Political Quotes

“This is an amendment that increases appropriations in the bill for the Agricultural Research Service and the Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service to fund additional agriculture research activities. It also increases the total appropriations for the Rural Community Advancement Program and earmarks funding for a community improvement project in Arkansas. It also adds a general provision to the bill to eliminate for fiscal year 1999 the surcharge on the administrative fee in excess of $50 per crop per county authorized by the Federal Crop Insurance Protection Act. The proposed changes will also place some enrollment limitations on the Wetlands Reserve Program. The amendment is designed to make available to the Crop Insurance Program additional funds that were contemplated by the agriculture research bill that was passed by the Senate and signed by the President earlier this year.”