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 and unforeseen production costs during the 2005 crop year.
Introduced: March 2, 2006
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Everywhere this bill has been
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Became law
Mar 2, 2006
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Mar 2, 2006
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
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
Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
Committees of jurisdiction
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