The Senate on Tuesday afternoon began working through over 70 different amendments and motions to a major farm policy bill, all part of a bipartisan agreement designed to push the Farm Bill through the Senate this week.
Just like a program at a baseball game to keep score, here is the list of amendments and motions in order under this Farm Bill agreement:
· Akaka amendment to improve a provision relating to loans to chasers of highly fractionated land. (#2440)
· Snowe amendment to require Federal milk marketing order reform. (#2190)
· Akaka amendment to establish the Office of Tribal Relations in the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture. (#2396)
· Ayotte amendment to improve the program of value-added agricultural producer grants. (#2192)
· Baucus amendment to improve the livestock forage disaster program. (#2429)
· Collins amendment to require the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a study of the implications of Federal milk marketing orders. (#2444)
· Bingaman amendment to provide targeted funding for practices to conserve surface water and groundwater. (#2364)
· Grassley amendment to provide payment limitations for marketing loan gains and loan deficiency payments. (#2167)
· Brown(OH)
amendment to strengthen rural communities and foster the next generation of farmers and ranchers. (#2445)
· Sessions amendment to limit categorical eligibility for the supplemental nutritional assistance program to those who receive cash assistance. (#2174)
· Cantwell amendment to encourage the purchase of pulse crop products for school meals programs. (#2370)
· Nelson (NE) amendment to ensure that performance bonus payments are used by State agencies only to carry out the supplemental nutrition assistance program. (#2243)
· Sessions amendment to end the State bonus payments for administering the supplemental nutrition assistance program. (#2172)
· Casey amendment to require more frequent dairy reporting. (#2238)
· Paul amendment to establish an average adjusted gross income limitation of $250,000 for all payments and benefits under the Farm Bill. (#2181)
· Coons amendment to provide for studies on the feasibility of establishing a business disruption insurance policy for poultry producers and a catastrophic event insurance policy for poultry producers. (#2426)
· Alexander amendment to provide that any cooperative organization or other entity that receives a business and industry direct or guaranteed loan for a wind energy project is ineligible for any other Federal benefit, assistance, or incentive for the project. (#2191)
· Feinstein amendment to modify a provision relating to conservation innovation grants and payments. (#2422)
· McCain amendment to repeal a duplicative program relating to inspection and degrading of catfish. (#2199)
· Feinstein amendment to require a study into the feasibility of an insurance product that covers food safety recalls. (#2309)
· Toomey amendment to eliminate the organic certification cost share assistance program. (#2217)
· Gillibrand amendment to strike a reduction in the supplemental nutrition assistance program and increase funding for the fresh fruit and vegetable program, with an offset that limits crop insurance reimbursements to providers. (#2156)
· DeMint amendment to maintain funding at current levels for programs providing access to broadband telecommunications services in rural areas. (#2263)
· Hagan amendment to require the Risk Management Agency and the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to use plain language and a website to make crop insurance more accessible. (#2366)
· DeMint amendment to express the sense of the Senate that nothing in this Act or an amendment made by this Act should manipulate prices or interfere with the free market. (#2262)
· Kerry amendment to extend eligibility for certain emergency loans to commercial fishermen. (#2187)
· DeMint amendment to prohibit the Secretary from making loan guarantees. (#2268)
· Landrieu amendment to move a section from the rural development title to the credit title. (#2321)
· DeMint amendment to prohibit mandatory or compulsory check off programs. (#2276)
· Manchin amendment to require national dietary guidelines for pregnant women and children from birth until the age of 2. (#2345)
· DeMint amendment to eliminate the authority of the Secretary to increase the amount of grants provided to eligible entities relating to providing access to broadband telecommunications services in rural areas. (#2273)
· Merkley amendment to require the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation to provide crop insurance for organic crops under similar terms and conditions to crop insurance provided for other crops. (#2382)
· Coburn amendment to reduce funding for the market access program and to prohibit the use of funds for reality television shows, wine tastings, animal spa products, and cat or dog food. (#2289)
· Schumer amendment to support State and tribal government efforts to promote research and education related to maple syrup production, natural resource sustainability in the maple syrup industry, market promotion of maple products, and greater access to lands containing maple trees for maple-sugaring activities, and for other purposes. (#2427)
· Coburn amendment to limit subsidies for millionaires. (#2293)
· Stabenow amendment to provide assistance for certain losses. (#2453)
· Kerry amendment to prohibit assistance to North Korea under title II of the Food for Peace Act unless the President issues a national interest waiver. (#2454)
· Kyl amendment to prohibit assistance to North Korea under title II of the Food for Peace Act. (#2354)
· Udall (CO) amendment to increase the amounts authorized to be appropriated for the designation of treatment areas. (#2295)
· Lee amendment to repeal the forest legacy program. (#2313)
· Warner amendment improve access to broadband telecommunication services in rural areas. (#2457)
· Lee amendment to repeal the conservation stewardship program and the conservation reserve program. (#2314)
· Wyden amendment to establish a pilot loan program to support healthy foods for the hungry. (#2442)
· Boozman amendment to support the dissemination of objective and scholarly agricultural and food law research and information. (#2355)
· Wyden amendment to modify a provision relating to purchases of locally produced foods. (#2388)
· Boozman amendment to provide for emergency food assistance, and for other purposes. (#2360)
· Leahy amendment to support the State Rural Development Partnership. (#2204)
· Toomey amendment to eliminate biorefinery, renewable chemical, and biobased product manufacturing assistance. (#2226)
· Nelson (NE) amendment to amend section 520 of the Housing Act of 1949 to revise the census data and population requirements for areas to be considered as rural areas for purposes of such Act. (#2242)
· Toomey amendment to reform the sugar program. (#2433)
· Klobuchar amendment to require the Secretary of Agriculture and Secretary of Transportation to conduct a study on rural transportation issues. (#2299)
· Lee motion to commit S. 3240 to the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee with instructions to report back forthwith with an amendment. · Carper amendment to modify a provision relating to high-priority research and extension initiatives. (#2287)
· Johnson(WI) motion to commit S. 3240 to the Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee with instructions to report back forthwith with an amendment. · Sanders amendment to improve the community wood energy program. (#2254)
· Chambliss amendment to establish highly erodible land and wetland conservation compliance requirements for the Federal crop insurance program. (#2438)
· Thune amendment to limit the amount of premium subsidy provided by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation on behalf of any person or legal entity with an average adjusted gross income in excess of $750,000, with a delayed application of the limitation until completion of a study on the effects of the limitation. (#2437)
· Durbin-Coburn amendment to limit the amount of premium subsidy provided by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation on behalf of any person or legal entity with an average adjusted gross income in excess of $750,000, with a delayed application of the limitation until completion of a study on the effects of the limitation. (#2439)
· Chambliss amendment to move the sugar import quota adjustment date forward in the crop year. (#2340)
· Chambliss amendment to repeal mandatory funding for the farmers market and local food promotion program. (#2432)
· Ayotte amendment to require a GAO report on crop insurance fraud. (#2195)
· Blunt amendment to assist military veterans in agricultural occupations. (#2246)
· Moran amendment to increase the minimum level of nonemergency food assistance. (#2403)
· Moran amendment to improve farm safety at the local level. (#2443)
· Vitter amendment to ensure that extras in film and television who bring personal, common domesticated household pets do not face unnecessary regulations. (#2363)
· Toomey amendment to reduce unnecessary paperwork burdens on community water systems. (#2247) Subject to a 60-vote affirmative threshold.
· Sanders amendment to permit States to require that any food, beverage, or other edible product offered for sale have a label on indicating that the food, beverage, or other edible product contains a genetically engineered ingredient. (#2310) Subject to a 60-vote affirmative threshold.
· Coburn amendment to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to prohibit the use of public funds for political party conventions, and to provide for the return of previously distributed funds for deficit reduction. (#2214) Subject to a 60-vote affirmative threshold.
· Boxer side-by-side to Johanns amendment #2372. (#2456) Subject to a 60-vote affirmative threshold.
· Johanns amendment to prohibit the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from conducting aerial surveillance to inspect agricultural operations or to record images of agricultural operations. (#2372) Subject to a 60-vote affirmative threshold.
· Murray amendment to require the Office of Management and Budget to submit a detailed report to Congress on effects of defense and nondefense budget sequestration for fiscal year 2013. (#2455) Subject to a 60-vote affirmative threshold.
· McCain amendment to require a report on the effects of the budget sequestration commencing in 2013 on the Department of Defense. (#2162) Subject to a 60-vote affirmative threshold.
· Rubio amendment to amend the National Labor Relations Act to permit employers to pay higher wages to their employees. (#2166) Subject to a 60-vote affirmative threshold.
