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HRES 706 109th Congress House Agriculture and Food Agricultural subsidies Congress Disaster relief Emergency Management Legislation

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should enact legislation to provide direct emergency assistance to American farmers who were adversely affected by natural disasters…

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Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should enact legislation to provide direct emergency assistance to American farmers who were adversely affected by natural disasters and unforeseen production costs during the 2005 crop year.

Introduced: March 2, 2006 See on congress.gov
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Mar 2, 2006
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Mar 2, 2006
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should enact legislation to assist American farmers adversely affected by natural disasters and unforeseen production costs during the 2005 crop year and that such legislation should give farmers a choice of a supplemental direct payment or yield-loss disaster payments.

What's happening now March 2, 2006

Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 16
All 16 Democratic 4 Republican 3
ORTIZ, SOLOMON
· Mar 30, 2006
SNYDER, VICTOR
· Mar 30, 2006
 R
Wicker, Roger F.
Mississippi · Mar 30, 2006
 D
Bishop, Sanford D.
Georgia · Mar 2, 2006
 R
Boozman, John
Arkansas · Mar 2, 2006
 D
Cuellar, Henry
Texas · Mar 2, 2006
Davis, Artur
· Mar 2, 2006
 D
DeLauro, Rosa L.
Connecticut · Mar 2, 2006
EDWARDS, CHET
· Mar 2, 2006
ETHERIDGE, BOB
· Mar 2, 2006
 R
Graves, Sam
Missouri · Mar 2, 2006
 D
Kaptur, Marcy
Ohio · Mar 2, 2006
Marshall, Jim
· Mar 2, 2006
Melancon, Charlie
· Mar 2, 2006
Salazar, John
· Mar 2, 2006
TAYLOR, GENE
· Mar 2, 2006
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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H. Res. 706: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should enact legislation to provide direct emergency assistance to American farmers who were adversely affected by natural disasters and unforeseen production costs during the 2005 crop year.. 109th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HRES-706/
MLA
"H. Res. 706: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should enact legislation to provide direct emergency assistance to American farmers who were adversely affected by natural disasters and unforeseen production costs during the 2005 crop year.." 109th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HRES-706/.
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H. Res. 706, 109th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HRES-706/.
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[H. Res. 706: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress should enact legislation to provide direct emergency assistance to American farmers who were adversely affected by natural disasters and unforeseen production costs during the 2005 crop year.](https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HRES-706/)
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