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January 6 - Agriculture Cabinet Nominee: Ann M. Veneman

January 20 - Confirmation Hearings Held on Other Bush Nominees

February 3 - Farm Report Urges Income Supplement

February 17 - Measure to Revamp Bankruptcy Law Heads for Action in House, Senate

March 3 - Agency by Agency: Where the Money Would Go

March 24 - House Budget Resolution Provides Leeway; Senate Talks of Rebating Part of '01 Surplus

March 24 - Nussle's Dueling Responsibilities

April 7 - Estate Tax Phaseout Passes House But May Be Scaled Back in Senate When Finance Panel Begins Work

April 28 - A Beneficial Harvest

April 28 - Biotech Foods:Trust Is On the Table

April 28 - Cultivating Confidence

April 28 - Hormone-Enhanced Dairy Production: A 7-Year Battle in the Marketplace

April 28 - The Origin of Engineered Food

May 5 - $79 Billion Boost for Agriculture Could Galvanize Farm Bill Renewal

May 19 - Agriculture: Pressure on the Margins

May 26 - Agriculture: Focus on Family Farms

May 26 - Spilled Milk in Vermont

June 9 - Agriculture Bill Would Spend Slightly More Than Bush Request, Reshuffle His Priorities

June 9 - Drug Records: Year's First Rider

June 16 - A Different Pork Fight

June 16 - Agriculture Spending Add-On Puts Fiscal Discipline to Early Test

June 23 - Divisions in House Over Size Of Agricultural Aid Package Presage Farm Bill Battles to Come

June 30 - Farmers Want More Aid Than House Offers

June 30 - House Agriculture Funding Bill Hangs Up Amid Renewed Debate Over Re-Importation of Drugs

June 30 - Push for 'Fast Track' Falters As Backers Fear Influence Of WTO on U.S. Farm Policy

July 7 - Farm Aid Disputes

July 7 - Farm Watch

July 7 - Getting Government Back Into the Farm Business

July 7 - Trade Negotiations May Constrain Farm-State Protection Plans

July 14 - Combest, Stenholm Unveil Proposal to Greatly Boost Crop Subsidies for Farmers

July 14 - House Passes Agriculture Spending Bill With Drug Re-Importation Language, Increases for Research and Farm Loans

July 21 - Agriculture Bill Heads for Senate Floor; Dorgan to Push Further Expansion Of Commerce With Cuba

July 21 - Partisan Stances Mold Fast-Track Debate, Hold Up Action on Jordan Trade Bill

July 21 - Rifts Over Price Supports and Conservation Will Complicate Work on Farm Bill

July 28 - House Committee Backs Farm Bill Boosting Subsidies for Primary Crops

July 28 - Senate Democrats Touch Off Fight In Voting to Tap Future Farm Aid Funds

August 4 - Both Parties Declare Political Victory As Senate Clears Farm Aid Bill

August 4 - Dairy Compact Withdrawn

September 1 - Farm Policy's Future Takes Shape In Chairmen's Disparate Visions

September 1 - The Past Four Farm Bills

September 8 - Wariness of Farm Bill's Long-Term Cost Could Set Tone for Budget Debates

September 22 - Administration Sees Conservation, Export Enhancement as Alternatives To Farm Subsidies Backed in House

October 6 - House Squares Off With Senate, Bush On Restructuring Farm Policy

October 6 - Senate Clears Bill to Allow Normal Trade Relations With Vietnam on Yearly Basis

October 20 - Will Cash Be Cropped if Farm Bill Stalls?

October 27 - Administration Asks Senate To Defer Farm Bill Until 2002, But Harkin Vows to Press Ahead

October 27 - Senate Passes Agriculture Spending Bill After Dropping Disputed Provisions On Cuba Sanctions, Drug Re-Importation

November 3 - Harkin Offers 'Balanced' Farm Bill Challenging House Subsidy Plan And Increasing Conservation Funds

November 10 - AGRICULTURE: Debate Over Subsidies vs. Conservation Continues to Plague Farm Bill

November 17 - Senate Farm Policy Bill: More Money, Modest Policy Changes

November 24 - POLITICS: N. Carolinas Clayton Says She Will Retire

December 1 - AGRICULTURE: Farm Bill Now Tops Senate Agenda But GOP Is Likely to Filibuster

December 1 - Vermont's Dairy Compact Fallback Plan Generates Broad Opposition

December 8 - Fear of Budget Constraints in 2002 Galvanizes Farm Bill Supporters

December 8 - Freshman Initiation: Putnam's Lonely 'No' Vote on Trade Bill

December 8 - Milk Provision Revisited

December 15 - Dairy Support Plan Reworked

December 15 - Farm Bill's Chances in Senate Fade As Republicans Maintain Filibuster

December 15 - House Bill Provisions

December 15 - With Bio-Terrorism Funds in Place, Will Powers and Policies Fall by the Wayside?

December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Agriculture Appropriations

December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Farm Aid

December 22 - 2001 Legislative Summary: Farm Bill Reauthorization

December 22 - Farm Groups' Intense Pressure Fails to Breach Partisan Walls

December 22 - House Key Vote: Farm Bill (Vote 366)

December 22 - Returning Issues

December 22 - Senate Key Vote: Farm Bill (Vote 273)