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1. H.R.148 : A bill to designate certain public lands in the State of Michigan as wilderness, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Kildee, Dale E. [MI-7] (introduced 1/6/1987)      Cosponsors (11)
Committees: House Agriculture; House Interior and Insular Affairs; Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
House Reports: 100-29 Part 1, 100-29 Part 2; Senate Reports: 100-206
Latest Major Action: 12/8/1987 Became Public Law No: 100-184.

2. H.R.1004 : A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain National Forest System lands to Unicoi County, Tennessee, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Quillen, James H. (Jimmy) [TN-1] (introduced 2/4/1987)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Agriculture; Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
House Reports: 100-87
Latest Major Action: 8/2/1988 Referred to Senate subcommittee. Status: Referred to Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.

3. H.R.1728 : A bill to amend the National School Lunch Act to provide for limited extension of alternative means of providing assistance under the school lunch program.
Sponsor: Rep Goodling, William F. [PA-19] (introduced 3/19/1987)      Cosponsors (2)
Committees: House Education and Labor; Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
House Reports: 100-37
Latest Major Action: 7/1/1987 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Agriculture. Provisions of measure incorporated into measure S. 305 ordered to be reported.

4. H.R.2399 : A bill to provide for study and research on the decline in United States forest productivity and to determine the effects of atmospheric pollutants on forest environments, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep de la Garza, E. [TX-15] (introduced 5/13/1987)      Cosponsors (21)
Committees: House Agriculture; Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
House Reports: 100-241
Latest Major Action: 10/24/1988 Became Public Law No: 100-521.

5. H.R.2401 : A bill to extend the authorization of the Renewable Resources Extension Act of 1978, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep de la Garza, E. [TX-15] (introduced 5/13/1987)      Cosponsors (8)
Committees: House Agriculture; Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
House Reports: 100-239
Latest Major Action: 1/5/1988 Became Public Law No: 100-231.

6. H.R.2486 : A bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to acquire certain private lands to be added to wilderness areas in the State of Texas.
Sponsor: Rep Wilson, Charles [TX-2] (introduced 5/20/1987)      Cosponsors (3)
Committees: House Interior and Insular Affairs; Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
House Reports: 100-343
Latest Major Action: 10/6/1987 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

7. H.R.2663 : A bill to authorize the establishment by the Secretary of Agriculture of a plant stress and water conservation research laboratory and program at Lubbock, Texas.
Sponsor: Rep Combest, Larry [TX-19] (introduced 6/11/1987)      Cosponsors (3)
Committees: House Agriculture; Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
House Reports: 100-240
Latest Major Action: 4/20/1988 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Agriculture. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.

8. H.R.2752 : A bill to encourage the use of program crop acreage for the purpose of creating game and wildlife habitats, feeding areas, and sanctuaries by protecting farm program crop base acreage and program payment yields.
Sponsor: Rep Marlenee, Ron [MT-2] (introduced 6/23/1987)      Cosponsors (11)
Committees: House Agriculture; Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
House Reports: 100-428
Latest Major Action: 4/5/1988 Referred to Senate subcommittee. Status: Referred to Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.

9. H.R.2835 : A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to release certain restrictions on a parcel of land located in Henderson, Tennessee.
Sponsor: Rep Sundquist, Don [TN-7] (introduced 6/29/1987)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Agriculture; Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
House Reports: 100-614
Latest Major Action: 10/18/1988 Became Public Law No: 100-498.

10. H.R.2878 : A bill to designate certain national forest system lands in the States of Virginia and West Virginia as wilderness areas.
Sponsor: Rep Olin, James R. [VA-6] (introduced 7/1/1987)      Cosponsors (9)
Committees: House Agriculture; House Interior and Insular Affairs; Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
House Reports: 100-367 Part 1, 100-367 Part 2
Latest Major Action: 6/7/1988 Became Public Law No: 100-326.

11. H.R.3030 : A bill to provide credit assistance to farmers, to strengthen the Farm Credit System, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep de la Garza, E. [TX-15] (introduced 7/28/1987)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Agriculture; House Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs; House Energy and Commerce; Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
House Reports: 100-295 Part 1; Latest Conference Report: 100-490
Latest Major Action: 1/6/1988 Became Public Law No: 100-233.

12. H.R.3093 : A bill to expand and improve the optional acreage diversion program for the 1988 crop of wheat.
Sponsor: Rep Glickman, Dan [KS-4] (introduced 8/4/1987)      Cosponsors (2)
Committees: House Agriculture; Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 11/30/1987 Referred to Senate subcommittee. Status: Referred to Subcommittee on Agricultural Production.

13. H.R.3108 : A bill to amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to extend for one year the term of the Scientific Advisory Panel under that Act.
Sponsor: Rep de la Garza, E. [TX-15] (introduced 8/5/1987)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Agriculture; Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 11/4/1987 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

14. H.R.3435 : A bill to provide that certain charitable donations, and payments for blood contributed, shall be excluded from income for purposes of the food stamp program and the AFDC program.
Sponsor: Rep Panetta, Leon [CA-16] (introduced 10/6/1987)      Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Agriculture; House Ways and Means; Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
House Reports: 100-478 Part 1
Latest Major Action: 1/5/1988 Became Public Law No: 100-232.

15. H.R.3492 : A bill entitled "The Rural Crisis Recovery Program of 1987".
Sponsor: Rep de la Garza, E. [TX-15] (introduced 10/15/1987)      Cosponsors (20)
Committees: House Agriculture; Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
House Reports: 100-379
Latest Major Action: 12/29/1987 Became Public Law No: 100-219.

16. H.R.3712 : A bill to designate the U.S. Livestock Insects Laboratory in Kerrville, Texas, as the "Knipling-Bushland Research Laboratory".
Sponsor: Rep de la Garza, E. [TX-15] (introduced 12/8/1987)      Cosponsors (13)
Committees: House Agriculture; Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
House Reports: 100-477
Latest Major Action: 12/23/1987 Became Public Law No: 100-208.

17. H.R.4123 : A bill to authorize appropriations to carry out the National Aquaculture Act of 1980 for fiscal years 1989, 1990, and 1991.
Sponsor: Rep Studds, Gerry E. [MA-10] (introduced 3/9/1988)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: House Merchant Marine and Fisheries; House Agriculture; Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
House Reports: 100-808 Part 1
Latest Major Action: 10/21/1988 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

18. H.R.4306 : A bill to amend the National School Lunch Act to require eligibility for free lunches to be based on the nonfarm income poverty guidelines prescribed by the Office of Management and Budget.
Sponsor: Rep Hawkins, Augustus F. [CA-29] (introduced 3/30/1988)      Cosponsors (7)
Committees: House Education and Labor; Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
House Reports: 100-606
Latest Major Action: 5/11/1988 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

19. H.R.4345 : A bill to amend the United States Grain Standards Act to extend through September 30, 1993, the authority contained in section 155 of the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1981 and Public Law 98-469 to charge and collect inspection and weighing fees, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Madigan, Edward R. [IL-15] (introduced 3/31/1988)      Cosponsors (5)
Committees: House Agriculture; Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
House Reports: 100-644
Latest Major Action: 10/24/1988 Became Public Law No: 100-518.

20. H.R.4615 : A bill to establish for the 1988 through 1990 crops of upland cotton an optional acreage diversion program.
Sponsor: Rep Huckaby, Thomas J. (Jerry) [LA-5] (introduced 5/17/1988)      Cosponsors (2)
Committees: House Agriculture; Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 8/2/1988 Referred to Senate subcommittee. Status: Referred to Subcommittee on Agricultural Production.

21. H.R.4694 : A bill to amend the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act to increase the statutory ceilings on license fees.
Sponsor: Rep de la Garza, E. [TX-15] (by request) (introduced 5/26/1988)      Cosponsors (5)
Committees: House Agriculture; Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
House Reports: 100-794
Latest Major Action: 8/22/1988 Became Public Law No: 100-414.

22. H.R.4936 : A bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture and other agency heads to enter into agreements with foreign fire organizations for assistance in wildfire protection.
Sponsor: Rep Volkmer, Harold L. [MO-9] (introduced 6/28/1988)      Cosponsors (8)
Committees: House Agriculture; House Foreign Affairs; House Interior and Insular Affairs; Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
House Reports: 100-1079 Part 1
Latest Major Action: 10/21/1988 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

23. H.R.4998 : A bill to amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to make technical corrections in the Family Independence Demonstration Project.
Sponsor: Rep Panetta, Leon [CA-16] (introduced 7/7/1988)      Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Agriculture; Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
House Reports: 100-840
Latest Major Action: 10/11/1988 Became Public Law No: 100-481.

24. H.R.5056 : A bill to authorize agricultural research programs, improve the operations of the National Agricultural Library, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep de la Garza, E. [TX-15] (introduced 7/14/1988)      Cosponsors (8)
Committees: House Agriculture; House Merchant Marine and Fisheries; Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
House Reports: 100-978 Part 1
Latest Major Action: 9/29/1988 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Received in the Senate and read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

25. H.R.5090 : A bill to implement the United States-Canada Free-Trade Agreement.
Sponsor: Rep Foley, Thomas S. [WA-5] (by request) (introduced 7/26/1988)      Cosponsors (1)
Committees: House Agriculture; House Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs; House Foreign Affairs; House Government Operations; House Energy and Commerce; House Interior and Insular Affairs; House Judiciary; House Ways and Means; Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs; Senate Energy and Natural Resources; Senate Finance; Senate Judiciary; Senate Governmental Affairs
House Reports: 100-816 Part 1, 100-816 Part 2, 100-816 Part 3, 100-816 Part 4, 100-816 Part 5, 100-816 Part 6, 100-816 Part 7, 100-816 Part 8; Senate Reports: 100-509
Latest Major Action: 9/28/1988 Became Public Law No: 100-449.

26. H.R.5325 : A bill to establish a commission to review and make recommendations for the improvement of the Federal crop insurance program.
Sponsor: Rep Jones, Ed [TN-8] (introduced 9/16/1988)      Cosponsors (40)
Committees: House Agriculture; Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 10/28/1988 Became Public Law No: 100-546.

27. S.RES.79 : An original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Sponsor: Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [VT] (introduced 1/21/1987)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Senate Rules and Administration
Latest Major Action: 1/21/1987 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Rules. Hearings held.

28. S.RES.284 : A resolution to express the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Agriculture should make advance deficiency payments for the 1988 crop of wheat, feed grains, upland cotton, and rice, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Dole, Robert J. [KS] (introduced 9/18/1987)      Cosponsors (17)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 9/18/1987 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

29. S.RES.304 : An original resolution to increase the amount allocated to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry by S. Res. 80 relating to committee funding for fiscal year 1988.
Sponsor: Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [VT] (introduced 10/27/1987)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Senate Rules and Administration
Senate Reports: 100-208, 100-229
Latest Major Action: 12/19/1987 Passed/agreed to in Senate. Status: Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 52-35. Record Vote No: 416.

30. S.RES.370 : An original resolution authorizing expenditures by the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Sponsor: Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [VT] (introduced 2/1/1988)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Senate Rules and Administration
Senate Reports: 100-281
Latest Major Action: 2/17/1988 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Rules. Ordered favorably reported an original resolution (S.Res. 381 ) in lieu of this measure.

31. S.RES.377 : A resolution to express the sense of the Senate regarding negotiations on a new long-term agreement on agricultural trade with the Soviet Union.
Sponsor: Sen Lugar, Richard G. [IN] (introduced 2/4/1988)      Cosponsors (25)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 3/31/1988 Passed/agreed to in Senate. Status: Resolution agreed to in Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Voice Vote.

32. S.RES.413 : A resolution to express the sense of the Senate that the Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program has been an effective means of distributing surplus commodities to needy Americans and should continue so long as sufficient surplus commodities remain in Government storage.
Sponsor: Sen Hatch, Orrin G. [UT] (introduced 4/19/1988)      Cosponsors (13)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 5/2/1988 Referred to Senate subcommittee. Status: Referred to Subcommittee on Nutrition and Investigations.

33. S.RES.512 : A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the Secretary of Agriculture should continue to administer the Export Enhancement Program.
Sponsor: Sen Melcher, John [MT] (introduced 10/21/1988)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 10/21/1988 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

34. S.36 : A bill to amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 with respect to third party payments for certain temporary housing.
Sponsor: Sen Moynihan, Daniel Patrick [NY] (introduced 1/6/1987)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 2/11/1987 Referred to Senate subcommittee. Status: Referred to Subcommittee on Nutrition and Investigations.

35. S.54 : A bill to make foreign nationals ineligible for certain agricultural program loans, payments, or benefits, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Pressler, Larry [SD] (introduced 1/6/1987)      Cosponsors (3)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 2/11/1987 Referred to Senate subcommittee. Status: Referred to Subcommittee on Agricultural Production.

36. S.57 : A bill to provide interest rate on agricultural loans; to provide for the repayment of certain Federal Financing Bank loans; and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Boren, David L. [OK] (introduced 1/6/1987)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 5/15/1987 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Considered by Subcommittee on Agricultural Credit.

37. S.64 : A bill to amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act to permit marketing orders to provide for paid advertising for Florida-grown strawberries.
Sponsor: Sen Chiles, Lawton [FL] (introduced 1/6/1987)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 7/1/1987 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Agriculture. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.

38. S.125 : A bill to provide for the improvement of the operations of the Foreign Agricultural Service.
Sponsor: Sen Melcher, John [MT] (introduced 1/6/1987)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 3/5/1987 Referred to Senate subcommittee. Status: Referred to Subcommittee on Nutrition and Investigations.

39. S.130 : A bill to require that imports of fresh ginger root meet all the requirements imposed on domestic fresh ginger root.
Sponsor: Sen Inouye, Daniel K. [HI] (introduced 1/6/1987)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 2/11/1987 Referred to Senate subcommittee. Status: Referred to Subcommittee on Domestic and Foreign Marketing.

40. S.138 : A bill to amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act and the Poultry Products Inspection Act to permit distribution of certain State-inspected meat and poultry products, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Inouye, Daniel K. [HI] (introduced 1/6/1987)      Cosponsors (2)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 6/18/1987 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Agriculture received executive comment from Agriculture Department. Favorable.

41. S.221 : A bill to establish within the Department of Agriculture an Office of Emergency Aid for Farm Families to provide grants to States for emergency services to farm families, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Riegle, Donald W., Jr. [MI] (introduced 1/6/1987)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 2/11/1987 Referred to Senate subcommittee. Status: Referred to Subcommittee on Rural Development, Electrification.

42. S.234 : A bill to increase the amount of capital available to financial institutions and other agricultural lenders for loans to farmers by providing a secondary market for farm mortgages through the establishment of a federally chartered corporation, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Cranston, Alan [CA] (introduced 1/6/1987)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 2/11/1987 Referred to Senate subcommittee. Status: Referred to Subcommittee on Agricultural Credit.

43. S.236 : A bill to amend the National School Lunch Act to improve the administration for the commodity distribution program, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Dole, Robert J. [KS] (introduced 1/6/1987)      Cosponsors (6)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 7/1/1987 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Agriculture. Provisions of measure incorporated into measure S. 305 ordered to be reported.

44. S.305 : A bill to amend the National School Lunch Act to improve the administration of the commodity distribution program, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [VT] (introduced 1/13/1987)      Cosponsors (24)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Senate Reports: 100-127
Latest Major Action: 8/5/1987 Senate floor actions. Status: Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent.

45. S.308 : A bill to amend the Agricultural Act of 1949 to provide certain agricultural program adjustments for soybeans, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Cochran, Thad [MS] (introduced 1/13/1987)      Cosponsors (3)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 7/16/1987 Referred to Senate subcommittee. Status: Referred to Subcommittee on Agricultural Production.

46. S.310 : A bill to amend the Export Administration Act of 1979 to promote the export of United States agricultural commodities and the products thereof, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Baucus, Max [MT] (introduced 1/14/1987)      Cosponsors (6)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 3/12/1987 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Subcommittee on Domestic and Foreign Marketing. Hearings held.

47. S.324 : A bill to revise the basis for computation of emergency compensation under the 1986 feed grains programs.
Sponsor: Sen Dole, Robert J. [KS] (introduced 1/20/1987)      Cosponsors (5)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 3/6/1987 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Agriculture requested executive comment from Agriculture Department.

48. S.334 : A bill amending the Food Security Act of 1985 to define alfalfa and other legumes as agricultural commodities under the conservation title of the Act.
Sponsor: Sen Pressler, Larry [SD] (introduced 1/20/1987)      Cosponsors (4)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 7/16/1987 Referred to Senate subcommittee. Status: Referred to Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry.

49. S.341 : A bill to provide emergency assistance to certain agricultural producers and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Boren, David L. [OK] (introduced 1/20/1987)      Cosponsors (1)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; House Agriculture
Latest Major Action: 2/24/1987 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

50. S.398 : A bill to amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to permit Federal agencies to use pesticides without duplicating the research or analyses of the Environmental Protection Agency under that Act.
Sponsor: Sen Symms, Steven D. [ID] (introduced 1/28/1987)      Cosponsors (1)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 1/28/1987 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

51. S.405 : A bill disapproving the proposed deferral of budget authority for the temporary emergency food assistance program.
Sponsor: Sen McCain, John [AZ] (introduced 1/28/1987)      Cosponsors (8)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Senate Appropriations; Senate Budget
Latest Major Action: 3/3/1987 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Referred jointly to the Committees on Appropriations; Budget pursuant to the order of November 30, 1975, as modified by the order of April 11, 1986.

52. S.410 : A bill to amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to extend the date for submitting the report required by the National Commission on Dairy Policy.
Sponsor: Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [VT] (introduced 1/29/1987)      Cosponsors (3)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 4/21/1987 Senate floor actions. Status: Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent.

53. S.427 : A bill to amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to create a secondary market for sound mortgages secured by farm real estate and guaranteed by the Farmers Home Administration, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Grassley, Chuck [IA] (introduced 2/2/1987)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 2/18/1987 Referred to Senate subcommittee. Status: Referred to Subcommittee on Agricultural Credit.

54. S.461 : A bill to prohibit the implementation of certain regulations of the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of Agriculture respecting irradiated foods, to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prescribe labels for irradiated food, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Mitchell, George J. [ME] (introduced 2/4/1987)      Cosponsors (10)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 5/14/1987 Referred to Senate subcommittee. Status: Referred to Subcommittee on Agricultural Research, Gen. Leg.

55. S.463 : A bill to amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit borrowers to use the same collateral to secure two or more direct or guaranteed real estate loans.
Sponsor: Sen Ford, Wendell H. [KY] (introduced 2/4/1987)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 3/6/1987 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Agriculture requested executive comment from Agriculture Department.

56. S.480 : A bill to amend the Agricultural Act of 1949 to provide that a producer's 1987 crop of oats on a farm may exceed the permitted acreage base and the producer may be eligible to participate in the annual farm program for corn and grain sorghums for such crop year.
Sponsor: Sen Grassley, Chuck [IA] (introduced 2/5/1987)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 2/24/1987 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Agriculture requested executive comment from Agriculture Department.

57. S.488 : A bill to amend agricultural laws of the United States to improve United States agricultural exports.
Sponsor: Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [VT] (introduced 2/5/1987)      Cosponsors (8)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 3/5/1987 Referred to Senate subcommittee. Status: Referred to Subcommittee on Domestic and Foreign Marketing.

58. S.505 : A bill to amend the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to promote the economic vitality of rural America by directing the resources of the Rural Electrification Administration toward rural consumers, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Humphrey, Gordon J. [NH] (introduced 2/5/1987)      Cosponsors (3)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 2/18/1987 Referred to Senate subcommittee. Status: Referred to Subcommittee on Rural Development, Electrification.

59. S.512 : A bill to promote the export of United States agricultural commodities and the products thereof, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [VT] (introduced 2/5/1987)      Cosponsors (4)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Senate Reports: 100-77
Latest Major Action: 9/20/1988 Senate floor actions. Status: Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent.

60. S.515 : A bill to provide equitable treatment under the highly-erodible land conservation provisions of the Food Security Act of 1985 to farmers who produced alfalfa and other multi-year grasses and legumes in a rotation practice during each of the years 1981 through 1985.
Sponsor: Sen Zorinsky, Edward [NE] (introduced 2/5/1987)      Cosponsors (13)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 3/4/1987 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Agriculture. Provisions of measure incorporated into measure S. 410 ordered to be reported.

61. S.525 : A bill to amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to streamline the procedure for use of conservation plans to comply with the prohibition on production on highly erodible lands, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen McConnell, Mitch [KY] (introduced 2/17/1987)      Cosponsors (1)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 2/17/1987 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

62. S.658 : A bill to provide price and income protection to family farmers through the management of the supply of the 1988 through 2000 crops of certain agricultural commodities, to enhance the ability of eligible farm borrowers of qualifying states and the farm creditors of such borrowers to restructure farm loans, to provide grants to states to assist persons leaving farming, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Harkin, Tom [IA] (introduced 3/6/1987)      Cosponsors (3)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 7/16/1987 Referred to Senate subcommittee. Status: Referred to Subcommittee on Agricultural Production.

63. S.659 : A bill to establish agricultural aid and trade missions to assist foreign countries to participate in United States agricultural aid and trade programs, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Melcher, John [MT] (introduced 3/6/1987)      Cosponsors (4)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; House Agriculture; House Foreign Affairs
Senate Reports: 100-33 House Reports: 100-939 Part 1
Latest Major Action: 10/25/1988 Became Public Law No: 100-532.

64. S.662 : A bill to amend the Agricultural Act of 1949 to mandate markerting loans for the 1987 through 1990 crops of wheat and feed grains, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Baucus, Max [MT] (introduced 3/6/1987)      Cosponsors (1)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 4/16/1987 Referred to Senate subcommittee. Status: Referred to Subcommittee on Agricultural Production.

65. S.671 : A bill to amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to provide that if the Secretary of Agriculture creates a bonus rental incentive with respect to the placing of land used to produce a commodity into the conservation reserve, all previous contracts for placing land producing that commodity into the reserve must be renegotiated to provide the same increase in rental.
Sponsor: Sen Grassley, Chuck [IA] (introduced 3/6/1987)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 5/14/1987 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Agriculture. Rereferred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry following subcommittee reorganization.

66. S.674 : A bill to amend the definition of the term producer in section 3 of the Beef Research and Information Act.
Sponsor: Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [VT] (introduced 3/6/1987)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 3/6/1987 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

67. S.681 : A bill to amend the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to permit the prepayment of Federal financing bank loans made to rural electrification and telephone systems, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Exon, J. James [NE] (introduced 3/6/1987)      Cosponsors (2)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 4/16/1987 Referred to Senate subcommittee. Status: Referred to Subcommittee on Rural Development, Electrification.

68. S.697 : A bill to amend the Agricultural Act of 1949 to suspend the application of minimum planting requirements to agricultural producers whose acreage is subject to flooding in the 1987 crop year as a result of damage to levees from flooding that occurred in 1986.
Sponsor: Sen Danforth, John C. [MO] (introduced 3/10/1987)      Cosponsors (1)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 3/10/1987 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

69. S.728 : A bill to improve the nutrition of the homeless, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [VT] (introduced 3/12/1987)      Cosponsors (7)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 4/9/1987 Senate floor actions. Status: Senate passed companion measure H.R. 558 in lieu of this measure by Voice Vote.

70. S.733 : A bill to amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to provide an exemption from the prohibition on the production of agricultural commodities on converted wetland for land that was used to produce agricultural commodities during at least 3 of the 5 crop years preceding the date of enactment of such Act.
Sponsor: Sen Durenberger, Dave [MN] (introduced 3/12/1987)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 5/14/1987 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Agriculture. Rereferred to the Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry following subcommittee reorganization.

71. S.746 : A bill to amend the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to permit applicants to file abbreviated applications for registration of pesticides or new uses of pesticides under certain circumstances, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Kassebaum, Nancy Landon [KS] (introduced 3/13/1987)      Cosponsors (3)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 3/13/1987 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

72. S.755 : A bill to amend the Agricultural Act of 1949 to suspend the minimum planting requirement for the 1987 crop of certain agricultural commodities, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Boschwitz, Rudy [MN] (introduced 3/17/1987)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 4/16/1987 Referred to Senate subcommittee. Status: Referred to Subcommittee on Agricultural Production.

73. S.781 : A bill to provide for the reduction of the surplus supply of certain agricultural commodities, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Exon, J. James [NE] (introduced 3/19/1987)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 4/16/1987 Referred to Senate subcommittee. Status: Referred to Subcommittee on Agricultural Production.

74. S.812 : A bill to amend the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to provide urgent relief to improve the nutrition of the homeless, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Byrd, Robert C. [WV] (introduced 3/23/1987)      Cosponsors (24)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 4/2/1987 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Subcommittee on Nutrition and Investigation. Hearings held.

75. S.835 : A bill to improve the safety of imported raw agricultural commodities produced with pesticides, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Wilson, Pete [CA] (introduced 3/25/1987)      Cosponsors (3)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 3/25/1987 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

76. S.845 : A bill entitled the "Rural Area Revitalization Act of 1987".
Sponsor: Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [VT] (introduced 3/25/1987)      Cosponsors (21)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 3/25/1987 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

77. S.847 : A bill to amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to provide the opportunity for farmers in areas affected by natural disasters to defer the payment of principal and interest due on FmHA loans.
Sponsor: Sen Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [DE] (introduced 3/26/1987)      Cosponsors (2)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 4/16/1987 Referred to Senate subcommittee. Status: Referred to Subcommittee on Agricultural Credit.

78. S.848 : A bill to amend the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to provide a secondary market for agricultural mortgages, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Exon, J. James [NE] (introduced 3/26/1987)      Cosponsors (1)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 4/16/1987 Referred to Senate subcommittee. Status: Referred to Subcommittee on Agricultural Credit.

79. S.856 : A bill to amend the Food Security Act of 1985 to clarify that certain persons should not be denied status as separate persons under such Act, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Nickles, Don [OK] (introduced 3/26/1987)      Cosponsors (6)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 3/26/1987 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

80. S.868 : A bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Commerce to conduct a joint study of commodities and products that may be produced and marketed in conjunction with the production of tobacco.
Sponsor: Sen Ford, Wendell H. [KY] (introduced 3/27/1987)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 7/16/1987 Referred to Senate subcommittee. Status: Referred to Subcommittee on Agricultural Production.

81. S.902 : A bill to amend the Food Security Act of 1985 and the National School Lunch Act to extend to 1992 the eligibility of certain school districts to receive alternative forms of assistance for school lunch programs and to amend the Agriculture and Food Act of 1981, the Child Nutrition Amendments of 1986, and the School Lunch and Child Nutrition Amendments of 1986 to extend to 1992 the national donated commodity processing program.
Sponsor: Sen McClure, James A. [ID] (introduced 4/2/1987)      Cosponsors (17)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 7/1/1987 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Agriculture. Provisions of measure incorporated into measure S. 305 ordered to be reported.

82. S.912 : A bill to amend the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to permit the prepayment of Federal financing bank loans made to rural electrification and telephone systems, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Exon, J. James [NE] (introduced 4/3/1987)      Cosponsors (47)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 4/16/1987 Referred to Senate subcommittee. Status: Referred to Subcommittee on Rural Development, Electrification.

83. S.970 : An act to authorize a research program for the modification of plants and plant materials, focusing on the development and production of new marketable industrial and commercial products, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Harkin, Tom [IA] (introduced 4/9/1987)      Cosponsors (20)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; House Agriculture
Senate Reports: 100-122
Latest Major Action: 12/15/1987 House committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Subcommittee Hearings Held.

84. S.1000 : A bill to improve the operation of the sugar price support program and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Helms, Jesse [NC] (by request) (introduced 4/9/1987)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 4/16/1987 Referred to Senate subcommittee. Status: Referred to Subcommittee on Agricultural Production.

85. S.1013 : A bill to amend the Farm Credit Act of 1971, as amended, to extend authority for financing cooperative exports and imports.
Sponsor: Sen Boren, David L. [OK] (introduced 4/10/1987)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 4/16/1987 Referred to Senate subcommittee. Status: Referred to Subcommittee on Agricultural Credit.

86. S.1036 : A bill to designate certain public lands in the State of Michigan as wilderness, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Levin, Carl [MI] (introduced 4/10/1987)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 10/19/1987 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Agriculture. Ordered favorably reported H.R. 148 in lieu of this measure.

87. S.1122 : A bill to amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act to impose reciprocal inspection requirements for imported meat articles under certain conditions, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Daschle, Thomas A. [SD] (introduced 5/1/1987)      Cosponsors (2)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 5/1/1987 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

88. S.1137 : A bill to require implementation of a marketing loan program for agricultural commodities if negotiations fail to produce an international agreement on agricultural trade.
Sponsor: Sen Danforth, John C. [MO] (introduced 5/5/1987)      Cosponsors (8)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 5/5/1987 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

89. S.1147 : A bill to amend the Farm Credit Act of 1971 and the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to provide debt restructuring assistance to farm borrowers while minimizing losses of the Farm Credit System and the Farmers Home Administration, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Nickles, Don [OK] (introduced 5/6/1987)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 5/27/1987 Referred to Senate subcommittee. Status: Referred to Subcommittee on Agricultural Credit.

90. S.1156 : A bill to amend the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to provide Farm Credit System stockholder/borrowers with a multi-point program of relief and reform, and to assure the long-term health and stability of Farm Credit banks and associations through local control.
Sponsor: Sen Pryor, David H. [AR] (introduced 5/6/1987)      Cosponsors (7)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 11/4/1987 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Agriculture. Provisions of measure incorporated into measure S. 1665 ordered to be reported.

91. S.1172 : A bill to amend the Farm Credit Act of 1971 to provide a secondary market for agricultural mortgages, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Pryor, David H. [AR] (introduced 5/8/1987)      Cosponsors (16)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 5/27/1987 Referred to Senate subcommittee. Status: Referred to Subcommittee on Agricultural Credit.

92. S.1179 : A bill to amend the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to improve the administration of Farmers Home Administration loans, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Conrad, Kent [ND] (introduced 5/8/1987)      Cosponsors (8)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 6/9/1987 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Agriculture. Hearings held.

93. S.1190 : A bill to recover costs of providing services to farmer cooperatives and groups of producers.
Sponsor: Sen Lugar, Richard G. [IN] (introduced 5/12/1987)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 5/12/1987 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

94. S.1191 : A bill to amend the Plant Variety Act to provide for the credit of fees collected to the account that incurs the cost of carrying out the Act.
Sponsor: Sen Lugar, Richard G. [IN] (introduced 5/12/1987)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 5/12/1987 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

95. S.1192 : A bill to recover costs of establishing standards and specifications for agricultural products.
Sponsor: Sen Lugar, Richard G. [IN] (introduced 5/12/1987)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 5/12/1987 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

96. S.1218 : A bill to require that any imported food be labeled to specify the country of origin.
Sponsor: Sen Exon, J. James [NE] (introduced 5/15/1987)      Cosponsors (4)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 7/16/1987 Referred to Senate subcommittee. Status: Referred to Subcommittee on Domestic and Foreign Marketing.

97. S.1219 : A bill to assure farmers, ranchers and their cooperatives that the value of their stock in Farm Credit System institutions is protected, to restore System institutions to economic viability and competitiveness for the benefit of U.S. agriculture, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [VT] (by request) (introduced 5/15/1987)      Cosponsors (1)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 11/4/1987 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Agriculture. Provisions of measure incorporated into measure S. 1665 ordered to be reported.

98. S.1232 : A bill to amend the Agricultural Act of 1949 to make Commodity Credit Corporation stocks available to promote the production of liquid fuels, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Exon, J. James [NE] (introduced 5/19/1987)      Cosponsors (1)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 5/19/1987 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

99. S.1279 : A bill to extend the Renewable Resources Extension Act of 1978.
Sponsor: Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [VT] (introduced 5/27/1987)      Cosponsors (12)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 5/27/1987 Referred to Senate committee. Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture.

100. S.1287 : A bill to provide interim relief to the Farm Credit System, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Daschle, Thomas A. [SD] (introduced 5/28/1987)      Cosponsors (None)
Committees: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Latest Major Action: 11/4/1987 Senate committee/subcommittee actions. Status: Committee on Agriculture. Provisions of measure incorporated into measure S. 1665 ordered to be reported.

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