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January 6 - Stalemates of the Last Decade Haunt Agenda for 1990: Government and Commerce

January 20 - AGRICULTURE: Farmers Reap a Crop of Scorn From Anti-Chemical Forces

January 20 - Are 'Sodbusters' Failing?

January 20 - Power of the Earth

February 10 - Administration's Farm Plans Unveiled - Sort Of

February 24 - FOOD INSPECTION: Bill Gives FDA Nod To Oversee Fish

February 24 - Food Stamps Equal Hard Currency

February 24 - Logic Doesn't Always Apply To Multiyear Farm Bills

February 24 - Once a Free-Market Paradigm Soybeans Seek Place at Farm Table

March 3 - AGRICULTURE: House Panel Finally Agrees On Rural Development Bill

March 10 - SECTION NOTES: Agriculture Bills Passed by House

March 10 - SECTION NOTES: Beef Advertising Checkoffs Upheld

March 10 - SECTION NOTES: Target-Price Freeze In Lugar Farm Bill

March 17 - Agriculture and Conservation (chart)

March 17 - AGRICULTURE: Rural Initiative Runs Aground As House Votes Status Quo By David S. Cloud

March 17 - Environmentalists, Farmers Square Off on Farm Bill

March 17 - The Winter of Their Content: Farmers' 1990 Attitudes

March 24 - AGRICULTURE: House Passes Rural Initiative After Dealing with Rose

March 24 - Milk Plan Won't Go Down Easy In First Farm-Bill Session

March 24 - NUTRITION: Committee Approves Increases In Food Programs for Poor

March 31 - Generous Expansions Approved In Early Farm Bill Markups

March 31 - Marketing Loan: Farm Policy Solution Or Just a Subsidy Windfall?

March 31 - SECTION NOTES: Soybean Assessment Passed by House

April 7 - California-Bashing

April 7 - Farm Bill Dilemma Hits Home: Not Enough To Go Around

April 14 - AGRICULTURE: Senators Support Fowler Soil Bill

April 21 - House Panel's Sweet Deal Sets Stage for Sugar War

April 21 - Import Sugar Quotas (chart)

April 28 - Agricultural Semantics

April 28 - Farm Budget Obstacles Solved: Let Someone Else Handle It

April 28 - FORESTRY: State Export Ban Wins Panel OK

April 28 - HEALTH: Senate Committee Approves Nutrition-Labeling Bill

May 5 - CRP Gets CPR

May 5 - Farm Groups, Environmentalists Compromise on 'Swampbuster'

May 12 - AGRICULTURE: The Politics of '90 Farm Bill Revolve Around Budget

May 12 - Draining 'Swampbuster'

May 12 - FORESTRY: House Panels Move Log Export Deal

May 19 - AGRICULTURE: Farm Fight Looms in Senate As House Panel Backs Off

May 26 - AGRICULTURE: Senate Panel OKs Mandatory Fish Inspection Program

May 26 - Senior Members Defeat Plan To Increase Crop Prices

June 2 - Ferns, Farmworkers and Legal Aid

June 2 - Old Ways Don't Work Anymore For Farm-State Politicians

June 2 - Rural Troubleshooter

June 9 - $3.25 a Bushel

June 9 - Attacking the 'Circle of Poison' (chart)

June 9 - Farm-State Senators Prepare For Partisan Showdown

June 16 - AGRICULTURE: House Bill Attacks Water Subsidies

June 16 - FORESTRY: Senate Votes To Cut Tether On Logging in Tongass

June 16 - House Farm Bill Highlights

June 16 - House Panel Stays Course With 1990 Farm Bill

June 23 - Senate 'Prairie Populists' Lose As Panel Approves Farm Bill

June 30 - FOOD SAFETY: California's 'Big Green' Vote Puts Focus on Congress

June 30 - FOOD SAFETY: Turf Battle Stalls Fish Inspection

July 14 - Agriculture Appropriations (chart)

July 14 - AGRICULTURE/TRADE: Bill Would Renew PL 480 Food Aid

July 14 - APPROPRIATIONS: Whitten Cuts Crop Insurance; Food Stamps Get Big Boost

July 14 - Farm Bloc on the Defensive As Bills Move to Floor

July 14 - The Deep Roots of the Debate

July 21 - Agriculture Appropriations (chart)

July 21 - Animal-Rights Activists Find Themselves on Defensive

July 21 - Animal-Rights Incidents

July 21 - APPROPRIATIONS: Agriculture Cut No Quick Sale

July 21 - FOOD SAFETY: House Agriculture Approves Bill on Fish Inspection

July 21 - Senate Begins Farm Bill Debate Acceding to Budget Limits

July 21 - Sweetening the Pot

July 28 - House and Senate Resist Calls To Alter Course on Farm Bill

July 28 - The Doctor Is In

July 28 - Upstream Swim for Great Lakes Ports

August 4 - Veto Threats Greet Passage Of 5-Year Farm Measure

August 11 - AGRICULTURE: Gulf Crisis Shows Close Ties Between Food and Policy

August 18 - Government and Commerce: Major legislative actions of the 101st Congress

September 1 - U.S. Food Aid (chart)

September 1 - Who Should Get U.S. Food Aid? Congress Wants To Decide

September 15 - APPROPRIATIONS: Bill Would Ensure Crop Protection

September 15 - APPROPRIATIONS: Farm Bureau Leads the Lobby Against Legal Aid Lawyers

September 15 - FOOD SAFETY: Senate Would Let Agriculture Give Fish Stamp of Approval

September 15 - SECTION NOTES: Senate Seeks To Assist Winter-Wheat Farmers

September 22 - Agriculture Appropriations (chart)

September 22 - APPROPRIATIONS: Food Program Bill Gets Panel's Nod

September 22 - PROVISIONS: House and Senate Farm Bills

September 29 - AGRICULTURE: Large Operators Said To Reap Benefits of HOuse Farm Bill

September 29 - House to Environmentalists: No More

September 29 - SECTION NOTES: Agriculture Funding Bill Passed by Senate

October 6 - AGRICULTURE: Farm Bill Conference Stalls After Budget Is Rejected

October 6 - Proposed Agriculture Cuts (chart)

October 13 - Farm Bill Lumbers to a Finish As Conferees Consider Cuts

October 13 - House Fails To Override Textile Quota Veto

October 13 - Pesticides Circle Game

October 20 - Conferees Forced To Seek New Ideas in Farm Bill

October 20 - Fees on the Range

October 20 - Highlights of the Farm Bill From 1991 Through 1995

October 27 - AGRICULTURE: Senate Clears 1990 Farm Bill; Bush Signature Expected

October 27 - APPROPRIATIONS: Congress Clears Agriculture Bill

October 27 - FOOD SAFETY: House 'Surf and Turf' Fight Dooms Fish Inspection

November 3 - Agriculture Appropriations (chart)

November 3 - AGRICULTURE: Crop Insurance Is Preserved

November 3 - LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY: Government and Commerce

November 3 - SECTION NOTES: Animal Abuse Legislation Fails To Pass House

December 1 - PROVISIONS: 1990 Farm Bill

December 8 - NEW CHAIRMAN PROFILE: Rose May Now Be in a Position To Link Hill to Computer Age

December 15 - Bush Lifts Soviet Credit Ban To Ease Food Shortage

December 15 - GATT Negotiations Fall Silent Amid Export Subsidy Woes