2008-10-01T00:00:00Z opencongress.org tag:opencongress.org,2007-01-01:/committee/197 tag:opencongress.org,2008-10-01:/action/176305 2008-10-01T00:00:00Z A bill to amend the Commodity Exchange Act to require the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to develop and impose aggregate position limits on certain large over-the-counter transactions and classes of large over-the-counter transactions.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2008-09-29:/action/176032 2008-09-29T00:00:00Z A bill to amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to provide for country of origin labeling for dairy products.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2008-09-27:/action/175581 2008-09-27T00:00:00Z A bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture to provide crop disaster assistance to agricultural producers that suffered qualifying quantity or quality losses for the 2008 crop year due to a natural disaster.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2008-09-26:/action/174803 2008-09-26T00:00:00Z A bill to require semiannual indexing of mandatory Federal food assistance programs.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2008-09-25:/action/173662 2008-09-25T00:00:00Z A bill to amend the Commodity Exchange Act to prevent excessive price speculation with respect to energy and agricultural commodities, and for other purposes.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2008-09-25:/action/173682 2008-09-25T00:00:00Z A bill to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to provide grants to hospitals and other nonprofit inpatient healthcare institutions, Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers, and other social service programs for the acquisition of local nutritious agricultural products.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2008-09-23:/action/172942 2008-09-23T00:00:00Z A bill to amend the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 to suspend a prohibition on payments to certain farms with limited base acres for the 2008 and 2009 crop years, to extend the signup for direct payments and counter-cyclical payments for the 2008 crop year, and for other purposes.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2008-09-18:/action/172315 2008-09-18T00:00:00Z A bill to amend the Animal Welfare Act to provide further protection for puppies.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2008-09-16:/action/171689 2008-09-16T00:00:00Z A bill to amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to decrease the period of benefit ineligibility of certain adults due to unemployment.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2008-09-11:/action/171105 2008-09-11T00:00:00Z A bill to amend the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to further the adoption of technologies developed by the Department of Agriculture, to encourage small business partnerships in the development of energy through biorefineries, and for other purposes.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2008-08-01:/action/168751 2008-08-01T00:00:00Z A bill to allow certain participants in the conservation reserve program to participate in the critical feed use program of the Secretary of Agriculture.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-31:/action/170376 2008-07-31T00:00:00Z A bill to amend the Beef Research and Information Act to allow the promotion of beef that is born and raised exclusively in the United States, allow the establishment of an importers qualified beef council to promote nondomestic beef, and to establish new referendum requirements.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-31:/action/170396 2008-07-31T00:00:00Z A bill to authorize the sale of certain National Forest System lands in the Superior National Forest in Minnesota.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-30:/action/168212 2008-07-30T00:00:00Z A resolution recognizing July 30 , 2008, as the 40th anniversary of the enactment of the resolution establishing the Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-25:/action/167473 2008-07-25T00:00:00Z A bill to require the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out conservation reserve program notice CRP-598, entitled the "Voluntary Modification of Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Contract for Critical Feed Use".<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-15:/action/166353 2008-07-15T00:00:00Z A bill to amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, the Egg Products Inspection Act, and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to provide for improved public health and food safety through enhanced enforcement, and for other purposes.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-11:/action/165926 2008-07-11T00:00:00Z A bill to amend the Commodity Exchange Act to provide for the oversight of large trades of over-the-counter energy and agricultural contracts to prevent price manipulation and excessive speculation, and for other purposes.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-10:/action/165861 2008-07-10T00:00:00Z A bill to prohibit the importation of ruminants and swine, and fresh and frozen meat and products of ruminants and swine, from Argentina until the Secretary of Agriculture certifies to Congress that every region of Argentina is free of foot and mouth disease without vaccination.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-10:/action/165885 2008-07-10T00:00:00Z A bill to amend the Commodity Exchange Act to clarify the treatment of purchases of certain commodity futures contracts and financial instruments with respect to limits established by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission relating to excessive speculation, and for other purposes.<br /><br /> tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-10:/action/165893 2008-07-10T00:00:00Z A bill to amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act and the Trade Act of 1974 to authorize advance payments under the supplemental revenue assistance program.<br /><br />