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Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1992

Public Law 102-142 · H.R. 2698 · 102nd Congress · began in the House

Signed by George H. W. Bush (R) on Oct 28, 1991 · Economics and Public Finance

Sponsor: Rep. Jamie Whitten (D-MS-1)

Cosponsors: None

Passage votesYeaNay

  • HouseVoice vote
  • SenateRecorded vote: 88 yea, 10 nay88–10
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Summary

The Congressional Research Service’s plain-language summary of what the law does.

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1992 - Title I: Agricultural Programs - Appropriates funds for FY 1992 for the following programs and services: (1) Office of the Secretary of Agriculture; (2) Office of the Deputy Secretary of Agriculture; (3) Office of Budget and Program Analysis; (4) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration; (5) Departmental Administration; (6) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations; (7) Office of Public Affairs; (8) Office of the Inspector General; (9) Office of the General Counsel; (10) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Economics; (11) Economic Research Service; (12) National Agricultural Statistics Service; (13) World Agricultural Outlook Board; (14) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Science and Education; (15) Agricultural Research Service; (16) Cooperative State Research Service; (17) Extension Service; (18) National Agricultural Library; (19) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Marketing and Inspection Services; (20) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; (21) Food Safety and Inspection Service; (22) Federal Grain Inspection Service; (23) Agricultural Cooperative Service; (24) Agricultural Marketing Service; (25) Packers and Stockyards Administration; (26) Office of the Under Secretary for International Affairs and Commodity Programs; (27) Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service; (28) Federal Crop Insurance Corporation; and (29) Commodity Credit Corporation Fund.

Title II: Conservation Programs - Appropriates funds for: (1) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment; (2) Soil Conservation Service; and (3) Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service. Limits funds use for the Wetlands Reserve Program to not more than 50,000 acres of FY 1992 enrollment.

Title III: Farmers Home and Rural Development Programs - Appropriates funds for: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Small Community and Rural Development; (2) Farmers Home Administration; (3) Rural Electrification Administration; and (4) Office of the Administrator of the Rural Electrification Administration.

Title IV: Domestic Food Programs - Appropriates funds for: (1) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Food and Consumer Services; (2) Food and Nutrition Service, including the Food Stamp Program and the farmers market coupon demonstration program under the special supplemental food program for women, infants and children (WIC); and (3) Human Nutrition Information Service.

Title V: Foreign Assistance and Related Programs - Appropriates funds for: (1) Foreign Agricultural Service including Ameri Flora '92 Exposition; (2) Public Law 480 Program Account; (3) Commodity Credit Corporation; (4) Commodity Credit Corporation Export Loans Program Account; (5) Office of International Cooperation and Development; and (6) Scientific Activities Overseas.

Title VI: Related Agencies and Food and Drug Administration - Appropriates funds for: (1) Food and Drug Administration; (2) Farm Credit System Financial Assistance Corporation; (3) Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and (4) Farm Credit Administration.

Amends the Saccharin Study and Labeling Act to extend through May 1, 1997, the moratorium on the authority of the Secretary of Health and Human Services with respect to saccharin.

Title VII: General Provisions - Specifies certain uses and limits on or prohibitions against the use of funds appropriated by this Act.

Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to initiate construction on not less than 20 new projects under the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act and not less than five new projects under the Flood Control Act.

Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to relocate the Hawaii State Office of the Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) from Hilo, Hawaii, to Honolulu, Hawaii.

Prohibits employee reductions below specified levels for the FmHA, the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, the Rural Electrification Administration, the Soil Conservation Service, and the Food and Drug Administration.

Prohibits the funds available under this Act to be used to exclude from certain assistance any crop of valencia oranges damaged or destroyed by freeze or related conditions in 1990.

Makes available until expended obligations for: (1) the reserve fund for the Grasshopper and Mormon Cricket Control Programs; and (2) the Office of International Cooperation and Development, Middle-Income Country Training Program.

Defers obligation of specified Market Promotion Program funds until September 30, 1992.

Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to extend through FY 1992: (1) rural rental housing loan authority; and (2) rural mutual and self-help housing grant and loan authority.

Who voted for it

Every senator of the 102nd Congress on the ideology compass. Highlighted: the 88 who voted yea on final passage. Faded: everyone else, including those who voted nay, did not vote, or had not yet taken office.

88 yea10 nay2 present or did not vote

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Democrats who voted yea(52)

  • Sen. Paul WellstoneD-MN
  • Sen. Howard MetzenbaumD-OH
  • Sen. Brock AdamsD-WA
  • Sen. Tom HarkinD-IA
  • Sen. Paul SarbanesD-MD
  • Sen. Ted KennedyD-MA
  • Sen. James SasserD-TN
  • Sen. Paul SimonD-IL
  • Sen. Donald RiegleD-MI
  • Sen. Alan CranstonD-CA
  • Sen. Frank LautenbergD-NJ
  • Sen. Patrick LeahyD-VT
  • Sen. John KerryD-MA
  • Sen. Bill BradleyD-NJ
  • Sen. Joseph BidenD-DE
  • Sen. Jay RockefellerD-WV
  • Sen. Kent ConradD-ND
  • Sen. George MitchellD-ME
  • Sen. Tom DaschleD-SD
  • Sen. Carl LevinD-MI
  • Sen. Albert GoreD-TN
  • Sen. Daniel AkakaD-HI
  • Sen. Quentin BurdickD-ND
  • Sen. Barbara MikulskiD-MD
  • Sen. Robert ByrdD-WV
  • Sen. Wyche FowlerD-GA
  • Sen. Daniel MoynihanD-NY
  • Sen. Max BaucusD-MT
  • Sen. Jeff BingamanD-NM
  • Sen. Dale BumpersD-AR
  • Sen. James SanfordD-NC
  • Sen. Dennis DeConciniD-AZ
  • Sen. Robert KerreyD-NE
  • Sen. John GlennD-OH
  • Sen. Wendell FordD-KY
  • Sen. Christopher DoddD-CT
  • Sen. Daniel InouyeD-HI
  • Sen. Herb KohlD-WI
  • Sen. Harry ReidD-NV
  • Sen. James ExonD-NE
  • Sen. Richard BryanD-NV
  • Sen. Lloyd BentsenD-TX
  • Sen. Samuel NunnD-GA
  • Sen. Bob GrahamD-FL
  • Sen. Joseph LiebermanD-CT
  • Sen. John JohnstonD-LA
  • Sen. Fritz HollingsD-SC
  • Sen. Charles RobbD-VA
  • Sen. John BreauxD-LA
  • Sen. David BorenD-OK
  • Sen. Howell HeflinD-AL
  • Sen. Richard ShelbyD-AL

Republicans who voted yea(36)

  • Sen. Jim JeffordsR-VT
  • Sen. Mark HatfieldR-OR
  • Sen. Arlen SpecterR-PA
  • Sen. Robert PackwoodR-OR
  • Sen. John ChafeeR-RI
  • Sen. William CohenR-ME
  • Sen. David DurenbergerR-MN
  • Sen. Alfonse D’AmatoR-NY
  • Sen. John DanforthR-MO
  • Sen. Nancy KassebaumR-KS
  • Sen. Robert KastenR-WI
  • Sen. Ted StevensR-AK
  • Sen. Slade GortonR-WA
  • Sen. John WarnerR-VA
  • Sen. Chuck GrassleyR-IA
  • Sen. Pete DomeniciR-NM
  • Sen. Kit BondR-MO
  • Sen. Thad CochranR-MS
  • Sen. John SeymourR-CA
  • Sen. Frank MurkowskiR-AK
  • Sen. John McCainR-AZ
  • Sen. Alan SimpsonR-WY
  • Sen. Mitch McConnellR-KY
  • Sen. Richard LugarR-IN
  • Sen. Strom ThurmondR-SC
  • Sen. Conrad BurnsR-MT
  • Sen. Larry PresslerR-SD
  • Sen. Orrin HatchR-UT
  • Sen. Daniel CoatsR-IN
  • Sen. Robert DoleR-KS
  • Sen. Trent LottR-MS
  • Sen. Connie MackR-FL
  • Sen. Don NicklesR-OK
  • Sen. Phil GrammR-TX
  • Sen. Larry CraigR-ID
  • Sen. Steven SymmsR-ID
Data notes

The Senate’s recorded vote on the final version of the law (roll call 223 in Voteview), matched to the vote the record cites and checked against its totals. Positions are each member’s DW-NOMINATE score for that Congress, as on the Ideology page; left to right is more liberal to more conservative. Paired and announced yea votes count as yea. Lists follow the compass, most liberal first. A name links to a profile only for members of the current Congress. A law passed by voice vote or unanimous consent has no member list, and neither does a vote Voteview has not yet recorded.

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Committees

The committees the bill was sent to, and what each did with it.

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Timeline

From introduction to signing, newest first: the committees, the floor and the president. 95 actions.

  1. Oct 28, 1991Became lawBecame law · Became Public Law No: 102-142.
  2. Became lawBecame law · Signed by President.
  3. Oct 18, 1991PresidentPresident · Presented to President.
  4. Oct 16, 1991Resolving differencesResolving differences · Senate agreed to the House amendment to Senate amendments 25, 27, 34, 35, 36, 48, 49, 50, 52, 63, 64, 70, 83, 88, 103, 107, 108, 156, 176, 177, 184, 205, and 241 by Voice Vote.
  5. Resolving differencesResolving differences · Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 88-10. Record Vote No: 223.Senate roll call 223
  6. Resolving differencesResolving differences · Conference report agreed to in Senate: Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 88-10. Record Vote No: 223.Senate roll call 223
  7. Oct 8, 1991Resolving differencesResolving differences · Conference papers: message on House action held at the desk in Senate.
  8. Resolving differencesResolving differences · On motion that the House recede and concur with amendment in the Senate amendment No. 241 Agreed to without objection.
  9. Resolving differencesResolving differences · Motions to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
  10. Resolving differencesResolving differences · On motion that the House recede and concur with amendment in the Senate amendment No. 205 Agreed to without objection.
  11. Resolving differencesResolving differences · Mr. Whitten moved that the House recede and concur with an amendment in the Senate amendment No. 241.
  12. Resolving differencesResolving differences · Mr. Whitten moved that the House recede and concur with an amendment in the Senate amendment No. 205.
  13. Resolving differencesResolving differences · On motion that the House recede and concur with amendment in the Senate amendment No. 184 Agreed to without objection.
  14. Resolving differencesResolving differences · On motion that the House recede and concur with amendment in the Senate amendment No. 177 Agreed to without objection.
  15. Resolving differencesResolving differences · Mr. Whitten moved that the House recede and concur with an amendment in the Senate amendment No. 184.
  16. Resolving differencesResolving differences · On motion that the House recede and concur with amendment in the Senate amendment No. 176 Agreed to without objection.
  17. Resolving differencesResolving differences · Mr. Whitten moved that the House recede and concur with an amendment in the Senate amendment No. 177.
  18. Resolving differencesResolving differences · Mr. Whitten moved that the House recede and concur with an amendment in the Senate amendment No. 176.
  19. Resolving differencesResolving differences · On motion that the House recede and concur with amendment in the Senate amendment No. 156 Agreed to without objection.
  20. Resolving differencesResolving differences · On motion that the House recede and concur with amendment in the Senate amendment No. 108 Agreed to without objection.
  21. Resolving differencesResolving differences · Mr. Natcher moved that the House recede and concur with an amendment in the Senate amendment No. 156.
  22. Resolving differencesResolving differences · On motion that the House recede and concur with amendment in the Senate amendment No. 107 Agreed to without objection.
  23. Resolving differencesResolving differences · Mr. Natcher moved that the House recede and concur with an amendment in the Senate amendment No. 108.
  24. Resolving differencesResolving differences · On motion that the House recede and concur with amendment in the Senate amendment No. 103 Agreed to without objection.
  25. Resolving differencesResolving differences · Mr. Natcher moved that the House recede and concur with an amendment in the Senate amendment No. 107.
  26. Resolving differencesResolving differences · On motion that the House recede and concur with amendment in the Senate amendment No. 88 Agreed to without objection.
  27. Resolving differencesResolving differences · Mr. Natcher moved that the House recede and concur with an amendment in the Senate amendment No. 103.
  28. Resolving differencesResolving differences · On motion that the House recede and concur with amendment in the Senate amendment No. 83 Agreed to without objection.
  29. Resolving differencesResolving differences · Mr. Natcher moved that the House recede and concur with an amendment in the Senate amendment No. 88.
  30. Resolving differencesResolving differences · On motion that the House recede and concur with amendment in the Senate amendment No. 70 Agreed to without objection.
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Official record

The bill’s full text and every action, including introduction and committee steps, are on Congress.gov. Data through Oct 7, 2026.