101.   The plan would also eliminate the Commerce Department, overhaul welfare and sharply reduce farm programs.

102.   The peanut program is under attack as agriculture committees in the House and Senate try this week to write legislation reforming all federal farm programs.

103.   The next time Buchanan flies into town, ask him what his views on farm programs are, if he has any.

104.   The projected losses include reduced federal payments for Medicare, education, welfare, farm programs and housing.

105.   The package also is criticized as moving farm programs into the category of welfare payments, allowing farmers to collect payments for doing nothing.

106.   The same trends hold true for full-time Agriculture Department workers who help administer the farm programs.

107.   The problem for rice farmers grows out of the ground-breaking farm program designed to phase out government payments altogether.

108.   The Senate Agriculture Committee hearing Thursday will focus on whether Americans are getting what they pay for through the farm programs.

109.   There, the farm programs would face even steeper cuts from urban and free-market lawmakers who for years have sought a chance to slash agriculture subsidies.

110.   These days, it is not Medicare, the Branch Davidians or the debate over cutting back farm programs that provokes the passion of people in rural Texas.