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Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]

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Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 839 (97th)passed

An amendment stating that it is the sense of Congress that insured loans and guaranteed loans for industrial development also be available for facilities for the conversion of agricultural commodities into alcohol and hydrocarbons for use as motor fuel or other fuel, and that the Congress encourages the USDA to be more aggressive in pursuing opportunities to assist in the development of an alcohol fuels industry in the U.S. through the proper use of industrial development funds.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 337 (97th)passed

An amendment to require the Secretary of Agriculture to conduct a study of alternative marketing and pricing programs to assure the price paid by foreign purchasers for grain produced in the U.S. results in producers receiving an average amount for the grain that is not less than the average estimated domestic cost of production. This is to apply to wheat, soybeans, corn, and other feed grains. The domestic cost of production is to be determined from Department of Agriculture statistics and is to include the acquisition value of the land as the cost of land.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 477 (99th)passed

An amendment to require the Secretary to establish a pilot program during FY'86 to carry out barter and countertrade transactions where the Secretary acquires and holds strategic or other materials that the U.S. does not produce domestically in amounts sufficient for its requirements. The amendment lists priorities the Secretary must observe such as nations with food and currency reserve shortages. A report to Congress is required. It also lists countries and the commodities they need and can supply such as i) Zimbabwe, corn in exchange for chromium, ii) Zambia, corn in exchange for cobalt, iii) Nigeria, corn and rice in exchange for oil. It lists a total of six countires.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 179 (99th)passed

Amendments en bloc to Title VIII (Procurement Reform): 1) Requiring the Secretary of Defense to report to Congress on policies and actions taken to implement the report of the DOD Inspector General, "Review of Suspension and Debarment Activities Within the Department of Defense". 2) requiring the DOD Inspector General to assign an independent compliance officer to monitor and report on defense contractors debarred from contracts with DOD. 3) prohibiting officers or employees of defense contractors from working on or supervising defense contracts if they are under indictment for fraud or other felony arising out of DOD contracts, and if convicted from such work for up to five years.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 674 (101st)failed

An en bloc amendment, consisting of several amendments which would: Establish a target price of $4.50 per bushel for the first 15,000 bushels of wheat and a target price of $3.10 per bushel for the first 21,000 bushels of corn produced in any one year, eliminating all deficiency payments for production in excess of those amounts. The amendment strengthens the provisions of current law restricting deficiency payments to $50,000 per person in any year.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· HAMDTHAMDT 75 (102nd)passed

Amendment calls on the President to seek cost-sharing agreements with all nations with whom we have bilateral or multilateral defense pacts. It establishes an Allies Mutual Defense Payments Account to track how much our allies are actually contributing in cash or in kind to offset U.S. defense costs. It also requires classified and unclassified reports to Congress by the President on the success of his efforts to achieve cost-sharing agreements and contributions.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· SAMDTSAMDT 1564 (103rd)passed

Expressing the sense of the Senate that domestic producers should not be asked to continue to bear an unfair share of the Federal income tax burden compared to foreign-controlled competitors and that Congress should move to close tax loopholes that subsidize companies that move their plants outside the United States and that allow foreign corporations to do business in the United States and avoid paying their fair share of taxes.

United States · United States Congress

Amendment· SAMDTSAMDT 1897 (103rd)open

SAMDT 1897

United States · United States Congress