This page contains letters signed by elected officials, usually written to the President or relevant members of Congress.

01-NGA20 on May 25, 2001

Attached is NGA’s statement [in which] we provide our comments to the Draft Farm Bill Concept Paper and the general recommendations of the Governors on the 2002 Farm Bill. They include:
• support for farmer assistance programs that provide the maximum amount of flexibility to producers and that include counter-cyclical assistance;
• recommendations to include incentives for working lands conservation and to strengthen states’ role in the delivery of resource conservation dollars;
• simplification of state level program operations of the Food Stamp Program; and
• recommendations to the rural development programs within the farm bill.

• Topic: Jobs
• Headline: Full review of farm policy; more state flexibility
  
  
• Key for participation codes:
• Sponsorships: p=sponsored; o=co-sponsored; s=signed
• Memberships: c=chair; m=member; e=endorsed; f=profiled; s=scored
• Resolutions: i=introduced; w=wrote; a=adopted
• Cases: w=wrote; j=joined; d=dissented; c=concurred
• Surveys: '+' supports; '-' opposes.