105th Congress / Bills / S 2159

Title

An original bill making appropriations for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1999, and for other purposes.

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Categories (What are categories?)

Actions and defenses | Administrative fees | Administrative procedure -- Department of Energy | Administrative remedies | Advice and consent of the Senate | Aged | Agricultural appropriations | Agricultural colleges -- Alabama | Agricultural conservation -- Mississippi | Agricultural cooperatives | Agricultural credit | Agricultural education | Agricultural experiment stations | Agricultural extension work | Agricultural insurance | Agricultural labor | Agricultural pests | Agricultural policies | Agricultural pollution | Agricultural price supports | Agricultural prices | Agricultural production | Agricultural research | Agricultural research -- Maine | Agricultural research -- New Hampshire | Agricultural research -- New York/State | Agricultural research -- Vermont | Agricultural statistics | Agricultural subsidies | Agricultural surpluses | Agriculture | Agriculture in foreign trade | Air pollution | Air pollution control | Airline passenger traffic | Alternative agriculture | Alternative crops | Alternative fuels | American agricultural assistance | American economic assistance | American investments | American military assistance | Animal diseases | Animal genetics | Animal pests | Animals | Antidumping | Apartment houses | Appropriations -- Commodity Futures Trading Commission | Appropriations -- Department of Agriculture | Appropriations -- Department of Health and Human Services | Appropriations -- Farm Credit Administration | Armed forces | Arms sales | Asthma | Authorization -- Department of Labor | Awards, medals, prizes | Bacteriology | Balance of trade | Beef | Biomass energy | Birds | Boats and boating | Boundaries | Boundaries -- Arizona | Boundaries -- California | Boundaries -- Latin America | Boundaries -- Mexico | Boundaries -- New Mexico | Boundaries -- Texas | Budgets | Building leases | Business | Business income tax | Capital gains tax | Census | Chief financial officers | Child labor | Child nutrition | Children | Chlorofluorocarbons | Citizen participation | Civil liberties | Civil rights | Clinics | Collective bargaining | Colorado River development | Commemorations | Commercialization | Commodity exchanges | Communications | Competitive bidding | Computers and government | Conferences | Congress | Congress and foreign policy | Congressional hearings | Congressional investigations | Congressional oversight | Congressional reporting requirements | Congressional veto | Congressional-Presidential relations | Consumer education | Consumers | Copyright | Copyright infringement | Cosmetics | Cost effectiveness | Countervailing duties | Criminal justice | Crop insurance | Cropland conversion program | Customs administration -- Fees | Customs unions | Dairy industry | Dairy products | Damages | Defective products | Defense policy | Deficit reduction | Deregulation | Developing countries | Diesel motor | Disaster loans | Disaster relief | Discrimination in employment | Dispute settlement | Distance education | Drainage | 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Federal office buildings | Federally-guaranteed loans | Finance | Financial statements | Fines (Penalties) | Fire fighters | Fire prevention | Fires | Flood damage prevention | Food | Food adulteration and inspection | Food contamination | Food relief | Food safety | Food stamp fraud | Food stamps | Foodborne diseases | Forced labor | Foreign aid | Foreign exchange | Foreign exchange rates | Foreign investments | Foreign policy | Foreign policy -- South Asia | Foreign service | Foreign trade promotion | Forest conservation | Forest ecology | Forest health | Forest management | Forest products | Forestry | Forestry education | Forestry research | Foundations | Free trade | Freedom of association | Fruit | Fruit trade | Fur trade | Gasoline tax | Genetic research | Government corporations | Government employees | Government information | Government lending | Government liability | Government ownership | Government paperwork | Government procurement | Government publicity | Government regulation | Government spending reductions | Government statistics | Government trust funds | Government vehicles | Grading (Agricultural products) | Grain inspection | Grain trade | Grants-in-aid | Grazing | Hazardous substances | Hazardous waste disposal | Hazardous waste site remediation | Health education | Health insurance | Health policy | High technology | Higher education | Hispanic Americans | Home repair and improvement | Honey | House rules and procedure | Housing | Human rights | Import quotas | Import relief | Import restrictions | Imports | Income tax | Indemnity | Independent regulatory commissions | Indian education | Indian lands | Infant formulas | Information technology | Infrastructure | Insect control | Insect pests | Inspectors general | Insurance premiums | Intellectual property | Interest | International affairs | International agencies | International competitiveness | International control of nuclear power | International environmental cooperation | International finance | International labor activities | International monetary system | International relief | Interstate relations | Irrigation | Job training | Labeling | Labor | Labor unions | Land transfers | Land use | Law | Law enforcement | Legislation | Legislative resolutions | Legumes | Liability for toxic substances pollution damages | Licenses | Limitation of actions | Livestock | Livestock industry | Marine engines | Market surveys | Marketing of farm produce | Marketing orders | Meat | Meat inspection | Mediation | Medical care | Medical economics | Medical instruments and apparatus | Medicine | Methyl bromide | Military education | Military training | Milk | Minorities | Minority education | Most favored nation principle | Motor vehicles | Names | Natural resources | Nonprofit organizations | Nontariff trade barriers | Nuclear exports | Nuclear fuels | Nuclear nonproliferation | Nuclear weapons -- India | Nuclear weapons -- Pakistan | Nuclear weapons tests | Nutrition | Nutrition and the aged | Occupational health and safety | Packaging | Passenger ships | Patent agreements | Patent infringement | Patent licenses | Patents | Personal income tax | Personnel management | Pest control | Pesticide residues in food | Pesticides | Plant diseases | Plant germplasm resources | Plant protection | Plant quarantine | Plants | Political persecution | Politics and government | Poor | Poor children | Poultry industry | Poultry inspection | President and foreign policy | Presidential appointments | Presidents | Prosecution | Public contracts | Punitive damages | Racial discrimination | Radioactive contamination of food | Reactor fuel reprocessing | Reciprocity | Relocation of federal installations | Rent subsidies | Rental housing | Reprogramming of appropriated funds | Research and development | Research centers -- West Virginia | Research grants | Reservoirs | Residential rehabilitation | Respiratory diseases | Restrictive trade practices | Revolving funds | Rice | Risk assessment | Risk management | Rural affairs | Rural economic development | Rural education | Rural electrification | Rural health | Rural housing | Rural poverty | Saline waters | Sanctions (International law) | Scholarships | School buses | School lunch program | Science policy | Self-employed | Semiconductors | Senate rules and procedure | Service industries | Sewage disposal | Sheep | Ships | Small business | Smoking | Social services | Soil conservation | Solid wastes | Sports | State and local government | State politics and government | State-sponsored terrorism | Subsidies | Sustainable agriculture | Sustainable forestry | Tariff | Tax deductions | Tax deferral | Tax exclusion | Tax exemption | Tax penalties | Tax returns | Taxation | Technological innovations | Technology | Technology transfer | Telecommunication | Telemedicine | Telephone | Temporary employment | Tobacco | Tobacco exports | Tobacco industry | Tobacco research | Trade | Trade -- Canada | Trade -- China | Trade -- East Asia | Trade -- Latin America | Trade -- Mexico | Trade adjustment assistance | Trade agreements | Trade negotiations -- Chile | Trade secrets | Trademarks | Transgenic animals | Transportation | Trees | Trucks | Trusts and trustees | User charges | Veterinary medicine | Warranties | Water conservation | Water resources | Water supply | Watershed management | Weapons systems | Weather | Welfare | Wetland conservation | Wholesale trade | WIC program | Women | Wood

Votes on this bill

Date	Chamber	Result	Vote
7/16/98	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 207: On the Amendment Harkin Amdt No. 3175; To provide funding for the Food Safety Initiative with an offset.
7/16/98	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 206: On the Amendment Grassley Amdt. No. 3172; To express the sense of the Senate concerning appropriate actions to be taken to alleviate the economic effect of low commodity prices.
7/15/98	Senate	Failed	Session 2, roll call 205: On the Motion to Table Motion to table Kerrey Amdt. No. 3161; To ensure the continued viability of livestock producers and the livestock industry in the United States.
7/15/98	Senate	Failed	Session 2, roll call 204: On the Motion to Table Motion to table Torricelli Amdt. No. 3160; To exclude the application of the amendment to certain countries.
7/15/98	Senate	Failed	Session 2, roll call 203: On the Motion to Table Motion to table Dodd Amdt. No. 3158; To exempt agricultural products, medicines and medical equipment from U.S. economic sanctions.
7/15/98	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 202: On the Motion to Table motion to table Bryan Amdt No. 3157; To eliminate funding for the market access program for fiscal year 1999.
7/15/98	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 201: On the Motion to Table motion to table Lugar Amdt No 3156; To provide a framework for consideration by the legislative and executive branches of unilateral economic sanctions in order to ensure coordination of United States policy with respect to trade, security, and human rights.
7/15/98	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 200: On the Motion to Table motion to table Daschle Amdt No. 3146; To provide a safety net for farmers and consumers.
7/14/98	Senate	Agreed to	Session 2, roll call 199: On the Amendment Daschle Amdt No. 3127; To express the sense of the Senate that emergency action is necessary to respond to the economic hardships facing agricultural producers and their communities.