Senate Farm bill amendment lineup

On today's farm bill debate in the Senate. From the office of Sen. Tom Harkin:

Monday, December 10, 2007

• The Senate will convene at 3pm.

· No morning business.

· The Senate immediately will resume consideration of the Farm, Nutrition, and Bioenergy Act of 2007 (H.R. 2419).

· The following amendments are pending to this bill:

· Harkin-Chambliss-Baucus-Grassley amendment in the nature of a substitute (#3500)

o Dorgan-Grassley amendment to Harkin-Chambliss substitute #3500 to strengthen payment limitations and direct the savings to increase funding for certain programs. (#3695)

o Brown-Sununu amendment to Harkin-Chambliss substitute #3500 to increase funding for critical Farm Bill programs and improve crop insurance (#3819)

o Klobuchar amendment to Harkin-Chambliss substitute #3500 to improve the adjusted gross income limitation and use the savings to provide additional funding for certain programs and reduce the Federal deficit (#3810)

o Lugar-Lautenberg amendment to Harkin-Chambliss substitute #3500 relative to traditional payments and loans (#3711)

o Cornyn amendment to Harkin-Chambliss substitute #3500 to prevent duplicative payments for agricultural disaster assistance already covered by the Agricultural Disaster Relief Trust Fund (#3687)

o Coburn amendment to Harkin-Chambliss #3500 to ensure the priority of the farm bill remains farmers by eliminating wasteful Department of Agriculture spending on casinos, golf courses, junkets, cheese centers, and aging barns (#3807)

o Coburn amendment to Harkin-Chambliss substitute #3500 to limit the distribution to deceased individuals, and estates of those individuals, of certain agricultural payments (#3530)

o Coburn amendment to Harkin-Chambliss substitute #3500 to modify a provision relating to the Environmental Quality Incentive Program (#3632)

During Friday’s Session

Renewable Fuels, Consumer Protection, and Energy Efficiency Act of 2007 (H.R. 6)

Motion to invoke cloture on the motion to concur in the House amendments to the Senate amendments to H.R. 6 was not agreed to by a roll-call vote of 53-42.

Farm, Nutrition, and Bioenergy Act of 2007 (H.R. 2419)

The following amendments were withdrawn by unanimous consent:

· Dorgan-Grassley amendment to Harkin-Chambliss substitute #3500, to strengthen payment limitations and direct the savings to increased funding for certain programs (#3508)

o Reid second-degree amendment to Dorgan-Grassley amendment #3508, to change the enactment date (#3509)

• Reid amendment to change the enactment date (#3510)

o Reid second-degree amendment to Reid amendment #3510, to change the enactment date (#3511)

• Reid motion to commit H.R. 2419 to the Committee on Agriculture, with instructions to report back forthwith with Reid amendment to change the enactment date (#3512)

o Reid amendment to the instructions to the motion to commit (Reid amendment #3512), to change the enactment date (#3513)

o Reid second-degree amendment to Reid amendment #3513, to change the enactment date (#3514)