31.   For every dollar given away in tax cuts, they said, another dollar must be cut from Medicare, education, farm programs or some other government activity.

32.   For the future, Armey promotes his ideas for cutting government, scrapping the current income tax system, overhauling farm programs and reducing regulations.

33.   Foreign aid has no U.S. constituency in the way farmers support farm programs and the elderly defend Social Security and Medicare, Hall said.

34.   From their beginnings, the rationale behind federal farm programs was sociological as well as economic.

35.   Gekas noted that Pennsylvania farmers have not been as vulnerable to price fluctuations, and dependent on federal farm programs, as growers in other states.

36.   Gingrich was asked about the future of farm programs in a recent TV interview.

37.   Gramm was in Louisiana on Tuesday when the Senate fell one vote short of moving toward final passage of a bill to reauthorize federal farm programs.

38.   Glickman disagreed with some Senate Democrats who say the Republican bill, or even the bipartisan bill now being written, means the death knell for government farm programs.

39.   He said farm programs sometimes increase pesticide use and affect wetlands.

40.   His recommendation will now serve as the starting point for negotiations with Congress to hammer out a final budget-cutting package for farm programs after the Thanksgiving recess.