Emergency Farm Act

Summary

Emergency Farm Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to establish the price supports for each of the 1977 through 1981 crops of feed grains, cotton, peanuts, rice, tobacco, wheat, soybeans sugar, wool, mohair, milk and honey at 100 percent of parity, unless a majority of the producers of any such commodity, in a referendum, vote to exempt such commodity from such support price.

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Timeline

1. 19 January 1978

   Introduced

   Referred to House Committee on Agriculture.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 19 January 1978

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 19 January 1978

   Introduced

   Introduced in House

   Source: IntroReferral

Votes

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Versions

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Documents

1 official file

• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 19 January 1978

  Open at official source

Sponsors

• Rep. Davis, Mendel J. [D-SC-1] · D · Sponsor
• Del. Fauntroy, Walter E. [D-DC-At Large] · D · Cosponsor
• · hsag00 · Standing

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