Farm Bill Amendment Update

Here’s a list of the Senate Farm Bill Amendment vote outcomes as of 7:30 last night. Thanks to our friends at NSAC for keeping us up to date! Read their blog post about day one of voting here>>

YES – Akaka #2440 (highly fractionated tribal lands) (possible voice vote);
YES – Snowe #2190 (milk marketing order reform);

YES – Akaka #2396 (tribal relations office);
NO – Ayotte #2192 (value added grants);

YES – Baucus #2429 (Livestock);
WITHDRAWN- Collins #2444 (dairy);

WITHDRAWN – Bingaman #2364 (multi-state aquifers);
YES – Grassley #2167 (pay cap marketing loans);

YES – Brown (OH) #2445 (rural development);
NO – Sessions #2174 (SNAP);

YES – Cantwell #2370 (pulse pilot) (possible voice vote);
YES – Nelson(NE) #2243 (SNAP); (side by side)
NO – Sessions #2172 (SNAP);

YES – Casey #2238 (technical/study-federal milk marketing) (possible voice vote);
NO – Paul #2181 ($250,000 income limit);

YES – Coons #2426 (poultry insurance study) (possible voice vote);
NO – Alexander #2191 (wind loans);

YES – Feinstein #2422 (conservation innovation grants);
YES – McCain #2199 (catfish);

YES – Feinstein #2309 (insurance recall);
NO – Toomey #2217 (organic/AMA);

NO – Gillibrand #2156 (SNAP);
NO – DeMint #2263 (broadband funding);

YES – Hagan #2366 (crop insurance – plain language) (possible voice vote);
NO – DeMint #2262 (SoS Free MKT) (possible voice vote);

These amendments have yet to be voted on:

- Kerry #2187 (commercial fishermen);
- DeMint #2268 (Loan guarantees);

- Landrieu #2321 (rural development loans);
- DeMint #2276 (checkoffs);

- Manchin #2345 (dietary study) (possible voice vote);
- DeMint #2273 (broadband);

- Merkley #2382 (organic crop insurance);
- Coburn #2289 (MAP);

- Schumer #2427 (acer);
- Coburn #2293 (Limit Millionaires);

- Stabenow #2453 (NAP);
- Kerry #2454 (North Korea);
- Kyl #2354 (North Korea);

- Udall(CO) #2295 (bark beetle);
- Lee #2313 (Forest Legacy);

- Warner #2457 (rural broadband);
- Lee #2314 (CSP/CRP cut);

- Wyden #2442 (microloans);
- Boozman #2355 (Ag research, law info) (possible voice vote);;

- Wyden #2388 (farm to school);
- Boozman #2360 (TEFAP)

- Leahy #2204 (rural development);
- Toomey #2226 (energy title);

- Nelson(NE) #2242 (rural housing) (possible voice vote);
- Toomey #2433 (sugar);

- Klobuchar #2299 (transportation study) (possible voice vote);
- Lee Motion to Recommit (FY 2008 levels);

- Carper #2287 (poultry feed research) (possible voice vote);
- Johnson(WI) Motion to Recommit (Nutrition/Agriculture titles);

- Sanders #2254 (biomass);
- Chambliss #2438 (conservation crop insurance);

- Thune #2437 (crop insurance);
- Durbin-Coburn #2439 (crop insurance);
- Chambliss #2340 (sugar);

- Chambliss #2432 (FMPP);
- Ayotte #2195 (GAO crop insurance fraud report) (possible voice vote);

- Blunt #2246 (veterans) (possible voice vote);
- Moran #2403 (food aid);

- Moran #2443 (beginning farmers) (possible voice vote);
- Vitter #2363 (pets) (possible voice vote);

- Toomey #2247 (paperwork) (60-vote threshold);
- Sanders #2310 (genetically engineered food) (60-vote threshold);

- Coburn #2214 (convention funding) (60-vote threshold);
- Boxer #2456 (aerial inspections) (60-vote threshold);
- Johanns #2372 (aerial inspections) (60-vote threshold);

- Murray # 2455(sequestration) (60-vote threshold);
- McCain #2162 (Sequestration report – DoD) (60-vote threshold);

- Rubio #2166 (RAISE Act) (60-vote threshold); and
- Passage of S.3240, as amended.

The Senate is currently in session and may finish the bill before the end of the day. Coming up are amendments by Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) to improve crop insurance coverage for organic farmers, by Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) to relink soil and wetland conservation requirements to the receipt of crop insurance premium subsidies, and by Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Tom Coburn (R-OK) to reduce insurance premium subsidies for millionaires. Stay tuned to the FOG Blog for updates!