Problems of Flue-cured Tobacco Farmers: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Agricultural Production, Marketing, and Stabilization of Prices of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, First Session, March 30, 1977U.S. Government Printing Office, 1977 - 71 pages |
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Page 34 - ... experience with the newly revised tobacco program is necessary before major change should be considered. In the meantime, if necessary, minor fine tuning of the law may be appropriate. The American Farm Bureau Federation's voting delegates adopted the following policy for 1983 relating to tobacco: "We support a tobacco program which provides that growers shall keep supply in line with demand in return for price support loans. "We support a tobacco loan program for each type of tobacco that results...
Page 11 - Mr. Chairman, this concludes our prepared statement. We will be glad to respond to any questions you or any member of the subcommittee may have.
Page 45 - At this point I would like to enter into the record a personal letter I received this morning from Mr.
Page 53 - I do make the point that we have granted the authority to do the very thing that we complain of. Now, I believe, I have made as many arguments on the floor of the Senate and the floor of the House against legislation in appropriation bills as any of us, but I just do not see the consistency of pointing our fingers at the administrator over here when we have written it into the law. Senator MCCARRAN. Excepting this, that we are in a peculiar position, in which the House of Representatives, the...
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