May 17 |
Oversight Hearings on Trading Practices in the Commodity Futures Markets, Part I (S. Hearing 101-388) |

Apr 5, May 11, & May 16 |
Full Committee with Rural Development and Rural Electrification Subcommittee hearing--Rural Development Issues (S. Hearing 101-103) |

Apr 11 |
Nomination of Jack C. Parnell, of California, to be Deputy Secretary of Agriculture and Richard T. Crowder, of Minnesota, to be Deputy Under Secretary for International Affairs and Commodity Programs (S. Hearing 101-211) |

Apr 19 |
Preparation for the 1990 Farm Bill-Administration Views (S. Hearing 101-259, Part I) |

Apr 24-25, Aug 17, & Oct 16 |
Preparation for the 1990 Farm Bill (Field Hearings, S. Hearing 101-259 Part II):Livestock, Crops and Rural Development, Snowdoun, Alabama, Commodity Programs and Alternative Agriculture, Cleveland, Mississippi, Commodity Programs and Conservation Issues, Marion, Arkansas,Commodity Programs and Conservation Issues, Platte City, Missouri, Commodity programs and General Legislation, Des Moines, Iowa, Livestock and Commodity Programs, Camilla, Georgia |

May 12 |
Nominations of Charles E. Hess, of California, to be Assistant Secretary for Science and Education; Franklin E. Bailey, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary for Congressional Affairs; Alan Charles Raul, of New York, to be General Counsel to the Department of Agriculture; Jo Ann D. Smith, of Florida, to be Assistant Secretary for Marketing and Inspection Services (S. Hearing 101-677) |

Jul 13 |
Disaster Assistance (S. Hearing 101-898) |

Sep 8 |
Oversight Hearings on Trading Practices in the Commodity Futures Markets, Part II (S. Hearing 101-101-388) |

Sep 11 |
Preparation for the 1990 Farm Bill-Dairy, Environment, and Conservation Issues (Field Hearing in Montpelier, Vermont, S. Hearing 101-259, Part V) Sep 27, & Oct 4 Nomination of James E. Cason, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment (S. Hearing 101-1167) |

Oct 3 |
Nominations of Harold B. Steele, of Illinois, to be a Member of the Farm Credit Administration Board, Farm Credit Administration; Catherine Ann Bertini, of Illinois, to be an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Food and Consumer Services; and Bruce L. Gardner, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Economics (S. Hearing 101-1026) |

Oct 17 & 18 |
Futures Trading Practices Act of 1989 (S. 1729, S. Hearing 101-1052) |

Oct 24 |
Fish Inspection: Pending Legislation Regarding Mandatory Seafood Inspection (S. Hearing 101-964) |

Nov 6 |
Global Climate Change Prevention Act of 1989 (S. 1610, S. Hearing 101-1135) |

Nov 7, 1989, Jan 25, Feb 7, Feb 21, & Mar 21, 1990 |
Preparation for the 1990 Farm Bill (S. Hearing 101-259, Part VII) Reform of Public Law 480-Food for Peace, Impact of Agriculture on Groundwater; Opportunity for Action, Administration Views,
Trade,
Testimony for the 1990 Farm Bill. |

Nov 9 |
Puerto Rico Status Referendum Act (S. 712, S. Hearing 101-1151) |

Nov 15 |
Nominations of William P. Albrecht, of Iowa, to be a Commissioner for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for the term expiring April 13, 1993; Leon Snead, of Maryland, to be Inspector General, Department of Agriculture; and Adis Maria Vila, of Florida, to be an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Administration (S. Hearing 101-1226) |

1990 (2nd Session) |
|

Feb 27, Mar 7, & Apr 18 |
Preparation for the 1990 Farm Bill (S. Hearing 101-259, Part XIV)
Nutrition,
Nutrition,
Dairy. |

Feb 28 |
Nominations of Gary C. Byrne, of California, to be Administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration; and LaVerne G. Ausman, of Wisconsin, to be Administrator of the Farmers Home Administration (S. Hearing 101-1239) |

Mar 28 |
Preparation for the 1990 Farm Bill-Circle of Poison; the Pesticide Export Reform Act of 1990 (S. 2227, S. Hearing 101-259, Part XV) |

Apr 3 |
Nomination of John C. Foltz, of Ohio, to be Administrator of the Federal Grain Inspection Service (S. Hearing 101-1240) |

May 8 |
Issues Relating to the Jurisdiction of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission (S. Hearing 101-1100) |

Jun 27 |
Nomination of James R. Moseley, of Indiana, to be Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment (S. Hearing 101-1242) |

Jul 24 |
National Tree Trust Act of 1990 (S. 2426, S. Hearing 101-1244) |

Aug 2 |
Nomination of Wendy L. Gramm, of Texas, to be a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Reappointment), and to be Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Reappointment) (S. Hearing 101-1245) |

Oct 4 |
Whistleblower Problems in the Federal Grain Inspection Service (S. Hearing 101-1246) |

Oct 15 |
Nominations of Billy Ross Brown, of Mississippi, to be a Member of the Farm Credit Administration Board, Farm Credit Administration, for the term expiring October 13, 1994; John C. Datt, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Farm Credit Administration Board, Farm Credit Administration for the term ending May 21, 1996; and Keith J. Bjerke, of North Dakota, to be a member of the Board of Directors of the Commodity Credit Corporation (S. Hearing 101-1247) |


102nd Congress |

1991 (1st Session) |
|

Feb 7, & 20 |
Futures Trading Practices Act of 1991 (S. 207, S. Hearing 102-218) |

Mar 5 |
Nomination of Edward R. Madigan, of Illinois, to be Secretary of Agriculture (S. Hearing 102-262) |

May 8 |
Fast Track Procedures for Agricultural Trade Negotiations (S. Hearing 102-397) |

May 15 |
Oversight on the Implementation of the Trade Title of the 1990 Farm Bill (S. Hearing 102-413) |

May 17 |
Nominations of Sheila C. Bair, of Kansas, to be a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for the term expiring April 13, 1994; and Joseph B. Dial, of Texas, to be a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for the term expiring June 19, 1996 (S. Hearing 102-389) |

May 21 |
Government-Sponsored Enterprises Reforms (S. Hearing 102-437) |

May 22 |
Milk Supply Reduction and Food Donation Act (S. 1098, S. Hearing 102-479) |

Jun 5 |
Circle of Poison: Impact of U.S. Pesticides on Third World Workers (S. Hearing 102-117) |

Jun 12 |
Nomination of Ann M. Veneman, of California, to be Deputy Secretary of Agriculture (S. Hearing 102-477) |

Jul 15 |
Joint Full Committee Hearing with Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry; Oversight on Forest Land Conservation and Related Economic Development within the Northern Forest Lands Study Area (Field Hearing in Lyndonville, Vermont and Bangor, Maine, S. Hearing 102-233) |

Jul 23 |
Disaster Assistance Legislation (S. 1251, S. 1441, And S. 1422, S. Hearing 102-549) |

Sep 20 |
Circle of Poison: Impact on American Concumers (S. Hearing 102-865) |

Oct 30 |
Agriculture and Food Assistance to the Soviet Union (S. Hearing 102-587) |

Nov 20 |
Jobs and Rural America (S. Hearing 102-623) |

Nov 22 |
Nominations of Charles R. Hilty, of Ohio, to be Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Administration; And Gary C. Byrne, of California, to be a Member of the Farm Credit Administration Board (S. Hearing 102-627) |

1992 (2nd Session) |
|

Mar 3 |
Oversight on the School Lunch Program (S. Hearing 102-623) |

Mar 25, Apr 8, & Jun 3 |
Oversight Hearings Concerning the U.S. Department of Agriculture (S. Hearing 102-746) |

May 20 |
Nominations of Duane C. Acker, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary for Science and Education; James B. Huff, Sr., of Mississippi, to be Administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration; Betty Jo Nelson, of Wisconsin, to be Assistant Secretary for Food and Consumer Services and a Member of the Board of Directors of the Commodity Credit Corporation; and Daniel A. Sumner, of North Carolina, to be Assistant Secretary for Economics and a Member of the Board of Directors of the Commodity Credit Corporation (S. Hearing 102-893) |

Jul 30 |
Cosmetic Standards and Pesticide Use on Fruits and Vegetables (S. Hearing 102-853) |


103rd Congress |

1993 (1st Session) |
|

Jan 14 |
Nomination of Mike Espy, of Mississippi, to be Secretary of Agriculture (S. Hearing 103-94) |

Apr 28 |
Nominations of Richard E. Rominger, Eugene Branstool, James R. Lyons, Bob J. Nash, and Wardell C. Townsend, Jr., (S. Hearing 103-127) |

May 11 |
Nominations of Eugene Moos, James S. Gilliland, and Ellen W. Haas (S. Hearing 103-201) |

May 25 |
Joint Hearing on Barriers to Participation in Food Stamp and Other Nutrition Programs of the Department of Agriculture by Persons Residing on Indian Lands, by the Agriculture Committee and the Select Committee on Indian Affairs (S. Hearing 103-189) |

Jun 21 |
National Dairy Summit (Field Hearing in York, Pennsylvania, S. Hearing 103-381) |

Jun 29 |
National Academy of Sciences Report on Pesticides and Children (S. Hearing 103-258) |

Jul 16 |
Flood and Disaster Relief in the Midwest (S. Hearing 103-197) |

Sep 21 |
How NAFTA will affect U.S. Agriculture (S. Hearing 103-465) |

Oct 6 |
Reorganizing the Department of Agriculture (S. Hearing 103-485) |

Nov 17 |
Nominations of Barbara Pederson Holum, John E. Tull, Anthony A. Williams, Michael V. Dunn, Wally B. Beyer, And Grant B. Buntrock (S. Hearing 103-518) |

1994 (2nd Session) |
|

Feb 2 |
Fraud in Federal Nutrition Programs (S. Hearing 103-640) |

Feb 8 |
Nomination of Frederick G. Slabach (S. Hearing 103-582) |

Mar 1, & May 16 |
Reauthorization of the Child Nutrition, School Lunch, and WIC Programs (S. 1614, S. Hearing 103-1040) |

Mar 16 |
Effect on Dairy Trade of the Self-Help Proposal (S. Hearing 103-833) |

Apr 13 |
Oversight of Disaster Assistance Programs (S. Hearing 103-669) |

Apr 20 |
GATT Agreement (S. Hearing 103-982) |

May 11 |
Crop Insurance Reform (S. 2095, S. Hearing 103-1050) |

Jun 9 |
Rural Health Care (S. Hearing 103-1059) |

Jun 20 |
Nominations of Mary Shapiro, Sheila Bair, Doyle Cook, Marilyn Peters, and Clyde Wheeler, Jr., (S. Hearing 103-1058) |

Jun 29 |
Reauthorization of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (S. 985, S. 1478, and S. 2050, S. Hearing 103-1064) |

Aug 5 |
Nominations of Jose Amador and Roger Viadero (S. Hearing 103-1062) |

Sep 29 |
Nomination of Marsha P. Martin (S. Hearing 103-1066) |


104th Congress |

1995 (1st Session) |
|

Jan 12 |
Business Meeting |

Jan 26 |
Reauthorization of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (S. Hearing 104-306) |

Feb 7 |
What Tax Policy Reforms will Help Strengthen American Agriculture (S. Hearing 104-224) |

Feb 14 |
What Regulatory Reforms will Help Strengthen Agriculture and Agribusiness? (S. Hearing 104-408) |

Mar 9 |
Farm Programs: "Are Americans Getting what they Pay For?" (S. Hearing 104-225) |

Mar 14 |
Conservation, Wetlands and Farm Policy (S. Hearing 104-359) |

Mar 16 |
Taxpayer's Stake in Federal Farm Policy (S. Hearing 104-348) |

Mar 21 |
Nomination of Daniel R. Glickman (S. Hearing 104-127) |

Mar 31 |
Agricultural Credit in the New Century (S. Hearing 104-364) |

Apr 4 |
Market Effects of the Federal Farm Policy (S. Hearing 104-365) |

Apr 24 |
1995 Farm Bill: Mid South (Field Hearing in Memphis, Tennessee) Not Printed. |

May 16 |
Rural Development and Credit (S. Hearing 104-390) |

May 16 |
Nominations of Eugene Branstool, and Karl Stauber (S. Hearing 104-595) |

May 23 |
Federal Nutrition Programs (S. Hearing 104-504) |

Jun 13 |
Commodity Policy (First Hearing) (S. Hearing 104-534) |

Jun 14 |
Welfare Reform Proposal Markup (S. 904) |

Jul 18 |
Farm Bill Titles Markup |

Aug 3 |
Nomination of Jill L. Long (S. Hearing 104-594) |

Aug 16, & 21 |
1995 Farm Bill (Field Hearings in Pocatello, Idaho, and Suffolk, Virginia) Not Printed. |

Sep 27 & 28 |
Budget Reconciliation Markup |

Sep 28 |
Ethanol, Clean Air and Farm Economy (S. Hearing 104-549) |

Oct 19 |
Nominations of Michael V. Dunn and John David Carlin (S. Hearing 104-591) |

1996 (2nd Session) |
|

May 15 |
Commodity Exchange Oversight (S. Hearing 104-596) |

May 21 |
Confirmation Hearing of Brooksley E. Born and David D. Spears (S. Hearing 104-790) |

Jun 5 |
Possible Changes to the Commodity Exchange Act (S. Hearing 104-808) |

Jun 12 |
Food Quality Protection Act (S. 1166, S. Hearing 104-779) |

Jul 24 |
Food Quality Protection Act Markup (S. 1166) |

Oct 2 |
Renewable Fuels in the Future Security of U.S. Energy Supplies (S. Hearing 104-826) |

Oct 3 |
Nomination of Velma Ann Jorgensen (S. Hearing 104-777) |


105th Congress |

1997 (1st Session) NOT FINAL |
|

Feb 11, & 13 |
Reform of the Commodity Exchange Act |

Jan 21 |
Business Meeting |

Feb 25 |
Impact of State Tax on Farmers |

Feb 26 |
Impact of Capital Gains Taxes on Farmers |

Mar 4 |
School Breakfast and School Lunch |

Mar 5 |
Review of the Strategic Planning and Management of Technology at the U.S. Department of Agriculture |

Mar 11, 13, 18, & 20 |
Agricultural Research Reauthorization |

Apr 10 |
Nomination of Velma Ann Jorgensen to the Farm Credit Administration Board and Lowell Lee Junkins to the Farmer Mac Board |

Apr 17 |
Federal Crop Insurance Program Oversight |

Jun 5 |
Contaminated Frozen Strawberries in School Lunches |

Jun 10 |
Budget Reconciliation Markup |

Jun 18 |
United States Agricultural Exports |

Jul 8 |
Rural Electric Loan Portfolio and Electricity Deregulation |

Jul 16 |
Energy Security and Agricultural Energy Issues |

Jul 22 |
EPA's Clean Air Regulation and Agriculture |

Jul 23 |
Nominations of Shirley R. Watkins to be Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Catherine E. O'Connor Woteki to be Under Secretary for Food Safety, U.S. Department of Agriculture; and August Schumacher, Jr., to be Under Secretary Designate, Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services, U.S. Department of Agriculture and Mr. I. Miley Gonzales to be Undersecretary of Agriculture for Research, Education and Economics. |

Jul 29 |
Price Volatility |

Jul 30 |
Agricultural Research Bill, Markup, Business Meeting |

Jul 31 |
Food Security in Africa |

Sep 4 |
Rural and Agricultural Credit Issues |

Sep 11, & 18 |
Implications of the Proposed Tobacco Settlement |

Oct 7 |
Nomination of Sally Thompson to be Chief Financial Officer and Joseph Dial to be a Commissioner, Commodity Futures Trading Commission |

Oct 8 |
Food Safety and Food Safety Regulations |

Nov 13 |
Renewable fuels and Greenhouse Gasses |

1998 (2nd Session) |
|

Mar 5 |
Global Warming/Kyoto Agreement |

Mar 10 |
Crop Insurance |

Mar 12, 17 |
Hearing on Child Nutrition Reauthorization |

Apr 2 |
Harkin Animal Waste bill |

Apr 23 |
Fraud and Abuse in Food Stamps Program |

Apr 30 |
Agricultural Transportation |

May 7 |
Oversight of Agricultural Trade Policies |

May 14 |
Review of USDA, CFTC, and FCA Year 2000 Compliance |

Jun 10 |
Review Livestock Issues |

Jul 22 |
Year 2000 Dilemma Relation to Agricultural Businesses |

Jul 29 |
USDA Progress in Downsizing and Consolidation |

Jul 30 |
CFTC Concept Release |

Jul 31 |
Nomination Hearing for Barbara Holum to be a Commissioner with CFTC; Jim Newsom to be a Commissioner with CFTC; Charles Rawls to be General Counsel with USDA; and Keith Kelly to be a member of the Board of Directors of the CCC |

Aug 13 |
Wheat Prices and Growers Issues (Field Hearing, Lewiston, Idaho) |

Sept 10 |
Nomination of Michael Reyna to Board of Directors for the Farm Credit Administration |

Sep 23 |
Examine State and Private Forestry Issues |