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FW: ACTION NEEDED -- Comprehensive, progressive Farm Bill budgetat risk

Title: FW: ACTION NEEDED -- Comprehensive, progressive Farm Bill budget at risk
FYI, for those interested in the new Farm Bill.  This forwarded email has all the contact information if you are interested in communicating anything about the Farm Bill to Congress.

lee stone
Bastrop, TX
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From: National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture <campaign@sustainableagriculture.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 11:16:46 -0500
To: (Recipient list suppressed)
Subject: URGENT ACTION NEEDED -- Comprehensive, progressive Farm Bill budget at risk!


NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE


P.O. Box 396, Pine Bush, NY  12566, (845) 744-8448, Fax: (845) 744-8477; email: Campaign@sustainableagriculture.net
www.SustainableAgriculture.net <http://www.sustainableagriculture.net/>

URGENT ACTION NEEDED!

(March 9, 2001 - April 9, 2001)

CONTACT BUDGET COMMITTEE MEMBERS TO SUPPORT A COMPREHENSIVE, PROGRESSIVE FARM BILL

OPPOSE ALL ATTEMPTS TO WRITE A COMMODITY PROGRAM-ONLY FARM BILL

Right now, the Budget Committees are writing a Budget Resolution that will govern spending decisions for the next several years. Pressure is mounting for a very substantial increase in the budget to as much as $20 billion per year for only farm commodity programs. If we don't speak out for substantial new funding for conservation, stewardship incentives, marketing alternatives, coop and business development, etc.,  in the forthcoming Budget Resolution, we may be stuck with a commodity program-only farm bill. To be able to move sustainable Farm Bill initiatives related to conservation, research, marketing, entrepreneurship, beginning farmers and ranchers, etc. in next year's farm bill, we need to help secure a multi-year budget plan that provides the resources to get those initiatives funded.


INSIST ON A BUDGET BASELINE THAT INCLUDES:
AGRICULTURAL AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT, RESEARCH, OUTREACH, CONSERVATION, AND FOOD AND NUTRITION PROGRAMS


Tell your Senator and Representative that:

1. You support a significant increase in the budget resolution for agriculture and for agricultural conservation and natural resource programs, but are opposed to an increase in the budget resolution that assumes the bulk of the funding is only for commodity programs. There are urgent needs related to research, business and co-op development, beginning farmers, civil rights, natural resource protection, and stewardship incentives that need to be a big part of the mix for Farm Bill spending. Tell members of Congress on the Budget Committee to keep all options open for farm bill consideration next year.

2.  For this year's agricultural appropriations bill, including any supplemental emergency appropriations for agriculture*, the budget needs to provide increases for critical conservation, credit, rural development, research and other needs.    * Note: another farm emergency spending bill -- called a "supplemental" or "emergency" appropriation -- is expected this year as has been the case each of the past three years.  

The budget resolution is expected to be voted on in the House and Senate Budget Committees and then on the House and Senate floor by the time Congress leaves for the Easter recess in early April. Committee action is likely before the end of March and drafting is already underway. So please call or write today!


(A  future action notice will discuss recommendations on programs for the Agricultural Appropriations subcommittee.)


Personalized, hard copy letters direct from constituents are most effective.  Please put the above points in your own words, and make sure your letter indicates how important these issues are to your community -- farm -- business.  See instructions and contact information below.



PLEASE WRITE OR CALL YOUR LEGISLATOR ON THE BUDGET COMMITTEE TODAY!


LOCATE YOUR STATE BELOW, AND WRITE OR CALL YOUR SENATOR AND/OR CONGRESSMEMBER.  [Please do NOT email a letter -- emails do not carry nearly as much weight!]

If your state is NOT listed below, please address your letters to the House and Senate Budget Committee Chairs:
Sen. Pete Domenici (NM) Ph: 202-224-6621      and    Rep. Jim Nussle,  (IA-2)  Ph: 202-225-2911        

To write to a:
Senator:  The Honorable__________, United States Senate, Washington, DC  20510
Representative:  The Honorable __________, United States House of Representatives, Washington, DC 20515


SENATE AND HOUSE BUDGET COMMITTEE MEMBERS

All phone numbers below are in the 202 area code.


CALIFORNIA      Rep. Gary Miller (CA-41) 225-3201       
              Rep. Mike Honda (CA-15) 225-2631        
              Rep. John Doolittle (CA-4) 225-2511

COLORADO        Sen. Wayne Allard (CO) 224-5941

FLORIDA Sen. Bill Nelson (FL) 224-5274,        
              Rep. Adam Putnam (FL-12) 225-1252
              Rep. Jim Davis (FL-11)  225-3376        

GEORGIA Rep. Mac Collins (GA-3) 225-5901        

ILLINOIS        Rep. Mark Kirk (IL-10) 225-4835
              Rep. Ray LaHood (IL-18) 225-6201

IOWA            Sen. Chuck Grassley (IA) 224-3744       
              Rep. Jim Nussle, Chair (IA-2) 225-2911  

KANSAS  Rep. Jim Ryun (KS-2) 225-6601   
              Rep. Dennis Moore (KS-3) 225-2865       

KENTUCKY        Rep. Ernie Fletcher (KY-6) 225-4706     

MAINE   Sen. Olympia Snowe (ME) 224-5344        

MARYLAND        Sen. Paul Sarbanes (MD) 224-4524        

MASSACHUSETTS   Rep. Michael Capuano (MA-8) 225-5111

MICHIGAN        Sen. Debbie Stabenow (MI) 224-4822      
              Rep. Peter Hoekstra (MI-2) 225-4401     

MINNESOTA       Rep. Gil Gutknecht (MN-1) 225-2472      

MISSISSIPPI  Rep. Bennie Thompson (MS-2) 225-5876       

MISSOURI        Sen. Christopher Bond (MO) 224-5721     

NEBRASKA        Sen. Charles Hagel (NE) 224-4224        

NEW HAMPSHIRE   Sen. Judd Gregg (NH) 224-3324   
                      Rep. John Sununu (NH-1) 225-5456
                      Rep. Charles Bass (NH-2) 225-5206       

NEW JERSEY      Rep. Rush Holt (NJ-12)  225-5801

NEW YORK        Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (NY) 224-4451       
              Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (NY-4)    225-5516

NEW MEXICO              Sen. Pete Domenici (NM) 224-6621

NORTH CAROLINA  Rep. Eva Clayton (NC-1) 225-3101        
                      Rep. David Price (NC-4) 225-1784

NORTH DAKOTA    Sen. Kent Conrad (ND) 224-2043  

OHIO            Rep. Rob Portman (OH-2) 225-3164        

OKLAHOMA        Sen. Don Nickles (OK) 224-5754

OREGON  Sen. Gordon Smith (OR) 224-3753
              Sen. Ron Wyden (OR) 224-5244    
              Rep. Darlene Hooley (OR-5) 225-5711     

PENNSYLVANIA    Rep. Pat Toomey (PA-15) 225-6411        
                      Rep. Joe Hoeffel (PA-13) 225-6111
      
OKLAHOMA        Rep. Wes Watkins (OK-3) 225-4565        

SOUTH CAROLINA  Sen. Ernest Hollings (SC) 224-6121      
                      Rep. Henry Brown (SC-1) 225-3176
                      Rep. John Spratt (SC-5) 225-5501        

SOUTH DAKOTA    Sen. Tim Johnson (SD) 224-5824  

TENNESSEE       Sen. William Frist (TN) 224-3344        
              Rep. Van Hilleary (TN-4) 225-6831
              Rep. Bob Clement (TN-5) 225-4311        

TEXAS   Sen. Phil Gramm (TX) 224-2934
              Rep. Mac Thornberry (TX-13) 225-3706    
              Rep. John Culberson (TX-7) 225-2571     
              Rep. Ken Bentsen (TX-25) 225-7508
              Rep. Kay Granger (TX-12) 225-5071

VIRGINIA        Rep. Ed Schrock (VA-2)  225-4215        
              Rep. James Moran (VA-8) 225-4376

WASHINGTON      Sen. Patty Murray (WA) 224-2621
              Rep. Doc Hastings (WA-4) 225-5816
              Rep. Jim McDermott (WA-7) 225-3106      

WEST VIRGINIA   Sen. Robert Byrd (WV) 224-3954  

WISCONSIN       Sen. Russell Feingold (WI) 224-5323
              Rep. Jerry Kleczka (WI-4) 225-4572              
              Rep. Tammy Baldwin (WI-2) 225-2906      

Please send the National Campaign a copy of your letter: Action401@sustainableagriculture.net




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