104th Congress / Bills / S 1541

Title

A bill to extend, reform, and improve agricultural commodity, trade, conservation, and other programs, and for other purposes.

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Categories (What are categories?)

Administrative fees | Administrative procedure | Adult education | Affiliated corporations | Agribusiness | Agricultural chemicals | Agricultural colleges | Agricultural cooperatives | Agricultural credit | Agricultural economics | Agricultural education | Agricultural estimating and reporting | Agricultural extension work | Agricultural insurance | Agricultural labor | Agricultural pests | Agricultural policies | Agricultural pollution | Agricultural price supports | Agricultural prices | Agricultural research | Agricultural surpluses | Agriculture | Agriculture in foreign trade | Air pollution | Air quality | Alcohol as fuel | Alternative agriculture | Alternative energy sources | Americans in foreign countries | Ammunition | Animal diseases | Animals | Appropriations | Aquaculture | Associations, institutions, etc. | Auditing | Authorization -- Department of Agriculture | Bank capital | Bank directors | Bank examination | Bank failures | Bank fraud | Bank loans | Bank mergers | Bank reserves | Banks and banking | Biomass energy | Block grants | Botanical gardens | Budgets | Business | Business records | Capital | Capital formation | Casualty insurance | Cemeteries and funerals | Census | Charities | Children | Cigarettes | Civil liberties | Collection of accounts | Colleges -- Alabama | Colleges -- District of Columbia | Colorado River development | Commemorations | Commercialization | Communications | Community development | Concessions | Congress | Congressional hearings | Congressional reporting requirements | Conservation of natural resources | Consumer education | Consumers | Continuing education | Corn | Corporation directors | Corporations | Cost effectiveness | Cotton | County politics and government | Criminal investigation | Criminal justice | Crop insurance | Cropland conversion program | Customs unions -- North America | Dairy industry | Debt agreements | Debtor and creditor | Deposit insurance | Depressed areas | Developing countries | Disaster relief | Dislocated workers | Dividends | Drug abuse | Easements | Economic policy | Ecosystem management | Education | Education of Indians | Educational exchanges | Educational facilities | Educational policy | Educational technology | Electric power plants | Electric power production | Electric power transmission | Electric utilities | Electronic funds transfers | Elementary and secondary education | Emblems | Emergency management | Eminent domain | Energy | Energy policy | Environmental protection | Environmental protection groups | Environmental research | Estuaries | Estuarine area conservation | Estuarine ecology | Estuarine pollution | European Union | Exchange of persons programs | Executive departments | Executive reorganization -- Department of the Interior | Explosives | Export credit | Family farms | Farm lands -- Florida | Farm manure | Farm produce | Farm production quotas | Farm tenancy | Farmers | Federal advisory bodies | Federal aid to health facilities | Federal aid to higher education | Federal aid to housing | Federal aid to Indians | Federal aid to medical research | Federal aid to research | Federal aid to water resources development | Federal reserve system | Federal-local relations | Federal-state relations | Federally-assisted loans | Federally-guaranteed loans | Feed grain program | Finance | Financial deregulation | Fines (Penalties) | Fire departments | Firearms | Fish culture | Fishery management | Flood control | Flood damage prevention | Food | Food industry | Food labeling -- Standards | Food relief | Food safety | Food stamp fraud | Food stamps -- American Samoa | Food stamps -- Puerto Rico | Food supply insurance | Foreclosure | Foreign aid | Foreign exchange | Foreign policy | Foreign service | Foreign trade | Foreign trade policy | Foreign trade promotion | Forest conservation | Forest management | Forest products | Forests | Foundations | Free enterprise | Free trade | Fruit | Fruit and fruit trade | Germplasm resources | Global warming | Goats | Golden parachutes | Government corporations | Government employees | Government information | Government internships | Government lending | Government liability | Government paperwork | Government procurement | Government service contracts | Government trust funds | Governmental investigations | Grants-in-aid | Grassland ecology | Grazing | Grocery trade | Habitat conservation -- Planning | Hazardous substances | Health education | Higher education | Horses | Housing | Humanities | Hydrocarbons | Import quotas | Import restrictions | Indemnity | Indian lands | Indians | Industrialization | Information services | Informers | Injunctions | Insurance premiums | Interactive media | Interest | Interest rates | International affairs | International finance | International relief | Irrigation | Job training | Labor | Lakes -- New York/State | Lakes -- Vermont | Land transfers -- Arkansas | Land use | Language and languages | Law | Legumes | Liability (Law) | Libraries | Licenses | Livestock | Lobbying | Lumber trade | Manpower training programs | Marine resources | Marketing of farm produce | Meat inspection | Medical care | Medicine | Methyl bromide | Milk | Minorities | Mortgage guaranty insurance | Mortgage loans | Mortgages | Motor vehicles | Names | Narcotic traffic | National forests | Natural resources | Nature conservation | Nongovernmental organizations | Nonprofit organizations | Nutrition | Occupational health and safety | Occupational retraining | Oilseeds | Options (Contract) | Overhead costs | Overtime | Packaging | Peanuts | Pesticide regulation | Pesticides | Plant genetics | Plant quarantine | Plumbing | Politics and government | Potable water | Poultry industry | Privatization | Produce trade | Product safety | Protection of animals | Public assistance programs | Public contracts | Public television | Public utilities | Quality of products | Range management | Real property | Referendum | Reforestation | Refuse and refuse disposal | Rental housing | Reprogramming of appropriated funds | Research and development | Research centers | Research grants | Restoration ecology | Restrictive trade practices | Revolving funds | Rice | Right-of-way | Risk management | Rural affairs | Rural conditions | Rural economic development | Rural education | Rural electrification | Rural housing | Rural public health | Sales promotion | Saline water conversion | Scholarships | Science policy | Secondary mortgage market | Seeds | Sharecropping | Sheep | Small business | Small farms | Social services | Soil conservation | Soil erosion | Solid wastes | Sorghum | State and local government | State laws | State politics and government | Stocks | Storage | Strategic planning | Subpoena | Sugar | Sugar and sugar trade -- Caribbean area | Sugar and sugar trade -- Philippines | Supreme Court decisions | Swine | Tariff | Technology | Technology assessment | Telecommunication | Telemedicine | Telephone | Tobacco | Tobacco industry | Trade -- East Asia | Trade -- Europe | Trade -- Latin America | Trade agreements -- Canada | Trade agreements -- Mexico | Trade negotiations | Transportation | Trees | Tropical forests | Trucks | Trusts and trustees | Underemployment | Unemployment | Urban affairs | Urban forestry | User charges | Usury | Variable rate mortgage loans | Vegetables | Vegetables and vegetable trade | Venture capital | Veterinary medicine | Vocational guidance | Volunteer workers | Waste water treatment -- Alaska | Water conservation | Water districts | Water pollution control | Water quality | Water resources | Water supply | Water treatment plants | Watershed management | Watershed management -- Maryland | Watershed management -- Pennsylvania | Watershed management -- Virginia | Weather forecasting | Welfare | Wetland conservation | Wetland restoration | Wetlands | Wheat | Wholesale trade | Wildlife conservation | Witnesses | Wool | Youth employment

Votes on this bill

Date	Chamber	Result	Vote
2/7/96	Senate	Passed	Session 2, roll call 19: On Passage of the Bill s.1541, as amended; Agricultural Market Transition Act of 1996
2/7/96	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 18: On the Amendment DASCHLE AMENDMENT NO. 3452; To amend the commodity payment provisions and for other purposes.
2/7/96	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 17: On the Amendment Dorgan amdt. no. 3451; To require farmers crops to receive federal payments.
2/7/96	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 16: On the Amendment gregg amendment no. 3450; To strike the section relating to the sugar program.
2/7/96	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 15: On the Amendment harkin amendment no. 3448; To amend the eligibility criteria for the Environmental Quality Incentive Program.
2/7/96	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 14: On the Amendment bryan amdt no. 3447; To provide that funds made available for the market promotion program under this Act may be used to provide cost-share assistance only to small businesses of Capper-Volstead cooperatives and to cap the market promotion program.
2/7/96	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 13: On the Motion to Table motion to table santorum amendment no. 3225; To provide farm program equity by reforming the peanut program.
2/7/96	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 12: On the Amendment harkin amendment No. 3446; To continue the farmer owned reserve.
2/7/96	Senate	Rejected	Session 2, roll call 11: On the Amendment Harkin amdt. no. 3445; To strike the section relating to the Commodity Credit Corporation interest rate.
2/7/96	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 10: On the Amendment kohl amdt no. 3442; To eliminate the provision granting consent to the Northeast Interstate Dairy Compact.