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sample farm bill letter and email addresses

Title: sample farm bill letter and email addresses
Hello,  

Here's a one-page letter I've drafted, based on Cindy's email. Feel free to use it yourself, but please make some changes to personalize it.

Also, below the sample letter is how to contact the senators.  If it reads "HART" next to their name, then they are probably not back in their offices yet, and you should use their email address only, usually provided through their website.  If they are not officed in the HART building, then I urge you to fax your letter AND email it NOW.

Save the stamp on regular mail. Several of their websites stated they are not yet allowed to receive mail due to the anthrax problems.

lee stone
Bastrop, TX

Senate Agricultural Committee Members
Faxes and Email Addresses

Tom Harkin, IA, Chairman  HART   (202) 224-9369 Fax  tom_harkin@harkin.senate.gov

Richard G. Lugar, IN, Ranking Republican Member  HART  no fax listed   email: senator_lugar@lugar.senate.gov

Patrick Leahy, VT   senator_leahy@leahy.senate.gov  no fax listed

Kent Conrad, ND   HART (202) 224-7776  Fax

Thomas A. Daschle, SD  HART   http://www.senate.gov/~daschle/webform.html

Max Baucus, Mt  HART   202) 228-3687  Fax  http://www.senate.gov/~baucus/EmailMax.htm

Blanche Lincoln, AR   HART   202) 228-1371  blanche_lincoln@lincoln.senate.gov

Zell Miller, GA    Fax: (202) 228-2090  http://miller.senate.gov/email.htm

Debbie Stabenow, MI  HART  senator@stabenow.senate.gov

E. Benjamin Nelson, NE    HART  (202) 228-0012  Fax   http://bennelson.senate.gov/email.html

Mark Dayton, MN   (202) 228-2186  Fax  http://dayton.senate.gov/webform.html

Paul Wellstone, MN  HART  http://www.senate.gov/~wellstone/webform.html

Jesse Helms, NC 202-228-1339    Fax  jesse_helms@helms.senate.gov

Thad Cochran, MS  202-224-2499   Fax senator@cochran.senate.gov

Mitch McConnell, KY   202-224-2499   Fax  senator@mcconnell.senate.gov

Pat Roberts, KS    HART   pat_roberts@roberts.senate.gov

Peter Fitzgerald, IL  senator_fitzgerald@fitzgerald.senate.gov  no fax

Craig Thomas, WY   HART   202-224-1724   Fax http://www.senate.gov/~thomas/html/contact.html

Wayne Allard, CO 202-224-6471   Fax  http://allard.senate.gov/contactme/index.cfm

Tim Hutchinson, AR   202) 228-3973   Fax http://www.senate.gov/~hutchinson/email.html

Mike Crapo, ID  202-228-1375    Fax  http://www.senate.gov/~crapo/email.htm


November 12, 2001

Dear Member of the Senate Agriculture Committee,

This year when a landowner bulldozed, burned, and sprayed a high-quality Iowa woodland with huge hickory trees and diverse wildflowers and when he was confronted by an angry neighbor,  he told her, "Lady, this is the new economics.  The government will pay me to plant rowcrops on this land for two years, and then I'll get paid to plant shrubs and put it in the Conservation Reserve Program."

This sort of stupidity must stop.  I support the CRP date-certain eligibility clause (Harkin bill).  This clause ensures that land which is put into rowcrops for the first time after the new Farm Bill is enacted would not be eligible for the CRP (Conservation Reserve Program).  Some landowners around the country are plowing prairies and bulldozing woodlands, getting crop support payments for putting that land in rowcrops for two years, and then getting paid again to enroll that land in the CRP.  This is utter nonsense.

I support the Grassland Reserve Program which will pay landowners, via easement, to protect virgin prairies.  The Reserve would help offset the current Farm Bill incentives to turn prairies into cornfields.

And I support Super Sodbuster which would make it much more difficult for landowners to tear up virgin prairies and still get crop support payments, crop insurance, and other Farm Bill payments on the rest of their land.  

Sincerely,
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