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Campaign Diary by William Coit
Thursday, February 07, 2002I stand in opposition to the FARM BILL SECURITY ACT H.R.2646. It is corporate welfare. This bill provides for the continuation of agricultural programs through fiscal year 2011.
SUMMARY AS OF: 7/26/2001--Introduced. Agricultural Act of 2001 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, through crop year 2011, to: (1) make fixed decoupled payments and counter-cyclical payments to eligible producers; (2) make marketing assistance loans and loan deficiency payments to covered commodity producers; and (3) extend programs for milk and dairy products, sugar, and peanuts.
Amends specified agricultural Acts to extend the: (1) suspension of permanent price support authority; (2) farmland protection program; (3) conservation reserve program; (4) environmental quality incentives program; (5) food for progress program; (6) market access program; (7) export enhancement program; (8) foreign market development cooperator program; (9) export credit guarantee program; (10) P.L. 480 programs; (11) food stamp and related nutrition programs; (12) emergency food assistance program; (13) commodity supplemental food program; (14) surplus commodities to special nutrition project program; and (15) wildlife habitat incentives program.
Establishes the: (1) congressional hunger fellows program; and (2) forest land enhancement program; and (3) sustainable forestry outreach initiative; (4) community and private land fire assistance program; (5) tree assistance program; (6) hazardous fuels to energy grant program; (7) senior farmers' market nutrition program; (8) grassland reserve program; and (9) farmland stewardship program.
Revises and extends specified agricultural credit programs, rural development programs, and agricultural research programs.
Revises land-grant institution provisions and other specified educational, extension, and research program provisions.
Repeals certain agricultural activities and authorities.
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