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The making of the 1996 Farm Act /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schertz, Lyle P.
Other Authors: Doering, Otto C. (Otto Charles), 1940-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ames : Iowa State University Press, [1999]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
United States. > 1996 Farm Act > Legislative history.
Agricultural laws and legislation > United States > Legislative history.
Table of Contents:
  • Five early developments: April 1994 to April 1995
  • Getting serious about commodity legislation, May-August 1995
  • Searching for consensus in the Senate
  • The administration's restrained entry
  • The state of play as Congress recessed in August 1995
  • Counting votes in the fall of 1995
  • A wait and see season
  • Farm bill preliminaries nonetheless
  • Negotiations in the Senate
  • House approval of freedom to farm
  • At last, a farm commodity act
  • A future for farm commodity legislation
  • A primer on U.S. agricultural policy before 1996.